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NSS Command Line Options

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Novell NetWare 5.0

Novell NetWare 5.1

Novell NetWare 6.0

Formerly TID 2942349

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When you issue the NSS HELP command at the server console, the following are parameters which you can use for NSS:

usage: NSS <options>
Options: (are case insensitive, support unique abbreviations)

Module NSS
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Exit - Unload NSS and all of its modules.

Version - Display version information for NSS.

Modules - Display information about all of the modules loaded into NSS.

Help - Display this help information.

/? - Display this help information.

/(No)SkipLoadModules - If specified, skip the auto loading of the NSS support modules. [StartupOnly Value=OFF]

defaultNLMs - If specified, load only default NSS NLMs, and any additional LSS modules specified on the command line. [StartupOnly]

CD9660 - If specified, load only those modules essential for CD9660 support. [StartupOnly]

CDHFS - If specified, load only those modules essential for CDHFS support. [StartupOnly]

CDROM - If specified, load only those modules essential for CD9660 & CDHFS support. [StartupOnly]

DOSFAT - If specified, load only those modules essential for DOSFAT support. [StartupOnly]

UDF - If specified, load only those modules essential for UDF support. [StartupOnly]

zLSS - If specified, load only those modules essential for zLSS support. [StartupOnly]

noLSS - If specified, do not load any LSS module. [StartupOnly]

allLSS - If specified, load all the LSS modules. [StartupOnly]

NWPRV - If specified, load NWPRV and specify the LSS' that you want to load on the command line. [StartupOnly]

Menu - Start the NSS Configuration Menu.

Module mbCOMN
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Status - Display current NSS status information.

Volumes - Display all of the currently available NSS volumes.

/Activate= - Switch the given volumes to the ACTIVE state.

/Deactivate= - Switch the given volumes to the DEACTIVE state.

/Maintenance= - Switch the given volumes to the MAINTENANCE state.

/ForceActivate= - Force the given volumes to the ACTIVE state.

/VerifyVolume= - Verify the specified volumes physical integrity.

/RebuildVolume= - Rebuild the specified volumes.

/VerifyVolume - Select volumes from a menu and VERIFY their physical integrity.

/RebuildVolume - Select volumes from a menu and REBUILD them.

/AutoActivateVolume= - Places specified volumes in ACTIVE state at volume load time.

/AutoDeactivateVolume= - Leave specified volumes in DEACTIVE state at volume load time.

/AutoVerifyVolume= - Verify the specified volumes physical integrity at startup time.

/StorageAlarmThreshold= - Set the threshold (in megaBytes) for a low storage space warning. [Value=10 Range=0-1000000]

/StorageResetThreshold= - Set the threshold (in megabytes) to reset a low storage space warning. [Value=15 Range=0-1000000]

/(No)StorageAlertMessages - Turn ON/OFF sending of low storage messages to all users. [Value=ON]

/NameCacheSize= - Set the number of Name Cache entries. [StartupOnly Value=2111 Range=3-65521]

/(No)NameCache - Set the name caching ON or OFF. [StartupOnly Value=ON]

/NameCacheStats - Show name caching statistics.

/AuthCacheSize= - Set the number of Authorization Cache entries. [StartupOnly Value=1024 Range=16-50000]

/OpenFileHashShift= - Set the size of the Open File hash table (in powers of 2). [StartupOnly Value=11 Range=8-20]

/ClosedFileCacheSize= - Set the number of closed files that can be cached in memory. [StartupOnly Value=512 Range=1-100000]

/FileFlushTimer= - Set the Flush Time for modified open files in seconds. [Value=10 Range=1-3600]

/MinBufferCacheSize= - Set the minimum number of NSS Buffer Cache entries. [Value=512 Range=256-1048576]

/MinOSBufferCacheSize= - Set the minimum number of NetWare Buffer Cache entries. [Value=1024 Range=1024-1048576]

/BufferFlushTimer= - Set the Flush Time for modified cache buffers in seconds. [Value=1 Range=1-3600]

/(No)CacheBalance - Set the dynamic balancing of free memory for the NSS buffer cache ON or OFF. [StartupOnly Value=ON]

/CacheBalance= - Set what percentage of free memory NSS will use for its buffer cache. [Value=10 Range=1-99]

/CacheBalanceTimer= - Set the Cache Balance Timer in seconds. [Value=30 Range=1-3600]

/CacheStats - Show buffer caching statistics.

/Salvage= - Enable salvage of deleted files on the given volumes.

/NoSalvage= - Disable salvage of deleted files on the given volumes.

/numbonds= stuctures used internally in NSS to do ordered writed

If you need to define nss parameters at boot time (in NetWare 6 only):

server -z"parameter you want" , eg:

server -z"/namecachesize=xxxxx"
server -z"/namecachesize=xxx /cachebalance=yy /numbonds=zzzzz"

alternatively create a file c:\nwserver\nssstart.cfg and put needed parameter into it as follows:

/namecachesize=xxx
/cachebalance=yy
/numbonds=zzzzz

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Document Title: NSS Command Line Options
Document ID: 10021097
Solution ID: 1.0.37496636.2389872
Creation Date: 05NOV1999
Modified Date: 09APR2004
Novell Product Class: NetWare

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