tsad(1)
tsad --
UnixWare daemon for Storage Management Services (SMS) Target Service Agent (TSA)
Synopsis
tsad [-f config_file] [-t register_timeout] [-c connect_timeout]
[-p path_to_tsaunix]
Description
The tsad program is a daemon process that makes up part of the
Storage Management Services (SMS) Target Service Agent
(TSA) for UnixWare. Its job is to notify a set of NetWare®
servers that a UnixWare machine is available to be backed up and wait for
a backup request from one of those servers. When a request for backup
arrives from a NetWare server, the
tsaunix(1)
program is spawned to interact with the operator on the NetWare server and
to transmit the data to be backed up.
If one of the notified NetWare servers is reset, it will no longer be aware
of the UnixWare machine. tsad will therefore wake up every
register_timeout seconds and notify each NetWare server again.
The NetWare servers to be notified, along with the protocol to be used to
notify each server, is read from config_file. See
unixtsa.conf(4)
for details on the format of this file. If a NIS map named
unixtsa is found in the currently bound NIS domain,
then this map will similarly be scanned for servers.
Error messages, if any, are written to /var/adm/unixtsa.log.
Options
The following options are supported:
- -f config_file
-
Specify the configuration file to be used. Defaults to
/etc/unixtsa.conf.
- -t register_timeout
-
Specify a registration timeout value in seconds. When this time limit
expires, the daemon will again register with each NetWare server that it
knows about. Defaults to one hour (3600).
- -c connection_timeout
-
Specify a connection timeout value in seconds. When communicating with a
NetWare server for any reason, the daemon will wait this many seconds for
replies. This value may need to be increased for slow networks, keeping in
mind that a server request to perform a backup cannot be serviced while the
daemon is already trying to contact another server. Defaults to thirty
seconds (30).
- -p path_to_tsaunix
-
Specify the full path to the tsaunix executable. Defaults to
/opt/bin/tsaunix.
Files
- /usr/lib/locale/LC_MESSAGES/tsad.cat
-
Language-specific message file (see LANG on the
environ(5)
manual page).
- /etc/unixtsa.conf
-
Default configuration file that lists NetWare servers with which to register
the protocol to use for each server. This information will also be read
from the NIS map unixtsa if it exists.
References
tsaunix(1),
unixtsa.conf(4)
30 January 1998
© 1998 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All rights reserved.