OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Managing Your Cell Name

dcecp> cellalias create /.../polyline.goodco.com

2. Use a cellalias set operation to set the new name to be the primary cell name.

This operation modiﬁes the new cell principal name so that it’s not an alias and

performs a registry verify operation to ensure that all the replicas are up-to-date.

Next, it uses the cdsalias object to set the alias name in CDS to be the primary cell

name and synchronizes the CDS replicas. Finally, it performs a hostdata

operation on each host in the cell, interchanging the values stored in the cell_name

and cell_aliases data items respectively.

The following example sets the new alias name, /.../polyline.goodco.com, to be the

primary cell name. The old cell name (/.../sales.goodco.com) becomes a cell alias

name.

dcecp> cellalias set /.../polyline.goodco.com

6.3 Modifying or Extending the cellalias Object

The cellalias task object is implemented as a script so that administrators can modify or

extend it on a per-site basis. Here are a few examples of possible modiﬁcations or

extensions you can make:

• Extend the script to create hierarchical cells. Chapter 21 describes the procedure to

create a hierarchy of cells.

• Add a -verbose option to display the results of each step as it completes.

Part 1 of this guide discusses ways to create new dcecp objects or modify existing

objects written with the dcecp language.

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