Visara Master Console Center Administration Guide User Manual

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Visara Master Console Center

icsmaster.txt and masterwnd.txt: Configuring Shutdown

ICSMASTER is the master MCC program that starts and stops all MCC daemon
programs. Masterwnd is the program associated with the master GUI window
that is used to view active users, log in/out, and administer the MCC.

When the MCC is shut down, ICSMASTER checks that all MCC programs

terminate normally.

At a normal MCC shutdown, the file $ICSHOME/config/icsmaster.txt

contains regular expressions which are searched for in the active process list,
and are stopped. Searching stops when ICSMASTER stops.

At a normal MCC shutdown, the file $ICSHOME/config masterwnd.txt

contains regular expressions which are searched for in the active process list
when masterwnd is exiting. Searching stops when mastrwnd stops.
If any process is found in the regular expression matching, all of its child
processes are also stopped. For instance, if gclrund is stopped, all of its child
script processes are also stopped, including those which may be Unix shell
scripts started as SYSEXEC commands. The only process left running by default
(if it exists) is the screen editor. This way, unsaved files are not discarded
inadvertently.

Caution: The icsmaster.txt and mastrwnd.txt files should only be

modified by Visara personnel.

For information on using ICSMASTER as a command line utility, refer to
ICSMASTER on page 208.