Manual Organization
This document begins with important information for system administrators:
| • | Do This First—Administrator’s Checklist |
The following section describes several details upon which programmers and administrators must agree for correct program operation:
| • | Network Details |
The next several sections describe Rendezvous components that run as executable processes. Administrators must ensure correct set-up and operation of these components:
| • | Rendezvous Daemon (rvd) |
| • | Routing Daemon (rvrd) |
| • | Secure Daemons (rvsd and rvsrd) |
| • | Current Value Cache |
These sections describe utilities for measuring overall system capacity and performance, and for diagnosing network problems.
| • | Performance Assessment (rvperf) |
| • | Latency Assessment (rvlat) |
| • | Measuring Tools for IPM |
| • | Protocol Monitor (rvtrace) |
Additional administrative tasks apply when distributed systems use advanced features of Rendezvous software:
| • | Certified Message Delivery |
| • | Fault Tolerance |
| • | Distributed Queues |