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NAME

       mms - MMS service overview

DESCRIPTION

       MMS is a distributed removable media management system. It is based on the standard, IEEE 1244, Media Management System (MMS).

       The  current implementation of MMS manages tapes and cartridges in a Sun StorageTek ACSLS tape library and emulated tapes on a file system.
       MMS is capable of sharing drives among multiple hosts. An important feature of MMS is that it provides a uniform and consistent tape inter-
       face to its client applications.

       MMS consists of a media manager (MM) which manages the entire MMS system. Information about the system is maintained by MM in a database.

       Every library managed by MMS has an active library manager (LM). An LM provides library access and mounting service to MMS.

       A  drive  managed by MMS has a drive manager (DM) on each host that has access to the drive. A DM provides device specific operations. A DM
       also provides label processing. The current implementation supports only ANSI labels.

       MMS client applications request MM to mount and unmount cartridges and process them after they are mounted. Applications use the Media Man-
       agement Protocol (MMP) to make requests. A library of client application functions is available.

       The  Solaris  implementation  of  the MMS uses the mmsinit(1M) command to configure and start the MMS service and the mmsadm(1M) command to
       list and set parameters required by the service.

       The MMS service instances, as reported by svcs(1), are:

       mms:wcr

	   watcher

       mms:db

	   Media Manager PostgreSQL database

       mms:mm

	   Media Manager

       The MMS service RBAC (see rbac(5)) authorizations are:

	   o	  solaris.smf.manage.mms

	   o	  solaris.smf.value.mms

       The following are the MMS service configuration data accessible through the service management facility (see smf(5)):

       config/type

	   Host is media manager or watcher only. Valid values are server or client.

       manager/host

	   Host name where the media manager is running.

       manager/port

	   Port the media manager is using.

       ssl/enabled

	   Media Manager is using SSL. Valid values are true or false. Note the Media Manager needs an	SSL  RSA  certificate  and  Diffie-Hellman
	   parameters must be 'true'.

       ssl/verify

	   Media  Manager-only	value,	determines whether two-way authentication is enabled, which requires all Media Manager clients to have SSL
	   RSA certificate. Valid values are are true for two-way authentication and false for one-way authentication.

       ssl/cert_file

	   Name of file that contains the SSL RSA certificate, private key, and RSA certificate chain.

       ssl/pass_file

	   Name of file for the private key password phrase if the RSA certificate is encrypted.

       ssl/dh_file

	   Media Manager-only value, name of file that stores the Diffie-Hellman parameters.

       ssl/crl_file

	   Name of optional CRL file.

       ssl/cipher

	   Optional cipher change from EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA.

       ssl/peer_file

	   Optional client only, name of file that stores the media manager certificate.  The  certificate  is	checked  against  the  certificate
	   returned by SSL_get_peer_certificate() function.

       The following are the MMS Database fault management resource identifier (FMRI) configuration data:

       postgresql/bin

	   Directory  where  the  PostgreSQL binaries are located. The directory is specific to the version of PostgreSQL qualified for use by the
	   MMS software.

       postgresql/data

	   Directory where the PostgreSQL database is located. The default location is	a version-specific subdirectory of /var/mms/db.

       The following are the MMS Media Manager FMRI configuration data:

       db/host

	   For future use. Set to localhost.

       db/port

	   Port number to use for PostgreSQL login. The default value is 7656.

       db/user

	   PostgreSQL user name. The default user name is postgres.

       db/name

	   Name of PostgreSQL database to which to connect. The default value is mms.

       option/trace

	   Optional. The Media Manager trace level before connecting to the PostgreSQL database.

       option/db_reconnect_max_retry

	   Number of times to wait for the database to accept a Media Manager connection.

       option/db_reconnect_timeout

	   Number of seconds to wait  between reconnect tries.

       The following are the MMS Watcher FMRI configuration data:

       option/ssi_path

	   Path to ACSLS SSI daemon.

       option/libapi_path

	   Path to ACSLS API library.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       svcs(1), mmsadm(1M), mmsclient(1M), mmsexplorer(1M), mmsinit(1M), mmsclient_script(4), attributes(5), rbac(5), smf(5)

SunOS 5.11							    11 Nov 2008 							    mms(5)