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About This Manual
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1    Introduction to Tru64 UNIX
1.1    Overview
1.1.1    Product History
1.1.2    Standards
1.2    Product Features and Enhancements
1.2.1    Scalability
1.2.2    Performance
1.2.3    Availability and Serviceability
1.2.4    Features of the Installation Processes
1.2.5    System and Network Management Features
1.2.6    ARMTech Resource Management Software
1.2.7    UNIX and Microsoft Windows Interoperability
1.2.8    Advanced Printing Software
1.2.9    System V Support
1.2.10    Secure Web Server
1.2.11    Tru64 UNIX Open Source Software Collection
1.2.12    Documentation
1.3    Optional Components
1.3.1    TruCluster Server
1.3.2    Logical Storage Manager
1.3.3    Advanced File System Utilities
1.3.4    Developer's Toolkit
1.3.5    Advanced Server for UNIX
1.3.6    Multimedia Services
1.3.7    Other Software
1.3.7.1    Internet Express for Tru64 UNIX
1.3.7.2    Enterprise Toolkit for Visual Studio
1.3.7.3    Source Materials Options
1.4    Packaging
1.4.1    Documentation
1.4.2    Licensing
 
2    System Management
2.1    Installation
2.1.1    Full Installation
2.1.2    Update Installation
2.1.3    Installation Cloning
2.1.4    Configuration Cloning
2.1.5    Rolling Upgrade of a Cluster
2.1.6    The setld Utility
2.1.7    Installation Documentation
2.2    System Patching
2.3    System Configuration
2.4    Logical Storage Manager
2.5    System Management Utilities
2.5.1    The SysMan Menu
2.5.2    The SysMan Station
2.5.3    The CDE Application Manager
2.6    Performance and Event Management
2.6.1    HP Insight Manager
2.6.2    Compaq Analyze
2.6.3    Monitoring Performance History Utility
2.6.4    The sys_check Utility
2.6.5    X-Based Utilities
2.6.6    Environmental Monitoring
2.6.7    Event Manager
2.6.8    DECevent Translation and Reporting Utility
2.7    Managing Crash Dumps
2.8    Hardware Management
2.8.1    The hwmgr utility
2.8.2    Dynamic Device Recognition
2.9    Dynamically Loadable Subsystems
2.10    Dynamic System Configuration
2.11    Dataless Management Services
 
3    Networking
3.1    The Internet Protocol Suite
3.1.1    Application-Layer Protocols
3.1.1.1    Domain Name System Protocol
3.1.1.2    Routing Protocols
3.1.1.3    File Transfer Protocol
3.1.1.4    Network File System Protocol over UDP Transport
3.1.1.5    Network File System Protocol over TCP Transport
3.1.1.6    Telnet Protocol
3.1.1.7    Trivial File Transfer Protocol
3.1.1.8    Finger Protocol
3.1.1.9    Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
3.1.1.10    Simple Network Management Protocol
3.1.1.11    POP3
3.1.1.12    IMAP4
3.1.1.13    Resource Reservation Protocol
3.1.2    Transport-Level Protocols
3.1.2.1    User Datagram Protocol
3.1.2.2    Transmission Control Protocol
3.1.3    Internet Network-Level Protocols
3.1.3.1    Internet Protocol Version 4
3.1.3.2    Internet Protocol Version 6
3.1.3.3    Internet Protocol Security
3.1.3.4    Address Resolution Protocol
3.1.3.5    Internet Control Message Protocol
3.2    Network Interface Layer
3.2.1    Asynchronous Transfer Mode
3.2.2    Ethernet Networks
3.2.3    Fast Ethernet Networks
3.2.4    Gigabit Ethernet Networks
3.2.5    Fiber Distributed Data Interface Networks
3.2.6    Token Ring Networks
3.2.7    Serial Line IP and Compressed Serial Line IP
3.2.8    Point-to-Point Protocol
3.2.9    Multiple Adapter Support
3.2.10    Link Aggregation
3.2.11    NetRAIN
3.2.12    Virtual Local Area Network
3.3    Application Programming Interfaces
3.3.1    X/Open Transport Interface
3.3.2    Sockets
3.3.3    STREAMS
3.3.4    Sockets and STREAMS Interaction
3.3.5    Data Link Provider Interface
3.3.6    Extensible SNMP Interface
3.4    Network Administration Software
3.4.1    Networking Commands and Utilities
3.4.2    Ethernet Packet Filter and Packet Filter Applications
3.4.3    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
3.4.4    The Internet Boot Protocol Daemon
3.4.5    SNMP Agent
3.4.6    The gated Daemon
3.4.7    The screend Daemon
3.4.8    UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program
3.4.9    Local Area Transport
3.4.10    Network Interface Monitoring
3.5    Naming Services
3.5.1    Domain Name System
3.5.2    Network Information Service
3.6    Time Services
3.6.1    Network Time Protocol
3.6.2    Time Synchronization Protocol
 
