OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

Contents

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Preface .......................... xxiii

Audience .................... xxiii

Applicability ................... xxiii

Purpose .................... xxiii

Document Usage ................. xxiii

Related Documents ................. xxiv

Typographic and Keying Conventions ........... xxiv

Problem Reporting ................. xxv

Pathnames of Directories and Files in DCE Documentation ..... xxv

Part 1. DCE Facilities

Chapter 1. Introduction to DCE Facilities ................ 1-1

Chapter 2. DCE Host Services ................... 2-1

2.1 Types of Applications ................ 2-2

2.2 Issues of Distributed Applications ............ 2-2

2.3 Managing a Host’s Endpoint Map ............. 2-3

2.4 Binding to dced’s Services ............... 2-4

2.4.1 Host Service Naming in Applications ......... 2-5

2.4.2 The dced Programs Maintains Entry Lists ........ 2-6

2.4.3 Reading All of a Host Service’s Data ......... 2-8

2.4.4 Managing Individual dced Entries .......... 2-10

2.5 Managing Hostdata on a Remote Host ........... 2-13

2.5.1 Kinds of Hostdata Stored ............ 2-13

2.5.2 Adding New Hostdata ............. 2-13

2.5.3 Modifying Hostdata .............. 2-15

2.5.4 Running Programs Automatically When Hostdata

Changes ................. 2-15

2.6 Controlling Servers Remotely .............. 2-17

2.6.1 Two States of Server Management: Conﬁguration and

Execution ................. 2-18

2.6.2 Conﬁguring Servers .............. 2-19

2.6.3 Starting and Stopping Servers ........... 2-22

2.6.4 Enabling and Disabling Services of a Server ....... 2-23

2.7 Validating the Security Server .............. 2-24

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