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DCE Application Administration

If you are installing and conﬁguring the server and client parts of an application, make a

note of the server’s entry name when you conﬁgure the server.

If you are not installing or conﬁguring the server (for instance, the server was previously

installed), you might need to do some detective work to determine the name to use.

There are several places you can look.

If a server uses the server control facility described earlier in this chapter, you can

probably use a dcecp server show operation to reveal its entry name. Of course, this

means you need to know the server’s object name on the host where the server resides.

You can see all of the server object names on a host by using a server catalog operation.

The following example lists all the server objects conﬁgured on host silver. The server

show operation reveals the entry name used by the info_server program.

dcecp> server catalog /.:/hosts/silver

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/silver/config/srvrconf/video_clip

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/silver/config/srvrconf/info_server

dcecp> server show /.:/hosts/silver/conﬁg/info_server

{uuid 6d5e7184-71b7-11cd-a205-08000925634b}

{program {/usr/local/bin/infosrv}}

{arguments {-brief}}

{prerequisites {}}

{keytabs {}}

{entryname {/.:/subsys/applications/info_server_1}}

{services {}}

{principals {}}

{starton {explicit failure}}

{uid 1423}

{gid 1000}

{dir {/tmp}}

If a server starts from a boot program or script of some kind, look in the program or script

for the name or names (sometimes servers use multiple names when they export multiple

interfaces). The name might be supplied as an argument to the command that starts the

server, as in the following example:

infosrv /.:/finance/operations/infoserv

When the server side does not easily reveal its entry name, try to determine what entry

other client programs are using. Client programs frequently start from a boot program or

script of some kind, and entry names are generally provided as arguments to the

command to start the client. These commands often follow the same model shown in the

previous example of the server startup command.

10.5.2 Providing the Entry Name to Clients

Sometimes, very simple clients can have the server entry name encoded within them so

you don’t have to pass any entry name. But more often, you need to supply an entry

name to a client program when it starts. This approach is more ﬂexible than hardcoding

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