HP-UX SNAplus2 Upgrade Guide (June 2003)

Changes in SNAplus2 Functions in R6.0 and later releases
Client/Server Operation - Master Server
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Client/Server Operation - Master Server
In a SNAplus client/server system, a computer was set up as a client
simply by not configuring the software for the node and connectivity
components. Because of this, it was possible to set up the system so that
the master server did not include a node (and was therefore effectively a
client computer).
You can still run the master server without a node. However, the Release
6 software on this computer must be the server version and not the client
version, because the client installation does not include some
components that are required for the computer to act as a configuration
file server.