Management Processes - Cisco ASR 5500 System Administration Manual

Management Processes

Task Description
nscontrol Name Service Controller
ntpd Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Daemon
rct Recovery Control Task
sct Shared Configuration Task
sft Switch Fabric Task
sshd Secure SHell Daemon
ucm Utilities Configuration
Manager
Management Processes
Table 28: Management Process Tasks
Task Description
bulkstat Bulk Statistics Manager
evlogd Event Log Daemon
orbs ORBEM Service
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Function
As part of the Messenger process, provides a reliable channel for tasks to
send control messages to the Messenger Daemon.
Maintains the system time in synchronization with time servers using NTP.
Enabled when one or more NTP servers have been configured via the NTP
Configuration mode ntp server CLI command.
Monitors tasks/managers/facilities across the system and performs recovery
in the event of a failure.
Performs the redundant storage of configuration information and other
state information in an in-memory database.
Monitors the switch fabric and the gigabit Ethernet control plane.
Supports secure login to the StarOS CLI. Enabled via the Context
Configuration mode server sshd CLI command.
DHCPD, DNS, FTPD, INETD, NTPD, PING, RLOGIN, SFTPD,
SFTP-SERVER, SNMPD, SSH, SSHD, TELNET, TELNETD, TFTPD,
TRACEROUTE
Note: In release 20.0 and higher Trusted StarOS builds, FTP and Telnet
are not supported.
Function
Periodically polls and gathers bulk statistics and transfers this data to
external management systems.
Handles event logging functions including the interface to external syslogd
servers and the internal event logs.
The orbs task is also known as the ORB Element Manager (ORBEM).
An Element Management System (EMS) requests orbs to perform Element
Management Functions on the system using secure IIOP. ORBS then
interacts with concerned Controller Tasks to execute the function.
The response/errors from the execution are interpreted, formulated into an
EMF response, and handed off to EMS servers.
StarOS Tasks