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NIS information you can view

You can view information about NIS master and slave servers, netgroup caches, and performance statistics.

The nis info command displays the following types of NIS information:

  • NIS domain name
  • Last time the local group cache was updated
  • The following information about each NIS server that was polled by your storage system:
    • IP address of the NIS server
    • Type of NIS server
    • State of the NIS server
    • Whether your storage system is bound to the NIS server
    • Time of polling
  • Information about the NIS netgroup cache
    • The status of the cache
    • The status of the '*.*' entry in the cache
    • The status of the '*.nisdomain' entry in the cache
  • Whether an NIS slave is enabled
  • NIS master server
  • Last time the NIS map was checked by the NIS slave
  • NIS performance statistics:
    • Number of YP lookup network retransmissions
    • Total time spent in YP lookups
    • Number of network retransmissions
    • Minimum time spent in a YP lookup
    • Maximum time spent in a YP lookup
    • Average time spent in a YP lookup
  • Response statistics for the three most recent YP lookups

For more information about the nis info command and resulting display, see the na_nis(1) man page.