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seagent Daemon

Valid on UNIX

The seagent daemon accepts requests from remote stations, and applies them to the local CA ControlMinder 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 ControlMinder (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 seoslang2 TCP service (whose default value is 8891). 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 points:

• Updating the UNIX user file /etc/passwd, the system 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 ControlMinder uses only port 8891. We recommended that you do not change this port.

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

This command has the following format:

seagent

More information:

seoswd Daemon

sepmdd Daemon (UNIX)