Managing Your Access Server As a LAT Node Offering a Service

Managing Your Access Server As a LAT Node Offering a Service

Introduction

By default, once there is a service, the access server functions as a service node by issuing multicast service announcements, which describe its available services to access servers on the network. These announcements contain information about the service node (such as its name and identification string) and about the available services. A single multicast service announcement is entered at the interval indicated by the multicast timer

Displaying Information About a Service

You can display information about services on the LAT network, including services on your access server, using the SHOW/MONITOR/LIST SERVICES command.

To display information on the services offered by your access server, use the SHOW/ LIST SERVICES LOCAL command. To display information about a particular service, use the SHOW/LIST SERVICE command followed by the service name. To display information about all services, use the SHOW/LIST SERVICE ALL command.

There are three types of information you can display about the service:

Characteristics

The characteristics display is useful when you are changing operational and permanent values with the SET/DEFINE/CHANGE SERVICE command.

Status

You can obtain data on the operation of services by using the status display.

Summary

The summary display gives you capsule data on the services offered on the network or the local access server.

Displaying Services Characteristics

The LIST/SHOW/MONITOR SERVICES CHARACTERISTICS command generates a display of information on values that you can modify with the SET/ DEFINE/CHANGE SERVICE command. With the LIST command, the characteristics display is the default display for the SERVICES and the SERVICES LOCAL entity specifications.

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