OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Chapter 9. Managing DCE Conﬁgurations

This chapter describes how to use those dce_conﬁg functions that help you manage the

installation and conﬁguration process. These functions are as follows:

• START—To re-start DCE daemons

• STOP—To stop DCE daemons

• UNCONFIGURE—To remove entries for a conﬁgured client machine from the CDS

namespace and from the Security database, essentially removing the client machine

from the cell. Likewise to remove a CDS server, GDA server, or replica Security

server from the cell.

• REMOVE—To stop DCE daemons and remove any data ﬁles created by those

daemons

The STOP and START functions provide convenient ways to stop and stop all DCE

daemons. The UNCONFIGURE and REMOVE functions allow you to return a

machine to its state before it was conﬁgured, in effect reversing the effects of the

conﬁguration.

Note that during an install and during a conﬁguration, you are prompted for whether or

not to remove the remnants of a previous conﬁguration. If you do, it has the same

effects as running the REMOVE function described in this chapter.

The instructions given in this chapter assume that you have installed and are using the

administrative utilities and other tools provided in DCE R1.1. The use of programs

supplied in earlier versions of DCE can cause problems or prevent you from doing what

you want to do.

The remainder of this chapter takes you through the steps to use the START, STOP,

UNCONFIGURE and REMOVE functions. All the functions are chosen from the

DCE Main Menu, described in Chapter 6. With the exception of the UNCONFIGURE

function, which can be run on a remote machine, all functions described in the chapter

must be run on the local machine.

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