ACC Utilities Reference Guide

ZMASTERD - Daemon Monitoring Feature
Overview
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Overview
The ACC ZCOM subsystem requires the use of daemon programs to
provide its features. For example, the logging facility requires the zmlog
daemon. For the multinode processing feature, the znode daemon is
required. Other protocol accessory products to the ACC Mux subsystem
product may also require daemon programs, for example, the X.25
Protocol module and the ACC X.25/9000 Link Software require the use of
the zx25d_init daemon.
A monitoring feature, zmasterd, is provided with the ACC Mux
subsystem to help manage these daemons. This monitoring feature may
be used to start up the daemons, monitor them, and restart them in the
case that they terminate. It can also be used to gracefully shutdown
these daemons.
It is important to note that zmasterd may only be used to manage
daemons that are provided with the ACC Mux Subsystem products.
Although the ACC daemons may be started directly as documented in
their respective documentation, this is strongly discouraged. It is
recommended that zmasterd always be used to start-up and shutdown
the ZCOM subsystem.