OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Chapter 15. Managing the DCE Directory
Service
The DCE control program (dcecp) provides most of the commands you need to manage
CDS. This chapter describes the CDS entities that the DCE control program permits you
to manage and summarizes the available commands for managing these entities.
A few CDS management tasks cannot be performed using dcecp. To perform these
tasks, you need to use the CDS control program (cdscp). This chapter provides some
information that you need to run cdscp and notes the operations for which the program’s
commands are required.
For detailed descriptions of dcecp and cdscp commands discussed in this chapter, see the
dcecp(8dce) and cdscp(8cds) reference pages.
15.1 Using the DCE Control Program
Chapter 1 of this guide introduced you to dcecp and its command syntax, so this chapter
does not repeat this information. This chapter describes the commands that dcecp
supplies specifically for managing CDS.
15.1.1 CDSManaged Objects
DCE control program commands operate on the following objects representing CDS
entities:
directory This object represents a CDS directory. The directory can be a
parent or child directory, or a master or read-only replica of the
parent or child directory. In addition to child directories, a CDS
directory can contain soft links and object entries for other CDS
resources.
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