Using DBIS

Using DBIS

This section discusses how to use DBIS. This assumes the steps in [Installing DBIS] and [Configuring DBIS] have been completed.

• [Cache Manager Daemon] discusses dbis-cachemgr and how to configure it.

• [Client Tool] discusses the dbis client tool that can be used for querying data in any map from the command-line.

• [Getent] demonstrates using the system-supplied getent tool to retrieve data from the standard NSS maps.

• [Python API] discusses the programming interface that can be used from other Python programs to obtain the same data available to the command-line tool.

• [Perl API] discusses the Perl programming interface.

• [C API] discusses the C programming interface.