Gathering Your Data

Before you set up ALLBASE/NET, you need to gather the information about the client and/or server that you will be entering in the AliasDB and NETUsers files.

If you are the system administrator on both the client and server, all the information you need is readily available to you.
If you are the system administrator on only the client or the server, contact the system administrator on the other server or client to obtain specific information. You also need to provide that system administrator with information specific to your client or server.

As system administrator on the client, you need the following information about the server to put in the AliasDB file:

Type of database management system being used on the server.
Absolute pathname of the DBEnvironment on the server.
Node name of the server where the DBEnvironment is located.
Machine type of the server.
Type of data communication used.

As system administrator on the server, you need the following information about the client to put in the NETUsers file and for assigning a server login to the client:

Client node name.
Client login name.

To obtain the host name used by the ARPA interface, check the /etc/hosts file on HP-UX. If the hosts file does not exist, check the domain name service file, /etc/resolv.conf. This file contains the names of the systems that have hosts files.

When you have obtained all the needed information, set up ALLBASE/NET using the step-by-step instructions in the "Setting Up ALLBASE/NET" chapter.

Gathering Your Data

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