Starting Configured DCE Processes on a Host
Each host's DCE daemon (dced) can maintain configuration information for servers set to run on that particular host. This information is established using an application's installation script or by using the server object directly. While the server object provides its own start operation that can start individual servers on a host, you must explicitly name each server. The host start operation lets you start all configured DCE servers and clients and all configured application servers on a host with a single command.
To operate on a remote host, its DCE daemon must be running. Remote host start operations also require at least one CDS server and one security server to be running in the cell. The host start operation operates on DCE servers and clients and on application servers that are configured by using the server object.
Application servers must be configured with the starton attribute set to boot or explicit. You can read more about configuring application servers in the topic entitled DCE Application Administration.
The following example starts all configured servers on host bigbox:
dcecp> host start /.:/hosts/bigbox
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