OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Preface

The OSF DCE Administration Guide provides concepts and procedures that enable

you to manage the OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). Basic OSF

DCE terms are introduced throughout the guide. A glossary for all of the DCE

documentation is provided in the Introduction to OSF DCE. The Introduction to OSF

DCE helps you to gain a high-level understanding of the DCE technologies and

describes the documentation set that supports DCE.

Audience

This guide is written for system and network administrators who have previously

administered a UNIX environment.

Applicability

This is Revision 1.1 of this guide. It applies to the OSF DCE Version 1.1 offering and

related updates. (See your software license for details.)

Purpose

The purpose of this guide is to help system and network administrators to plan, conﬁgure,

and manage DCE. After reading the guide, you will understand what the system

administrator needs to do to plan for DCE. Once you have built the DCE source code on

your system, use this guide to assist you in installing executable ﬁles and conﬁguring

DCE. The OSF DCE Release Notes contain instructions for installing and building

DCE source code.

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