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Showing All Configured DCE Servers and DCE Hosts

Some DCE cells may be relatively stable, with few DCE hosts or DCE servers being added or removed. Other cells can be quite dynamic, with hosts and DCE servers being added, removed, or moved weekly or even daily. In this environment, tracking the locations of DCE resources can be difficult, so the cell task object has a show operation that scans various databases in the cell returning the names of configured DCE servers and DCE hosts.

One use of a cell show command could be to track performance problems. For example, maybe many new hosts and users have been added, but the number or location of CDS or security servers hasn't grown accordingly. Or perhaps you've just been hired to administer a new cell and you want to see what your cell consists of.

To show configured DCE servers and hosts in a cell, enter a cell show operation. The command returns a list of servers grouped by type, along with a list of DCE hosts, as follows:

secservers
Each value is the name of a security server.

cdsservers
Each value is the name of a machine running a CDS server. The name is the simple name found under /.:/hosts. A clearinghouse must be configured on that machine.

dtsservers
Each value is the name of a DTS server in the cell.

hosts
Each value is the name of a host in the cell, including machines mentioned previously as servers. This is simply the return value of a directory list /.:/hosts operation.

The following example shows the names of all the configured DCE servers and hosts in the local cell:

dcecp> cell show

{secservers

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/subsys/dce/sec/master}

{cdsservers

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/earth}

{dtsservers

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/krypton}

{hosts

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/earth

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/jupiter

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/krypton

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/mars

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/mercury

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/neptune

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/pluto

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/saturn

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/uranus

/.../my_cell.goodco.com/hosts/venus}

dcecp>

If you have the necessary permission, you can show the configured DCE servers and hosts in another cell by including that cell's name as an argument as shown in the following example:

dcecp> cell show /.../their_cell.goodco.com

{secservers

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/subsys/dce/sec/master}

{cdsserver

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/gold}

{dtsservers

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/silver/dts-entity}

{hosts

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/brass

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/bronze

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/copper

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/gold

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/iron

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/mercury

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/silver

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/steel

/.../their_cell.goodco.com/hosts/tin}

dcecp>