
DSMSCM
SYSGEN
Distributed Name Service (DNS) Subsystem
DNS is part of the set of the Distributed Systems Management (DSM) subsystem.
DNS simplifies management of relationships between objects in a NonStop
system or an Expand network by managing a distributed and partly replicated name
database that models those objects.
DNS provides facilities that:
Maintain names of objects controlled by the HP server and other types of
systems
Provide alternative names (aliases) for objects
Translate an alias for subsystem-object names, allowing command interpreters
to accept meaningful names
Translate subsystem-object names to aliases, allowing event-processing applica- ...