OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Chapter 5. Overview of DCE Maintenance

Once you have performed the tasks required for planning, installing, and conﬁguring

your DCE system, you can go on to perform the tasks required for maintaining the

system. The initial tasks of planning, installing, and conﬁguring are performed

infrequently, some only once. Maintenance tasks, however, are performed on a regular

basis throughout the lifetime of your system.

Maintenance of a distributed system includes the following areas:

• Performance tuning

• Conﬁguration control

• Security and access control

This chapter summarizes some of the primary DCE administration tasks. The ﬁrst

section of this chapter tells you how to start up DCE. The remaining sections describe

tasks that apply to the individual components of DCE. DCE component tasks are

documented in detail in the , , and .

5.1 Starting Up DCE

The dce_conﬁg script, which is described in Chapters 6, 7, and 8, creates an /etc/rc.dce

ﬁle to start up the DCE processes. This ﬁle is customized to an individual machine’s

conﬁguration. To start up the DCE processes, enter the following command:

sh /etc/rc.dce

5.2 Changing the Network Address of a DCE Machine

Occasionally, a machine running DCE will need to change its network address. DCE

stores the network address in several ﬁles which need to be updated. To change a DCE

machine’s network address, you must perform the following procedure:

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