Services, routing, passwords, groups, and hosts

NIS and non-NIS installations use different locations for this information.
Table 1. services, routing, passwords, groups, and hosts files that 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: ccm7.2_router

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

entry: ccm7.2_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 computer 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 computer

For more information, see Installation directories.

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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