Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.8

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About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.8

HP DCE/9000 Core Services Software

HP DCE/9000 Version 1.8 is based on OSF DCE Version 1.2.1 source

code, with bug ﬁxes and value-added functionality. This section describes

the contents of this release.

OSF DCE Components Included in This Release

This release includes the following OSF DCE components:

• Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Facility, supporting both

connection-oriented (TCP/IP) and connectionless (UDP/IP) transport

protocols.

• User-space Threads, based on Draft 4 of POSIX 1003.4a,

Threads

Extension for Portable Operating Systems.

• Cell Directory Service (CDS), including CDS server replication.

• Access to the CDS name space through the X/Open Directory Service

(XDS) and X/Open Object Management (XOM) services. The OSF

DCE 1.0.3 versions of the XDS, XOM, and dua libraries are a part of

libdce, and the necessary XDS and XOM header ﬁles are provided.

• Security Service, including security server replication and additional

security server replication functionality, and the Audit Service.

• Distributed Time Service (DTS); this release supports ntp, null, and

Spectracom DTS time providers; it also supports global time servers

and DCE time zones.

• Global Directory Agent (GDA), using the Berkeley Internet Naming

Daemon (BIND).

• 64-bit libraries to support DCE 64-bit application development.

• Kernel-threaded (POSIX 1003.1c) DCE.

The DCE application library is provided as both a shared library

(libdce.sl) and an archive library (libdce.a). If you use the shared

library, a DCE application can share a single copy of the library with

other DCE applications that are running on the same host. If you use the

archive library, each application binary will contain its own copy of DCE

routines that it either directly or indirectly calls.