Overview - DCE Configuration
Overview of DCE gave some examples of organizations that could benefit from a Distributed Computing Environment. The examples showed that DCE could be useful to organizations for widely varying reasons. Similarly, one organization using DCE could require a DCE configuration that is quite different from the DCE configuration that another organization develops.
This topic gives an overview of DCE configuration. It describes the basic DCE software configuration components, and how they are organized on different types of DCE machines. It then describes some typical DCE cell configurations.
The DCE configuration description in this topic is based on technical configuration considerations. The packaging of DCE software by OSF and other vendors will involve somewhat different configurations, since the packaging is influenced by additional considerations.