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ACCESS Record

Use the ACCESS record to identify the minidisks used by the CA VM:Director product server.

ACCESS name vaddr filemode

Configuration File

ACCESS is defined in the PRODUCT CONFIG file.

Definitions

name

Specifies the name of one of the CA VM:Director server minidisks. This name must also match the disk label found at the specified minidisk address. You specify one of the following values for

minidisk

:

• AUDT

  to specify the audit file minidisk
• BKUP to specify the source directory backup minidisk
• COMMON to specify the Servant Facility common minidisk.

  The product server dynamically allocates and initializes a new COMMON minidisk every time you save changes to the PRODUCT CONFIG file.

  The COMMON disk contains all modules and EXECs needed by the Servant Facility to manage minidisks. The COMMON disk is re-initialized automatically when the product initialization occurs and when the PRODUCT CONFIG file changes.

• DRCT

  to specify the source directory minidisk
• HOLD to specify the minidisk containing directory entries which are in held status.
• LOG to specify the Single System Image transaction logging minidisk

Note: For more information about the minidisks used by CA VM:Director, see Backing up CA VM:Director, in the chapter "Managing CA VM:Director" in the Administration Guide.

vaddr

Specifies the virtual address of the minidisk to be accessed.

filemode

Specifies the access mode letter to be used when accessing the minidisk.

Description

An ACCESS record must exist for each of the three required database minidisks, DRCT, BKUP, and HOLD. These database minidisks must contain only files placed there by CA VM:Director. Do not allocate the DRCT and BKUP minidisks on the same physical DASD. The BKUP minidisk, in combination with backups you run on a regular basis, is used to restore the current CA VM:Director directory database if a hardware failure results in the loss of the DRCT minidisk.

Note: Do not directly modify files on the BKUP, DRCT, or HOLD minidisks while CA VM:Director is running. Use the appropriate CA VM:Director command to update any files on these minidisks; otherwise, unpredictable results may occur.

(CA VM:Secure only) You must have an ACCESS RULE record in the PRODUCT CONFIG file to activate the Rules Facility.

Examples

• These ACCESS records identify the three required directory database minidisks with the recommended virtual addresses and access modes:

  ACCESS DRCT 1B0 U
  ACCESS BKUP 1B1 V
  ACCESS HOLD 1B2 H
  

• These ACCESS records identify the two optional minidisks with the recommended virtual addresses and access modes:

  ACCESS AUDT 1D0 T
  ACCESS COMMON 194 C
  

• This ACCESS record (CA VM:Secure only) identifies the optional Rules Facility minidisk, with the recommended virtual address and access mode:

  ACCESS RULE 1B4 R