CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Server Description 1.1 InfoServer Overview 1.1.1 InfoServer Functions 1.1.2 Server-Client Relationship 1.2 Establishing a Server Management Session 1.3 Server Management Commands 1.4 Server Help Facility 1.5 Automatic Service Policies for Multiple Servers 1.6 High-Availability Feature to Reduce Service Interruptions 2 Server Functions and Features 2.1 LASTport Protocols 2.1.1 LASTport Protocol 2.1.2 LASTport/Disk Protocol 2.1.3 LASTport/TapeProtocol 2.2 Automatic Mounting of Compact Discs and Tapes 2.3 Installation of Functional Upgrades from CDROMs 2.4 Internal Read/Write Disk Functions 2.4.1 Partitions 2.4.2 Serving an Entire Disk to the Network 2.5 Tape Functions 2.6 X-Terminal Clients 2.7 Service Ratings 2.8 InfoServer Naming Conventions 2.8.1 InfoServer Name 2.8.2 Service Names 2.8.3 Partition Names 2.8.4 Device Names 2.9 Service Classes 2.10 InfoServer Read/Write Access Policies 2.11 MOP Functions 2.11.1 MOP Identify Self 2.11.2 MOP Read Counters 2.11.3 MOP Loop Messages 2.11.4 MOP Downline Loading 3 Server Management Commands 3.1 Command Syntax Conventions 3.1.1 InfoServer Commands 3.1.2 Special Keys 3.1.3 Wildcard Matching CLEAR COPY CREATE PARTITION CREATE SERVICE DELETE PARTITION DELETE SERVICE EXIT HELP INITIALIZE LOOP MONITOR PURGE VXT REBOOT RESTORE REWIND SAVE SET PARTITION SET SERVER AUTOMOUNT SET SERVER CACHE BUCKETSIZE SET SERVER EXTENSION SET SERVER GROUP CODES SET SERVER IDENTIFICATION SET SERVER LAT_RESPONDER SET SERVER MOP SET SERVER MULTICAST SET SERVER NAME SET SERVER PASSWORD SET SERVER PROMPT SET SERVER REMOTE SET SERVER STATE SET SERVER WORK GROUP SET SERVER WRITE ACCESS SET SERVICE SHOW DEVICE SHOW ETHERNET SHOW FUNCTIONS SHOW LAST SHOW LAT SHOW MOP SHOW PARTITIONS SHOW SERVER SHOW SERVICE SHOW TAPE UPDATE FUNCTIONS UPDATE VXT UNLOAD UPDATE MOP UPDATE SYSTEM VERIFY ZERO ALL ZERO ETHERNET ZERO LAT ZERO MOP ZERO SERVER ZERO TAPE 4 Performing Advanced Functions 4.1 Serving Regularly Updated Compact Discs 4.2 Assigning Passwords to Protect Compact Discs 4.3 Serving Media Under Several Names 4.4 Creating and Serving Partitions 4.5 Serving an External Read/Write Disk 4.6 Backing Up Read/Write Data 4.6.1 Backing Up Data Locally 4.6.2 Backing Up Data Remotely 4.7 Creating MOP Partitions for Downline Loading 4.8 Configuring X-Terminals 5 Troubleshooting 5.1 Cannot Connect to the InfoServer Disk 5.2 Access to InfoServer Disks Seems Slow 5.3 Cannot Enter InfoServer Commands from a Local Console 5.4 Cannot Enter InfoServer Commands from a Remote Console 5.5 InfoServer Software Will Not Boot 5.6 Online Help No Longer Available 5.7 InfoServer Does Not Boot Completely 5.8 InfoServer Does Not MOP Downline Load Systems 5.9 Forgot the InfoServer Password A InfoServer Version 2.0 Command Summary B Server Messages B.1 Informational Messages B.2 Error Messages B.3 Warning Messages FIGURES 1-1 InfoServer System Serving Clients TABLES 1-1 InfoServer Command Set 2-1 DK n : Devices 3-1 InfoServer Special Keys 3-2 Valid Class Names 3-3 Valid Class Names 3-4 Class Descriptions 3-5 SHOW DEVICE Display Fields 3-6 SHOW ETHERNET Display Fields 3-7 SHOW LAT COUNTERS Display Fields 3-8 SHOW LAT SESSIONS Display Fields 3-9 SHOW MOP Display Fields 3-10 SHOW PARTITIONS Display Fields 3-11 Fields Common to All SHOW SERVER Displays 3-12 SHOW SERVER CHARACTERISTICS Display Fields 3-13 SHOW SERVER COUNTERS Display Fields 3-14 SHOW SERVER STATISTICS Display Fields 3-15 SHOW SERVICE Display Fields 3-16 SHOW TAPE Display Fields