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Preparing DMS Servers and Clients
This chapter describes how to get DMS servers and clients ready to run in a
dataless environment. Perform the following steps to prepare DMS servers
and clients:
1. Meet requirements for DMS servers. (Section 10.1)
2. Meet requirements for DMS clients. (Section 10.2)
3. Allocate disk partitions for DMS. (Section 10.3)
4. Set up a local area network. (LAN) (Section 10.4)
5. Set up a Network File System. (NFS) (Section 10.5)
6. Plan and calculate DMS disk space requirements. (Section 10.6)
7. Install the operating system software on the DMS server. (Section 10.7)
8. Register DMS clients. (Section 10.8)
9. Understand DMS security issues. (Section 10.9)
10.1 Requirements for DMS Servers
Setting up a dataless environment requires that the following conditions be
met for DMS servers:
• A DMS server must have Version 3.0 or higher of the operating system
installed to serve client systems with the current version of the operating
system. The server can be any Alpha-based processor, with the exception
of those noted in Section 1.2. A single server can serve both RIS and
DMS clients, but a client cannot be registered to both RIS and DMS at
the same time. DMS servers can serve only clients running Version 3.0
or higher of the operating system.
• The DMS server must have the following software subsets installed:
– Additional Networking Services (
OSFINET)
– Dataless Management Services (OSFDMS)
• The DMS server must have the OSF-SVR or UNIX-SERVER Product
Authorization Key (PAK) loaded and registered. The OSF-SVR or
UNIX-SERVER license allows an Alpha-based system to be a server.
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