1mms(5)                Standards, Environments, and Macros               mms(5)
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NAME

6       mms - MMS service overview
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DESCRIPTION

9       MMS  is a distributed removable media management system. It is based on
10       the standard, IEEE 1244, Media Management System (MMS).
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13       The current implementation of MMS manages tapes and cartridges in a Sun
14       StorageTek  ACSLS tape library and emulated tapes on a file system. MMS
15       is capable of sharing drives among multiple hosts. An important feature
16       of  MMS  is that it provides a uniform and consistent tape interface to
17       its client applications.
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20       MMS consists of a media manager (MM) which manages the entire MMS  sys‐
21       tem. Information about the system is maintained by MM in a database.
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24       Every  library managed by MMS has an active library manager (LM). An LM
25       provides library access and mounting service to MMS.
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28       A drive managed by MMS has a drive manager (DM) on each host  that  has
29       access  to  the  drive.  A DM provides device specific operations. A DM
30       also provides label processing.  The  current  implementation  supports
31       only ANSI labels.
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34       MMS  client applications request MM to mount and unmount cartridges and
35       process them after they are mounted. Applications use the Media Manage‐
36       ment  Protocol  (MMP) to make requests. A library of client application
37       functions is available.
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40       The Solaris implementation of the MMS uses the mmsinit(1M)  command  to
41       configure  and start the MMS service and the mmsadm(1M) command to list
42       and set parameters required by the service.
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45       The MMS service instances, as reported by svcs(1), are:
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63       The MMS service RBAC (see rbac(5)) authorizations are:
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70       The following are the MMS service configuration data accessible through
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75           Host  is  media manager or watcher only. Valid values are server or
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81           Host name where the media manager is running.
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86           Port the media manager is using.
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91           Media Manager is using SSL. Valid values are true  or  false.  Note
92           the  Media  Manager needs an SSL RSA certificate and Diffie-Hellman
93           parameters must be 'true'.
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98           Media Manager-only value, determines whether two-way authentication
99           is  enabled,  which  requires all Media Manager clients to have SSL
100           RSA certificate. Valid values are are true for two-way  authentica‐
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106           Name  of  file  that contains the SSL RSA certificate, private key,
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112           Name of file for the private key password phrase if  the  RSA  cer‐
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118           Media Manager-only value, name of file that stores the Diffie-Hell‐
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129           Optional cipher change from EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA.
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134           Optional client only, name of file that stores  the  media  manager
135           certificate.  The  certificate  is  checked against the certificate
136           returned by SSL_get_peer_certificate() function.
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140       The following are the MMS Database fault management resource identifier
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145           Directory  where the PostgreSQL binaries are located. The directory
146           is specific to the version of PostgreSQL qualified for use  by  the
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152           Directory  where  the  PostgreSQL  database is located. The default
153           location is  a version-specific subdirectory of /var/mms/db.
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157       The following are the MMS Media Manager FMRI configuration data:
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161           For future use. Set to localhost.
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166           Port number to use for PostgreSQL login. The default value is 7656.
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171           PostgreSQL user name. The default user name is postgres.
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176           Name of PostgreSQL database to which to connect. The default  value
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182           Optional.  The  Media  Manager trace level before connecting to the
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188           Number of times to wait for the database to accept a Media  Manager
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194           Number of seconds to wait  between reconnect tries.
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198       The following are the MMS Watcher FMRI configuration data:
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202           Path to ACSLS SSI daemon.
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207           Path to ACSLS API library.
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ATTRIBUTES

211       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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216       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
217       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
218       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
219       │Interface Stability          │Committed                    │
220       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

223       svcs(1),   mmsadm(1M),   mmsclient(1M),  mmsexplorer(1M),  mmsinit(1M),
224       mmsclient_script(4), attributes(5), rbac(5), smf(5)
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