The Open Client and Open Server Configuration Guide for UNIX contains information about configuring your system to run Open Client™ and Open Server™ products on the following platforms:
HP Tru64 UNIX
HP 9000 HP-UX
IBM RISC System/6000 AIX
Linux
Silicon Graphics IRIX
Sun Solaris 2.x (SPARC)
For the supported versions and operating systems for each platform, see the Release Bulletin for your platform.
This book is written for System Administrators, Sybase Database Administrators, and developers. It discusses configuration tasks and topics in terms of system administration rather than application programming.
The Open Client and Open Server Configuration Guide for UNIX is divided into three parts:
Configuration instructions
Configuration utilities
Configuration references
Chapter 1, “Configuration Overview,” provides an overview of the configuration process and the configuration requirements.
Chapter 2, “Basic Configuration for Open Client,” explains how a client application connects to a server and lists the configuration tasks required.
Chapter 3, “Basic Configuration for Open Server,” explains how an Open Server application listens for client connection requests and lists the configuration tasks required for connection.
Chapter 4, “Configuring Open Client for Sybase Failover,” describes the steps necessary to configure your Open Client applications to connect to the secondary server during failover.
Chapter 5, “Using a Directory Service,” explains how applications get connection information from a directory service and lists the configuration tasks required for an application to use a directory service.
Chapter 6, “Using Security Services,” explains how applications use network-based security services and lists configuration tasks required.
Chapter 7, “Using dscp,” explains how to use the dscp command-line utilities to configure the server entries in directory services and the interfaces file.
Chapter 8, “Using dsedit,” explains how to use the dsedit utility to configure the server entries in directory services and the interfaces file. dsedit is a Windows utility with a graphical user interface.
The configuration topics are divided into appendices by the source of configuration information.
Appendix A, “Environment Variables,” lists and explains how to set the environment variables that Open Client and Open Server products use.
Appendix B, “Configuration Files,” presents an overview of configuration files and describes:
libtcl.cfg, the driver configuration file
interfaces, the interfaces file
ocs.cfg, the runtime configuration file
Appendix C, “Localization,” presents an overview of localization files and describes:
locales.dat file
objectid.dat file
mnemonic.dat file
Conversion configuration files
Localized message files
Collating sequence files
Appendix D, “DCE Security Services,” lists the security services supported by the DCE security driver and summarizes DCE configuration requirements for use as an Open Client and Open Server security mechanism.
Appendix E, “Kerberos Security Services,” lists the security services supported by the CyberSafe Kerberos security driver and summarizes CyberSafe configuration requirements for use as an Open Client and Open Server security mechanism.
Appendix F, “Secure Socket Layer in Open Client and Open Server” describes the Security Socket Layer (SSL) support for Open Client and Open Server and summarizes some system configuration tasks that are required in order to use the SSL protocol.
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This manual uses the following style conventions:
Commands you should enter exactly as shown appear in monospace font:
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Words you should replace with the appropriate value for your installation appear in monospace, italic font:
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File names and directories appear in italics:
/usr/u/sybase
The names of programs, utilities, procedures, and commands appear in narrow, bold font:
dscp
This manual uses the following syntax conventions:
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