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
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