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• Modified the DMG table. In support of the new HPSS RPC library, the TCP port was
eliminated and the Program and Version numbers were added to DMG specific configuration.
• Modified the DMGFILESET table. The TCP port was eliminated and the TCP hostname and
RPC endpoint information was added.
• Modified the GATEKEEPER table. The length of site policy pathname was changed from 127
to 1023 characters.
• Modified the LSPOLICY table. The group name was eliminated and realm name was added.
Changed length of local site name from 31 to 255 characters.
• Modified the MOVERDEVICE table. In support of the new SAN3P capabilities, SanID was
added to mover device configuration. Since this is new to HPSS 6.2, these will be set to 0 for
all mover devices.
• The NDCG table is now obsolete. It has been renamed, but left intact.
• Modified the NFS table. In support of the new authentication mechanisms, the credential
object ID has been eliminated. Privileged caller principal length was changed from 15 to 255
characters.
• SSSTATS table is now obsolete. It has been renamed, but left intact.
• Modified the SERVER table. In support of the new HPSS RPC library, the authorization
service and authentication service information has been eliminated. Request queue size
information, RPC program, version number, and authentication mechanism information has
been added, along with new index definitions.
• Added the SERVERINTERFACES table. This table is populated by the metadata converter
programs with newly created server interface information.
• Modified the SITE table. The descriptive and LS group names have been eliminated, and site
and realm names were added. The pre-6.2 SITE table will be renamed to PRE62_SITE but the
metadata in the table will not be converted into the new SITE table since remote sites are no
longer supported.
• Modified the STORAGESEGDISK table. A new index is required for this table to support
the new disk space allocation mechanism.
1.4.3. DMAP Gateway Changes
Since DFS is no longer supported, the logic to support DFS in the DMAP Gateway has been
removed. DMAP Gateway will only support XFS in 6.2. Changes were also made in the underlying
RPC mechanism used for communication with the HDM. The ability to delete the DMAP Gateway
and Core Server components of an XDSM Fileset have been removed. Changes made to the SSM
windows to support XFS are described below.
X F S i s n o t s u p p o r t e d i n H P S S 6 . 2 . X F S r e f e r e n c e s h a v e b e e n l e f t i n t h e H P S S d o c u m e n t a t i o n t o s u p p o r t t h e o p t i o n o f r e - e n a b l i n g X F S i n f u t u r e r e l e a s e s .
1.4.3.1. Creating an XDSM Fileset
• The “Create HPSS/XDSM Fileset” window has been renamed ”Create XDSM Fileset”. This
window is currently not accessible since XFS is not supported.
• Fields specific to DFS fileset creation have been removed. Since HPSS managed XFS
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