Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.8

Chapter 5 87

Conﬁguring HP DCE Cells

Conﬁguring Cells Using dce_conﬁg

Time servers should be conﬁgured in any cell of more than one

system. A minimum of three Time servers is recommended for any

cell with three or more member systems. See the

OSF DCE

Administration Guide - Core Services

for a discussion of the

optimum placement of servers in a cell with gateway or WAN links.

DTS servers may be conﬁgured on any system in the cell.

When dce_conﬁg is ﬁrst run on a system, the HP-UX environment

variable TZ is read to determine the HP-UX local time zone.

dce_conﬁg then automatically selects a matching DCE local time

zone and creates the link for / etc/opt/dce/zoneinfo/localtime. A

different time zone can be chosen: see the localtime (5) man page for

details.

To conﬁgure a DTS server on this system, or on another system:

• If the DTS server for this cell will be on another system, repeat

steps 1 and 2 on that system, and continue with step 11 below.

• If the DTS server will be on this system, continue with step 11

below.

11.From the Initial Cell Conﬁguration menu, choose Initial DTS Server:

selection: 3

S:****** Configuring initial DTS services

S:******Please wait for user authentication and

authorization...

S:****** Checking for active sec_client service...

DTS Configuration Menu

1. DTS Local Server

2. DTS Global Server (only in multi-LAN cells.)

3. DTS Clerk

4. DTS Time Provider

98. Return to previous menu

99. Exit

selection:

12.For servers on the same LAN, select the DTS Local Server:

selection: 1 (DTS Local Server)