Admin_Intro

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     NAME
          Introduction to the DCE daemon and RPC control program
          commands

     DESCRIPTION
          RPC provides two administrative facilities, the DCE
          daemon and the RPC control program.

            o  The DCE daemon is a process that provides the endpoint
               map service, which maintains the local endpoint map for
               local RPC servers and looks up endpoints for RPC
               clients.  An endpoint is the address of a specific
               instance of a server executing in a particular address
               space on a given system (a server instance). Each
               endpoint can be used on a system by only one server at
               a time.

               An endpoint map is a database where servers register
               their binding information, including endpoints, for
               each of their RPC interfaces and the associated RPC
               objects. Each combination of binding information,
               interface identifier, and object UUID uses a distinct
               element in the local endpoint map.

               Running the DCE$RPC_STARTUP.COM procedure starts the 
               RPC daemon. The DCE$RPC_SHUTDOWN.COM procedure is used
               to stop the RPC daemon.

            o  The control program provides a set of commands for managing 
               endpoint maps.  The control program supports showing endpoint 
               map elements and removing any set of map elements from the 
               local endpoint map or from any remote endpoint map.

               The rpccp command starts the RPC control program
               (DCE$RPCCP.EXE).

     EXIT VALUES
          The RPC control program reports RPC error messages on the
          command line.  If the command executes successfully, the
          value returned is 1 (one); otherwise, the value is an OpenVMS
          DCE error status.

     RELATED INFORMATION 
          Type HELP RPC for help about:

          Commands:  dced rpccp

STARTING and STOPPING RPC:

The RPC daemon can be started or stopped with the two new command files
DCE$RPC_STARTUP.COM and DCE$RPC_SHUTDOWN.COM, which are located in
SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR].

STARTING:
	To start the DCE daemon, execute DCE$RPC_STARTUP.COM.
        The following options may be specified:

	[NO]CONFIRM - Turns user prompting on or off.  CONFIRM is the 
	default.

STOPPING:
	To stop the Remote Procedure Call daemon execute 
	DCE$RPC_SHUTDOWN.COM.  The following options may 
	be specified in any order.	

	[NO]CONFIRM - Turns user prompting on or off.  CONFIRM is the 
	default.

	CLEAN - Deletes all entries from the RPC endpoint database.

	Note:  The DCE daemon must not be stopped if any DCE components
	       or RPC applications are running on the system.