advfsd(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 advfsd(8)

NAME

       advfsd - Starts the AdvFS graphical user interface (GUI) daemon

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/advfsd

DESCRIPTION

       The AdvFS daemon, advfsd, is a  process required by the AdvFS GUI (dtadvfs). The

       advfsd daemon issues commands and obtains system information on	behalf of the AdvFS GUI.

       The /usr/var/advfs/daemon/socket/hosts.allow file contains a list of all hosts on which the advfsd daemon will allow  the AdvFS GUI to run.
       This file can be edited to add or remove hosts. Each  host name must be on a separate line.  For example:

       host1

       host3

       host27

       The /usr/var/advfs/daemon/socket/gui.passwd file, if  it exists, is used by advfsd to force a dtadvfs user to enter a unique password  when
       attempting to connect to the  host. The first line of this file is the unique password required by the GUI.  For example:

       guipassword

       For security reasons, do not use the password of the root user or any  other user; make up a unique name and do not encrypt it.

       The  advfsd  daemon allows Simple Network Management  Protocol (SNMP) clients such as NetView or Performance Manager (PM) to request  AdvFS
       file system information. SNMP clients cannot issue system configuration	commands to the advfsd daemon.

       The advfsd daemon is automatically started at boot  time.  Under normal conditions, this daemon does not need to be run manually.

       If you do not want to have the daemon started at boot time, move the /sbin/rc3.d/s53advfsd  file  from  its  default  location  to  another
       directory  and  run  it	from  that  directory.	 Whenever  you	want  to run the daemon  at boot time, move the s53advfsd file back to the
       /sbin/rc3.d directory.

       The daemon (called an agent in the dtadvfs GUI interface) employs a file, /usr/var/advfs/daemon/disks.ignore, in which you  can	place  the
       names  of  disks that the daemon will ignore when it gathers  information about disks on the system.  If you use the disks.ignore file, you
       can improve the performance of the dtadvfs GUI.

       Each line in the disks.ignore file contains the name  of a disk (with no directory partition letter) to be  ignored  by	the  daemon.   For
       example, to cause  the disks /dev/disk/dsk3d and /dev/disk/dsk2g to be ignored, enter the following names on separate  lines in the file:

       dsk2

       dsk3

       You  cannot ignore an LSM volume by including the LSM volume name in the disks.ignore file; you must list the disks from which the LSM vol-
       ume is built. To ignore a complete disk group, you must list all the disks in it. Because all  partitions  on  the  listed  disks  will	be
       ignored, unexpected results may occur if a disk has partitions belonging to more than one disk group.

       The disks.ignore file is processed each time the disks are checked. This means that if a disk fails or becomes unavailable, you can add the
       disk name to the disks.ignore file and the daemon will ignore it. Once the disk is available, remove the entry from the file. There  is	no
       need to stop the daemon.

       For more information, see the GUI interface reference page , dtadvfs(8).

RESTRICTIONS

       Only one advfsd daemon can be running on a system  at a given time. If a second advfsd daemon attempts to  start, it will fail.

       You must be the root user to use this utility and you must register the Advanced File System Utilities license.

FILES

       The script that starts the advfsd daemon  at boot time.	The advfsd message catalog.  The SNMP data files.  The sh scripts used by the dae-
       mon to execute  commands.  The advfsd daemon executable.  The advfsd daemon message log file. Remove  or copy this log to another  location
       periodically to prevent the log from  becoming too large.  The security file that lists all hosts with permission to  connect to the advfsd
       daemon with the AdvFS GUI (dtadvfs).  The advfsd password file.	The file that lists all disks for the advfsd daemon to	ignore	when  col-
       lecting statistics about resources.

SEE ALSO

       advfs(4), dtadvfs(8)

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