VMS Help RPC, Admin Intro  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

      intro

      NAME
           Introduction to the DCE daemon and RPC control program
           commands

      DESCRIPTION
           RPC provides two administrative facilities, the DCE
           daemon and the RPC control program.

             o  The DCE daemon is a process that provides the endpoint
                map service, which maintains the local endpoint map for
                local RPC servers and looks up endpoints for RPC
                clients.  An endpoint is the address of a specific
                instance of a server executing in a particular address
                space on a given system (a server instance). Each
                endpoint can be used on a system by only one server at
                a time.

                An endpoint map is a database where servers register
                their binding information, including endpoints, for
                each of their RPC interfaces and the associated RPC
                objects. Each combination of binding information,
                interface identifier, and object UUID uses a distinct
                element in the local endpoint map.

                Running the DCE$RPC_STARTUP.COM procedure starts the
                RPC daemon. The DCE$RPC_SHUTDOWN.COM procedure is used
                to stop the RPC daemon.

             o  The control program provides a set of commands for managing
                endpoint maps.  The control program supports showing endpoint
                map elements and removing any set of map elements from the
                local endpoint map or from any remote endpoint map.

                The rpccp command starts the RPC control program
                (DCE$RPCCP.EXE).

      EXIT VALUES
           The RPC control program reports RPC error messages on the
           command line.  If the command executes successfully, the
           value returned is 1 (one); otherwise, the value is an OpenVMS
           DCE error status.

      RELATED INFORMATION
           Type HELP RPC for help about:

           Commands:  dced rpccp

 STARTING and STOPPING RPC:

 The RPC daemon can be started or stopped with the two new command files
 DCE$RPC_STARTUP.COM and DCE$RPC_SHUTDOWN.COM, which are located in
 SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR].

 STARTING:
 	To start the DCE daemon, execute DCE$RPC_STARTUP.COM.
         The following options may be specified:

 	[NO]CONFIRM - Turns user prompting on or off.  CONFIRM is the
 	default.

 STOPPING:
 	To stop the Remote Procedure Call daemon execute
 	DCE$RPC_SHUTDOWN.COM.  The following options may
 	be specified in any order.

 	[NO]CONFIRM - Turns user prompting on or off.  CONFIRM is the
 	default.

 	CLEAN - Deletes all entries from the RPC endpoint database.

 	Note:  The DCE daemon must not be stopped if any DCE components
 	       or RPC applications are running on the system.