OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Managing Clerks, Servers, and Clearinghouses
17.3 Displaying the Contents of a Clearinghouse
Use the dcecp clearinghouse show command with the -clear option and specify the
CDS_CHDirectories attribute to display the directory names of all the directories that
are stored in a particular clearinghouse. For example, to display the names of the
directories that are stored in the clearinghouse /.:/Chicago2_CH, you enter the following
command:
dcecp> clearinghouse show /.:/Chicago2_CH CDS_CHDirectories -clear
(See Chapter 19 for more examples of displaying clearinghouse information.)
17.4 Forcing the Clearinghouse to Checkpoint to Disk
Under normal operations, the server will periodically checkpoint the clearinghouse from
memory to disk. However, you can perform this task immediately by having write
permission to the server and entering the dcecp clearinghouse initiate command with
the checkpoint option. For example, to checkpoint the clearinghouse /.:/Boston3_CH
from memory to disk, you enter the following command:
dcecp> clearinghouse initiate /.:/Boston3_CH -checkpoint
17.5 Disabling Clerks and Servers
You may occasionally have to disable the clerk or server that is running on a particular
system when you need to perform diagnostic or troubleshooting work that requires active
clerk or server processes to be suspended. Usually, you can use the dce_config procedure
to start and stop DCE daemons. You can disable CDS clerks and servers by using the
disable clerk and disable server commands of cdscp.
17.5.1 Disabling a Clerk
To disable the clerk that is on the local node, enter the following command:
cdscp> disable clerk
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