CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Server Description 1.1 InfoServer Functions 1.2 Server/Client Relationship 1.3 Automatic Service Policies and Availability Features 1.4 Establishing an InfoServer Management Session 1.5 InfoServer Command Summary 1.6 InfoServer Help Facility 2 Server Features and Functions 2.1 LASTport Protocols 2.1.1 LASTport Protocol 2.1.2 LASTport/Disk Protocol 2.1.3 LASTport/Tape Protocol 2.2 Automatic Mounting of Compact Discs 2.3 Installation of Functional Upgrades from Compact Discs 2.4 Internal Read/Write Device 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 Message 2.11.2 MOP Request Counters Message 2.11.3 MOP Loop Messages 2.11.4 MOP Downline Loading 3 Server Management Commands 3.1 Command Syntax Conventions 3.1.1 Wildcard Matching 3.1.2 Special Keys 3.2 InfoServer Commands BACKUP CLEAR COPY CRASH CREATE PARTITION CREATE SERVICE DELETE PARTITION DELETE SERVICE DISCONNECT ERASE EXIT HELP INITIALIZE LOOP MONITOR PURGE VXT REBOOT RESTORE RETRIEVE REWIND SAVE SET DEVICE AUTOMOUNT SET PARTITION SET SERVER AUTOMOUNT SET SERVER CACHE BUCKETSIZE SET SERVER CACHE SIZE SET SERVER CRASHDUMP SET SERVER EXTENSION SET SERVER GROUP SET SERVER IDENTIFICATION SET SERVER LASTPORT GROUP 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 WRITE ACCESS SET SERVICE SHOW DEVICE SHOW ETHERNET SHOW FUNCTIONS SHOW LAST SHOW LAT SHOW MOP SHOW PARTITIONS SHOW SERVER SHOW SERVICE SHOW TAPE UNLOAD UPDATE FUNCTIONS UPDATE SYSTEM UPDATE VXT VERIFY ZERO ALL ZERO ETHERNET ZERO LAT ZERO MOP ZERO SERVER ZERO TAPE 4 Advanced Operations 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 Defragmenting an InfoServer Disk 4.8 Replicating an InfoServer Disk 4.9 Making Downline Loadable Images Available to Clients 4.9.1 MOP Downline Loading by Ethernet Address 4.9.2 Automatic Installation of MOP Partitions 4.10 Configuring X terminals 4.11 Enforcing Network License Limits for Devices 5 Troubleshooting 5.1 Client System Cannot Connect to InfoServer Device 5.2 Access to InfoServer Devices 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 Does Not Boot 5.6 Online Help No Longer Available 5.7 InfoServer System Does Not Boot Completely 5.8 InfoServer System Does Not Downline Load Clients 5.9 InfoServer Password Forgotten A Server Command Syntax 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 SHOW DEVICE Display Fields 3-4 SHOW ETHERNET Display Fields 3-5 SHOW LAT COUNTERS Display Fields 3-6 SHOW LAT SESSIONS Display Fields 3-7 SHOW MOP Display Fields 3-8 SHOW PARTITIONS Display Fields 3-9 Fields Common to All SHOW SERVER Displays 3-10 SHOW SERVER CHARACTERISTICS Display Fields 3-11 SHOW SERVER COUNTERS Display Fields 3-12 SHOW SERVER STATISTICS Display Fields 3-13 SHOW SERVICE Display Fields 3-14 SHOW TAPE Display Fields