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seagent Daemon

Valid on UNIX

The seagent daemon accepts requests from remote stations, and applies them to the local CA Access Control and UNIX databases, or to the PMDBs. It also checks that the Watchdog daemon seoswd is running, and if it is not, restarts it.

Note: When you load CA Access Control (seload) it also starts seagent; this daemon does not work independently and cannot be started using the seagent command.

Seagent waits for connections on the seoslang and seoslang2 TCP services (whose default values are 8890 and 8891 respectively). When a connection request arrives, seagent forks a child process to handle the communication on the connection, and continues waiting for new connections.

The child processes of seagent get the requests from the client, and apply them to the local database.

The Agent is also responsible for the following:

• Updating the UNIX user file /etc/passwd, the system's shadow password file, and the UNIX group file /etc/group
• Alerting Policy Model daemons when an update is sent
• Alerting the parent Policy Models of both the local host and any Policy Model on the machine when a subscriber station (that has been down) is available for updating

CA Access Control uses only ports 8890 and 8891. We recommended that you do not change these ports.

The seagent agent uses the RPC mechanism and therefore the portmapper must be running on the local machine. For additional information on the portmapper, check your system documentation.

This command has the following format:

seagent

More information:

seoswd Daemon

sepmdd Daemon (UNIX)