Installing and Administering OSI Transport Services

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HP OTS/9000 Conﬁguration Files

To Create A New File Set

Multiple Conﬁguration Diagram

The following numbers refer to “Multiple Conﬁguration Sets.”

1. The OTS tools (osiadmin, osiconf, osiconfchk), by default, manipulate

the active conﬁguration ﬁle set. They can also manipulate alternate

conﬁguration ﬁles sets which are not active.

2. The active conﬁguration ﬁles set can reside in any directory. By

default it is located in /etc/opt/ots/conf directory unless the

OSI_CONFIG environment variable is set, in which case the active

conﬁguration ﬁle set is speciﬁed by this variable.

3. The otsstart/otsupdate tools provide the startup/dynamic

reconﬁguration functions of OTS. These tools retrieve conﬁguration

information from the active ﬁle set, either the default directory or the

directory referenced by OSI_CONFIG.

4. The conﬁguration snapshot contains encoded copies of the current

conﬁguration ﬁles as they were at the last time oststart or otsupdate

was successfully executed. The running stack or services consult

these binary ﬁles for conﬁguration information. These ﬁles are only

updated when the next restart/update takes place. This means that

the ASCII ﬁles can be changed without affecting the running

software.

Checking OSI_CONFIG Current Value

To check the value in the OSI_CONFIG environmental variable use:

$ env | grep OSI_CONFIG

If this variable is not set, you will just see your system prompt.

How the OTS Nodal Management Tools Use

OSI_CONFIG

osiadmin Will view active conﬁguration ﬁles sets for OTS and

FTAM based on the value in the OSI_CONFIG

environment variable.

osiconf Provides a menu-driven screen interface to create or

modify OTS conﬁguration information. osiconf defaults

to the active ﬁle set based on the value in

OSI_CONFIG environment variable. osiconf will also

allow you to specify the directory of an alternate ﬁle set