Overview - Managing DCE Host Services and Host Data
Some services like DTS, CDS, and the DCE Security Service Registry, which produce or maintain cell-wide information, are centralized. Although the services they provide are available throughout a cell, the servers themselves typically reside on just a few selected hosts in a cell.
Other DCE services are pervasive; that is, they reside on every host in a DCE cell. The DCE software that runs on every DCE host provides essential services that enable local client and server programs to interact with remote client and server programs in a reliable and secure way. Consequently, each host in a DCE cell has administrative aspects which are discussed in the first part of this topic.
Each DCE host maintains local data that is essential to host operation in a DCE environment. Occasionally, you may find it necessary to modify parts of this data as your cell configuration changes, or as you add DCE capabilities or DCE applications. The second part of this topic discusses how to use the DCE control program to gain remote, authenticated access to this data.
When DCE operations do not succeed for some reason, you want to inform the right people about what happened. DCE's serviceability messaging facility lets you route error messages based on the severity level of the message. The last part of this topic explains how to manage this facility.