Keeping Cells Stable

Once you decide how many cells you need and where the boundaries of those cells will be, make an effort to keep your cell structure stable. Servers are not easily moved from one host to another, so be sure to plan your namespace structure carefully in order to minimize reconfiguration. If you do need to move a machine from one cell to another, you must do the following:

· Use the dce_config REMOVE command to remove all configuration data from the machine (if the machine is a client machine, use the dce_config UNCONFIGURE command to remove the client from the cell before using REMOVE).

· Reconfigure the host in the new cell.

· Delete any namespace or registry entries for the host in the old cell.