OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Managing the DCE DST

25.4 Temporarily Reconﬁguring DTS

From time to time, a situation or problem may arise in your network that requires you to

temporarily reconﬁgure DTS on one or more nodes. Perhaps a node in the LAN is

having problems and you need to have another node take over the clerk or server role of

the problem node. Rather than adding an unnecessary server or clerk to the network, you

can convert the clerk or server so that it plays the needed role.

If you convert a clerk or server, the change is only temporary. When DCE is stopped and

restarted on a node, the node will revert to its initial DTS conﬁguration. A node that was

initially conﬁgured as a DTS server will become a server; a node that was initially

conﬁgured as a DTS clerk will become a clerk. In order to permanently change the DTS

conﬁguration on a node, you must run the dce_conﬁg script as discussed in Section 25.3.

To temporarily convert a clerk to a server, or visa versa, perform these steps:

1. Stop the clerk or server process that is currently executing on the node by using the

dcecp dts stop command:

dcecp> dts stop

After you stop the clerk or server, quit dcecp.

2. Restart the DTS daemon on the node as a clerk or server by executing the dtsd

command with the appropriate option (the -c option for a clerk or the -s option for

a server). For example, to create a local server, enter the following command:

dtsd -s

The example command creates a local server that is a backup courier (the server’s

courierrole attribute value is set to backup by default). If desired, you can

designate another courier role for the server in the dtsd command line by using the

command’s -k option. Other than a backup courier, the local server created in the

example can be a courier (courier) or cannot have any courier role (noncourier).

In the following example, the local server is given the role of a courier:

dtsd -s -k courier

To create a global server, you enter the dtsd command with the -g option:

dtsd -s -g

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