GDS Configurations

· Client Only

A node can contain only the client side of GDS. This node can access remote DSAs and cache some information in the DUA cache.

· Client/Server

A machine can be configured with both the GDS client and server. This is the typical configuration for a machine acting as a GDS server. This configuration can be useful even if a node acts mainly as a client because the DSA can be used as a larger, more permanent cache of information contained in remote DSAs.

The following figure shows a GDS client configuration that goes through the network to access a DSA on another machine running the GDS Client/Server configuration.

GDS Configurations