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Introduction
1.1 Scope of Manual
This manual describes the Resource Management System (RMS). The manual’s purpose
is to provide a technical overview of the RMS system, its functionality and
programmable interfaces. It covers the RMS daemons, client applications, the RMS
database, the system call interface to the RMS kernel module and the application
program interface to the RMS database.
1.2 Audience
This manual is intended for system administrators and developers. It provides a
detailed technical description of the operation and features of RMS and describes the
programming interface between RMS and third-party systems.
The manual assumes that the reader is familiar with the following:
• UNIX
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operating system including shell scripts
• C programming language
1.3 Using this Manual
This manual contains ten chapters and five appendices. The contents of these are as
follows:
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