RPC.STATD(8) | System Manager's Manual | RPC.STATD(8) |
rpc.statd
— host
status monitoring daemon
rpc.statd |
[-d ] |
rpc.statd
is a daemon which co-operates
with rpc.statd daemons on other hosts to provide a status monitoring
service. The daemon accepts requests from programs running on the local host
(typically, rpc.lockd(8), the NFS file
locking daemon) to monitor the status of specified hosts. If a monitored
host crashes and restarts, the remote daemon will notify the local daemon,
which in turn will notify the local program(s) which requested the
monitoring service. Conversely if this host crashes and restarts when
rpc.statd
restarts, it will notify all of the hosts
which were being monitored at the time of the crash.
The options available are:
-d
LOG_DEBUG
and facility
LOG_DAEMON
. Error conditions are logged
irrespective of this option, using level
LOG_ERR
.The rpc.statd
daemon must NOT be invoked
by inetd(8) because the protocol assumes
that the daemon will run from system start time. Instead, it should be
configured in rc.conf(8) to run at
system startup.
This implementation is based on the specification in the X/Open CAE Specification C218, "Protocols for X/Open PC Interworking: XNFS, Issue 4", ISBN 1 872630 66 9.
A version of rpc.statd
appeared in SunOS
4. The current implementation was ported from NetBSD
to OpenBSD 4.4.
There is no means for the daemon to tell when a monitored host has disappeared permanently (e.g. catastrophic hardware failure), as opposed to transient failure of the host or an intermediate router. At present, it will retry notification attempts at frequent intervals for 10 minutes, then hourly, and finally gives up after 24 hours.
The protocol requires that symmetric monitor requests are made to both the local and remote daemon in order to establish a monitored relationship. This is convenient for the NFS locking protocol, but probably reduces the usefulness of the monitoring system for other applications.
The current implementation uses more than 1Kbyte per monitored host in the status file (and also in VM). This may be inefficient for NFS servers with large numbers of clients.
October 17, 2017 | OpenBSD-current |