Identifying the servers

After you have configured the client, you must set up the NFS mounts to provide access to shared custom server information. You must also set up access to the voice server, if that is separate. To do this:

1. Log in as root by typing the command su root
2. Type the following NFS command to create the NFS mount for the custom server directories:

      mknfsmnt
      -f /home/dirTalk/current_dir/ca.ssi
      -d /home/dirTalk/current_dir/ca.local
      -h
      server
      -m ssi
      -H
      -p 32
      -A
      -w bg
      -o 10
      -K 3
      -k udp
      -R 2

   On the -h flag, for server specify the host name of the database server.

   Use the -H option above to hard mount the custom server directories. This is important because is allows Blueworx Voice Response to mount the file systems when required. If the /ca directory is inaccessible because it is set to soft, the AIX Virtual Memory Manager causes a bus error that causes the custom server to core dump. When the mount is set to hard, the custom server waits until the /ca directory becomes available.

   For more information, see The mknfsmnt command.

3. Type the following NFS command to create the NFS mount for the voice files:

      mknfsmnt
      -f /home/dirTalk/current_dir/voice.ssi
      -d /home/dirTalk/current_dir/voice.local
      -h
      server
      -m ssi
      -S
      -p 32
      -A
      -w bg
      -o 10
      -K 3
      -k udp
      -R 2

   On the -h flag, for server specify the host name of the network interface that you want to use for NFS data on the voice server.

   Use the -S option above to soft mount the voice files so that requests to play voice segments can time-out if the server is unavailable.

   Note: If you are configuring your database and voice servers on the same Power System, specify the host name of its network interface on the -h flag.

   For more information, see The mknfsmnt command.

The mknfsmnt command

If you already use NFS on your installation, you might want to specify other flags on the mknfsmnt command so that you maintain the integrity of your system. In the commands shown above, the flags are used like this:

-m

Identifies a mount type for Single System Image

-S

Specifies a soft mount, which allows the client to time-out

-p

Specifies a number of biods for the file system

-A

Causes the mount to be done at startup time

For more information on this NFS command, see the Commands Reference .