Configure a GCS Server

To configure a Group Configuration Server:

1. On the FTP server, create or choose a user account.

If you do not have any user accounts on the server, choose any directory that the FTP server can reach.

2. In the user account's home directory, create a subdirectory. This directory will be used to store all of the configuration files.

You can name this subdirectory anything you choose. For the purpose of this example, the name psgroups is used.

3. In the psgroups directory, create two additional subdirectories:

• nodes — Required name for the directory
• groupname — Choose a name (up to eight characters) appropriate for the group you are defining. For example, img_grp could be used for a group that will share only the software version that you distribute. A group named traf_grp could be used for sharing a traffic configuration.

4. From a workstation, launch an FTP session to the server and verify that you have list, read, and write permission in the subdirectories.

For example:

>ftp liverpool
Connected to liverpool.
220 liverpool FTP server (UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0) ready.
Name (Liverpool:john): john
331 Password required for john.
Password: ******
230 User john logged in.
ftp> cd psgroups
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
total 3
drwxr-xr-x 2 john admin 4096 Jan 26 11:40 beatles
drwxr-xr-x 2 john admin 4096 Jan 29 14:15 nodes
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
ftp> cd nodes
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
Total 2
-rw-rw-rw- 1 john admin 282 Jan 30 15:46 c0a800db.psh
-rw-rw-rw- 1 john admin 231 Jan 30 15:07 c0a800f9.psh
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.
>

Note: In this example, the directory listing for the nodes subdirectory shows two files (c0a800db.psh and c0a800f9.psh). These files will not exist until you are running the Group Configuration Service.

See also:

Group Configuration Service Overview

Register with a Group Server