ONC+ Release Notes

ONC+ Release Notes
Announcement
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Announcement
Open Network Computing (ONC) is a technology that comprises core services. The core
services enable administrators to implement distributed applications in a heterogeneous
distributed computing environment. It also includes tools to administer clients and servers.
ONC consists of the following components:
• Network File System
The Network File System (NFS) is a distributed filesystem that provides transparent
access to files and directories that are shared on remote systems.
• AutoFS
AutoFS is a client-side service that enables automatic mounting and unmounting of
filesystems.
•CacheFS
The Cache Filesystem (CacheFS) is a general purpose filesystem caching mechanism that
improves the performance of client side applications when dealing with slow NFS servers
or a slow network. By caching the data to a fast local file system instead of going over the
wire, the client sees increased performance. This results in reduced server and network
load and thus improves NFS response time and scalability.
• Network Information Service
The Network Information Service (NIS), previously called “Yellow Pages,” is a distributed
database system that enables the maintenance of commonly used configuration
information on a master server, and propagates the information to all the hosts in the
network.
Following are the documents available for ONC:
• NFS Services Administrator’s Guide
• NIS Administrator’s Guide
These documents will be available on March 16th 2007 at:
http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#NFS%20Services