4    File Systems
4.1    Overview
4.2    Virtual File System
4.3    Advanced File System
4.4    UNIX File System
4.5    Cluster File System
4.6    Network File System
4.6.1    NFS Version 3 Features
4.6.2    Enhancements to NFS
4.7    CD-ROM File System
4.8    DVD File System
4.9    Memory File System
4.10    The /proc File System
4.11    File-on-File Mounting File System
4.12    File Descriptor File System
 
5    Kernel, Symmetric Multiprocessing, NUMA, Virtual Memory, and Device Support
5.1    The Tru64 UNIX Kernel
5.1.1    Kernel Tuning
5.1.2    Enhanced Kernel Debugging
5.2    Symmetric Multiprocessing
5.3    Nonuniform Memory Access (NUMA)
5.4    Virtual Memory
5.4.1    Managing and Tracking Pages
5.4.2    Prewriting Modified Pages
5.4.3    Using Attributes to Control Paging and Swapping
5.4.4    Paging Operation
5.4.5    Swapping Operation
5.4.6    Swap Space Allocation Mode
5.4.7    Using Swap Buffers
5.4.8    Unified Buffer Cache
5.5    Device Support
 
6    Development Environment
6.1    Compaq C Compiler
6.2    Debuggers
6.2.1    The dbx Debugger
6.2.2    The ladebug Debugger
6.3    Profiling Tools
6.4    Shared Libraries
6.4.1    Quickstart
6.4.2    Dynamic Loader
6.4.3    Versioning
6.5    Run-Time Libraries
6.6    Java Development Kit
6.7    Development Commands
6.8    Thread Support
6.8.1    POSIX Threads Library
6.8.2    Visual Threads
6.8.3    Thread-Independent Services
6.9    Memory-Mapped File Support
6.10    Real-Time User and Programming Environment
6.11    Network Programming Interfaces
 
7    Security
7.1    Overview
7.2    Identification, Authentication, and Authorization
7.3    Discretionary Access Controls
7.4    Audit Subsystem
7.5    Object Reuse
7.6    Protected Environment for Trusted Components
7.7    Integrity Features
 
8    Internationalization
8.1    Overview
8.2    Supported Languages
8.3    Locale Creation
8.4    Codeset Conversion
8.5    Unicode and Dense Code Locales
8.6    Unicode Support
8.7    Configure International Software Utility
8.8    Support for the Euro Currency Symbol
8.9    The dxim Input Server
8.10    Internationalized Curses Library
8.11    Additional Internationalization Features
 
9    The Windowing Environment
9.1    Common Desktop Environment
9.2    X Window System
9.2.1    X Client Libraries
9.2.2    X Server
9.2.3    Multihead Graphic Support
9.2.4    X Server Extensions
9.2.5    Display Manager
9.2.6    Font Server
9.2.7    X Clients
9.3    Motif Suite of Components
9.3.1    Extended Widget Set
9.3.2    X Clients
 
10    UNIX and Windows Interoperability
10.1    Advanced Server for UNIX
10.2    Data Access (ODBC and JDBC)
 
A    Internet Standards
A.1    RFC Standards
A.2    Non-RFC Standards
 
Glossary of Common UNIX and General Computer Terms
 
Figures
1-1    Master Index Search Display
2-1    System Setup
2-2    Quick Setup
2-3    Custom Setup
2-4    The SysMan Menu
2-5    The SysMan Station
3-1    TCP/IP Protocols
3-2    Interaction Between XTI and STREAMS and Sockets Frameworks
3-3    DHCP Configuratrion
4-1    File Systems
 
Tables
2-1    User-Controlled Features of the Update Process
2-2    Built-In Features of the Update Process
8-1    Languages and Locales
A-1    RFC Standards
 
Index