The commands in the bos command suite are the administrative interface to the Basic OverSeer (BOS) Server, which runs on every file server machine to monitor the other server processes on it. If a process fails, the BOS Server can restart it automatically, taking into account interdependencies between it and other processes. The BOS Server frees system administrators from constantly monitoring the status of server machines and processes.
There are several categories of commands in the bos command suite:
- Commands to administer server process binary files: bos getdate, bos getfile, bos install, bos prune, and bos uninstall.
- Commands to maintain system configuration files: bos addhost, bos addkey, bos adduser, bos listhosts, bos listkeys, bos listusers, bos removehost, bos removekey, bos removeuser, and bos setcellname.
- Commands to start and stop processes: bos create, bos delete, bos restart, bos shutdown, bos start, bos startup, and bos stop.
- Commands to set and verify server process and server machine status: bos getlog, bos getrestart, bos getrestricted, bos setauth, bos setrestart, bos setrestricted and bos status.
- A command to restore file system consistency: bos salvage.
- A command to debug authentication identities: bos whoami.
- Commands to obtain help: bos apropos and bos help.
- Command to display the program version: bos version.
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