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Managing TCP/IP Services
This chapter reviews information you need to get started with the TCP/IP
Services software. Topics include:
• Reviewing pertinent databases, logical names, and configuration guidelines
(Section 1.1).
• Enabling support for DECnet over TCP/IP, and PATHWORKS (Advanced
Server) (Section 1.2).
• Creating user accounts and proxy identities (Section 1.3).
• Configuring TCP/IP Services on an OpenVMS cluster (Section 1.4).
• Starting services with the auxiliary server (Section 1.5).
1.1 Getting Started
This manual assumes you installed and configured TCP/IP Services software with
the configuration procedure SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG.COM, as described
in the Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Installation and Configuration
manual. This menu-driven procedure configures the software components you
select or all of the TCP/IP Services software components. The ‘‘out-of-the-box’’
defaults are designed to get your system up and running as an internet host with
minimal effort.
TCPIP$CONFIG creates the database files listed in Table 1–1.
Table 1–1 Configuration Databases
Database File Name
BOOTP database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$BOOTP.DAT
Configuration database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$CONFIGURATION.DAT
Export database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$EXPORT.DAT
Hosts database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$HOST.DAT
Networks database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$NETWORK.DAT
Proxy database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$PROXY.DAT
Routes database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$ROUTE.DAT
Services database SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]TCPIP$SERVICE.DAT
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