Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.7

Planning and Conﬁguring HP DCE 1.7 1-3

About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7

HP DCE/9000 Core Services Software

NOTE At HP DCE 1.7, both libdce and libcma were versioned for

compatibility reasons. libdce.1 and libcma.1 are the latest patched HP

DCE 1.5 libraries. libdce.2 and libcma.2 support HP DCE 1.7 on

HP-UX 11.0. Shared applications built on HP DCE 1.6 may have to

recompile to run on HP DCE 1.7.

Hewlett-Packard strongly recommends the use of shared libraries when

building DCE applications. In our opinion, the advantages of shared

libraries — smaller executable size, reduced memory requirement, and

the ability to make use of forthcoming improvements to libdce without

rebuilding or relinking binaries — outweigh the modest performance

penalty HP has measured when testing a high-volume transaction

processing application linked with DCE shared libraries.

HP DCE/9000 Features Added by

Hewlett-Packard

Features Added at Previous Releases of HP DCE

HP DCE 1.7 supports the following features that were added to

HP DCE/ 9000:

• The HP DCE Account Manager (HP DCE 1.4 and later releases)

provides a graphical interface for creating and administering the

DCE registry. The Account Manager requires a bit-mapped display.

There is no ASCII terminal support. Online help is provided for the

Account Manager. See “HP DCE Account Manager” later in this

chapter for more information on the Account Manager.

• The HP DCE Cell Monitor (HP DCE 1.4 and HP DCE1.5 only)

provides a graphical display of the status of each node in a DCE cell.

• DCM, the DCE Conﬁguration Manager (HP DCE 1.4 and later

releases) allows you to conﬁgure the nodes in a DCE cell. This tool is

accessible via SAM (the HP-UX System Administration Manager)

and is documented in online help.

• A set of HP-UX Integrated login utilities that authenticate users via

the DCE Security Registry instead of via /etc/passwd and

/etc/group. HP DCE/9000 includes improvements to login, dtlogin,

su, passwd, telnet, and rlogin, as well as new HP-UX Integrated

versions of ftpd and dtsession and enhanced support for CDE/PAM.

See Chapter 6 for more information about these utilities.