Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.8

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About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.8

HP DCE/9000 Core Services Software

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, rcp, remsh, as well as the

new HP-UX Integrated versions of ftp and dtsession and enhanced

support for CDE/PAM. See Chapter 6 for more information about

these utilities.

• The DCE cell diagnostic tool dceping.

• An enhanced version of the OSF CDS browser (cdsbrowser), which

has been ported to Release 6 of the X11 Windows system and the

Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The browser is accessible

through SAM. See the CDS Browser online help (accessible via the

CDS Browser Help menu) for details.

NOTE The product OODCE has been discontinued from HP DCE 1.8 and any

later releases of HP DCE.

• A set of tools for developing DCE applications is available as

separately priced options to HP DCE/9000. For DCE application

development in C, HP DCE/9000 Application Development Tools

includes a modiﬁed IDL compiler (I2DL), tracing and logging facility,

error reporting facility, and sample applications.

• cdsclerk (new at HP DCE 1.5) no longer runs as separate processes.

cdsclerk functionality has been merged into the cdsadv process.

cdsadv, therefore, is now the only HP DCE CDS client process.

• HP's dced (new at HP DCE 1.5) supports the new -r option. This

option starts dced in remote-update mode, which allows DCE cell

administration tasks to be performed by an administrator on a

remote machine. In order to help prevent attacks, the dced default

behavior is to disallow any remote administration.

• HP has enhanced the dcecp registry connect command with two