OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Chapter 25. Managing the DCE DST
This chapter describes management tasks that you perform for the DCE DTS. The DCE
control program (dcecp) has commands that you can use for performing these tasks. The
chapter contains brief descriptions of these commands. Detailed descriptions of the
commands appear in the OSF DCE Administration Reference.
Prior to the creation of dcecp, the DTS control program (dtscp) was used to manage
DTS. You can still use this control program, but all of its operations have been
incorporated into dcecp. Again, you can refer to the OSF DCE Administration
Reference for detailed descriptions of dtscp commands for manging DTS.
25.1 Using the DCE Control Program
Since detailed information about dcecp and its command syntax appears in Chapter 1 of
this guide, this chapter does not repeat the information. It describes only the commands
that dcecp provides specifically for managing DTS.
The dcecp commands for DTS perform various operations on objects representing
components of the service. For example, the dts stop command stops the server or clerk
on the local node. The following subsections describe the DTS objects that dcecp
operates on and the types of operations that the control program can perform on these
objects.
25.1.1 DTSObjects
The DCE control program has functions that operate on the following DTS objects:
• dts
This object represents either of the following:
— A local or global server that supplies the time to client applications and systems
in a distributed computing environment.
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