| About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 |
| HP DCE/9000 Core Services Software |
| At HP DCE 1.7, both libdce and libcma were versioned for |
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| compatibility reasons. libdce.1 and libcma.1 are the latest patched HP |
| DCE 1.5 libraries. libdce.2 and libcma.2 support HP DCE 1.7 on |
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| recompile to run on HP DCE 1.7. |
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| building DCE applications. In our opinion, the advantages of shared |
| libraries — smaller executable size, reduced memory requirement, and |
| the ability to make use of forthcoming improvements to libdce without |
| rebuilding or relinking binaries — outweigh the modest performance |
| penalty HP has measured when testing a |
| processing application linked with DCE shared libraries. |
| HP DCE/9000 Features Added by |
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| Features Added at Previous Releases of HP DCE |
| HP DCE 1.7 supports the following features that were added to |
| HP DCE/ 9000: |
| • The HP DCE Account Manager (HP DCE 1.4 and later releases) |
| provides a graphical interface for creating and administering the |
| DCE registry. The Account Manager requires a |
| There is no ASCII terminal support. Online help is provided for the |
| Account Manager. See “HP DCE Account Manager” later in this |
| chapter for more information on the Account Manager. |
| • The HP DCE Cell Monitor (HP DCE 1.4 and HP DCE1.5 only) |
| provides a graphical display of the status of each node in a DCE cell. |
| • DCM, the DCE Configuration Manager (HP DCE 1.4 and later |
| releases) allows you to configure the nodes in a DCE cell. This tool is |
| accessible via SAM (the |
| and is documented in online help. |
| • A set of |
| the DCE Security Registry instead of via /etc/passwd and |
| /etc/group. HP DCE/9000 includes improvements to login, dtlogin, |
| su, passwd, telnet, and rlogin, as well as new |
| versions of ftpd and dtsession and enhanced support for CDE/PAM. |
| See Chapter 6 for more information about these utilities. |
Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.7 |