Routing, services, hosts, passwords, and groups

The following table shows the routing, services, hosts, passwords, and groups files used to run Rational Synergy.

Purpose Product Using NIS Not Using NIS
Services Informix master services file on the NIS server entries: servername_serverhostname for each dbserver /etc/services on each dbserver and engine host using that dbserver

entries: servername_serverhostname for each dbserver engine host

Routing Rational Synergy master services file on the NIS server for each network entry:

ccm7.1_router

/etc/services on every Rational Synergy machine for each network

entry: ccm7.1_router

Passwords Rational Synergy master passwd file on the NIS server /etc/passwd (and /etc/shadow) file on each dbserver
Groups Rational Synergy master group file on the NIS server /etc/group (and /etc/shadow) file on each dbserver
Hosts Rational Synergy master hosts file on the NIS or DNS server entries:

the dbserver and each engine host

/etc/hosts on every machine running Rational Synergy entries:

the dbserver and each engine host

master hosts.equiv on the NIS server, or the ccm_root .rhosts file

entries: dbserver and each engine host for users ccm_root and informix

/etc/hosts.equiv on each dbserver, or the ccm_root and informix.rhosts files

entries: dbserver and each Informix engine host for users ccm_root and informix

Informix ccm_home/informix/etc/sqlhosts on the installation machine

(For more information, see s_r_igu_installation_directories.html#wp955903__wp955907.)

entries: servername and servername_net for each dbserver host

same as using NIS
DCM (and Rational Synergy platform attribute)
ccm_home/etc/om_hosts.cfg
ccm_home/etc/remexec.cfg
same as using NIS

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