NIO CommKit Host Interface Installation and System Administration Manual

4-2
Administering the CommKit Software and the STREAMS Listener
Description
Description
With Release 4.x of the NIO CommKit Host Interface, you can start and stop
the CommKit servers in several ways. If you are accustomed to using /etc/rc
to start and stop the servers, you should now use the current HP-UX startup
paradigm, because /etc/rc no longer exists.
However, if you use dkitrc to start and stop the servers, you can continue to
use it, because dkitrc works as before. If you start or stop the CommKit
server from the command line, you must start dkdaemon before you start the
server.
The system administration tasks that you will perform on a CommKit
network include
• Starting and stopping the CommKit server
• Maintaining the server database, srvtab
• Maintaining the dkhosts and dkdotab files
• Starting and stopping the TLI Listener and maintaining its database
• Editing startup scripts to automate the startup of the CommKit server and the TLI
listener
• Administering the outgoing connections if you use multiple boards
• Cleaning up files and directories
Each of these tasks is described in this chapter. You may also want to refer to
the manual pages for the dkdaemon(1M), dkserver(1M), srvtab(4),
dkhosts(4), and dkdotab(4) commands, which are available online and also
in Appendix E of this manual.