DCE Administration Objects
A DCE cell consists of many things that need administration. As examples, CDS servers (clearinghouses), DTS clocks, and server location information are all entities in a DCE cell that require administration in one way or another. The DCE control program treats all of DCE's administrative entities as individual administration objects.
You operate on an entity by invoking its object name along with some operation. So for instance, to check the time of a DTS clock, you invoke the object's name (clock) and the desired operation (show) as in the following example.
dcecp> clock show
1994-09-23-10:46:42.016-04:00I-----
dcecp>
Each administrative entity in DCE has a corresponding administration object in the DCE control program. As a few examples, you can manage CDS clearinghouse operations in a cell using the clearinghouse object. Manage application servers and their configuration information on DCE hosts using the server object. Compare and manipulate time information using the utc object. Administer users in a DCE cell with the user object. These examples represent just a few of the dcecp administration objects. All of the objects are listed in the dcecp(8dce) reference page.