OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Chapter 24. Planning Your DTS Implementation
This chapter describes how to plan your DCE DTS implementation, including personnel
selection for the planning process and planning for DTS on a LAN, an extended LAN, or
a WAN. DTS installation is described in the , so installation considerations are only
included in this chapter by reference. It is important to note, however, that many of the
planning considerations for DTS are tied to the overall planning of DCE, especially the
CDS and Security components. (See the for background information on the
interdependencies among the DCE components.)
24.1 The DTS Planning Team
Two main categories of personnel interact with the DTS software: system managers and
applications programmers. Programmers do not usually need to be involved in the
planning stages of the DTS implementation. If you are writing a program to import a
source of UTC time into the service, however, you may wish to locate the time-provider
at the server that is closest to the programmer. Close proximity to the time-provider
helps the programmer when testing the software application with the time-provider
hardware.
System managers or network architects usually plan the DTS implementation. They
decide which nodes are servers and which are clerks, and they decide how the DTS
implementation grows with the network. DTS is scalable for large networks so that
expanding an implementation to include new nodes is relatively simple.
System managers also install the software and maintain DTS. As the network grows,
system managers ensure that the service is running with acceptable accuracy and install
new servers, time-providers, and clerks.
24.2 General Planning Guidelines
Consider the following questions as you plan your DTS implementation:
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