Chapter 25. Auxiliary Utilities

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25.1. Short info about auxiliary utilities provided with the Massiv

25.1. Short info about auxiliary utilities provided with the Massiv

Several simple administration utilities are provided with the Massiv. Source of the utilities are located in the src/utility directory. The following table summarizes all the utilities:

Table 25.1. Utilities
NameFunction
gencfgGenerate configuration for a set of nodes
generate_key_pairGenerate RSA key pair
pwd_encryptEncrypt a file
pwd_decryptDecrypt a file
pack_volumePack files into a volume
unpack_volumeUnpack files from a volume
list_volumeList contents of a volume

The following table lists names of the utility binaries when installed on Unixish systems. Different names are used to prevent name clashes. If you want to install the utilities into directory specified in the PATH environment variable on Win32 systems, you should probably rename them in similar way.

Table 25.2. Un*x utility binary names
Utility NameName of the Binary
gencfgmassiv-gencfg
generate_key_pairmassiv-genkey
pwd_encryptmassiv-encrypt
pwd_decryptmassiv-decrypt
pack_volumemassiv-pack
unpack_volumemassiv-unpack
list_volumemassiv-list

The following pages contain thorough description of the individual utilities.