Installing SoftBench

Setting Up Network-Distributed Operation
Customizing Subprocess Control
Chapter 650
Customizing Subprocess Control
Whenever SoftBench starts a process (either local or remote), it uses the
Subprocess Control (SPC) service. This section describes how you can
customize SPC behavior.
The SPC Authentication Directory
SoftBench uses the SPC to start a SoftBench tool on a remote system.
Before you can use a remote SoftBench tool, access must be
authenticated. During authentication, the SPC server on the remote
execution host creates a temporary file in a directory to verify the user's
identity on both systems.
Requirements for the SPC Authentication Directory
In order for authentication to succeed:
• The authentication directory must exist.
• Both the local and the remote system must have read/write access to
the authentication directory.
• The directory must allow read/write access by any SoftBench user.
• The directory may be local on one system, but must be mounted on
the other. It may be mounted on both.
This may be a hard mount, or the mount may occur automatically
through the -hosts automounter map.
• Operation of the validation directory is unreliable if it is mounted
through an automounter map other than -hosts.