3.4 Interacting with the Director
The Director automatically starts along with the system and normally does not require additional attention; however, this chapter explains how to interact with it whenever you must affect its operation for some reason.
You interact with the Director by sending it commands from the command prompt of the system where WEBES is installed. These commands impact all of WEBES and are not limited to only the SEA tool. The Director commands perform WEBES-level tasks such as configuring port settings, activating automatic notification, or viewing your service obligation.
3.4.1 Permissions
To run any of the commands described in this chapter, you must be a privileged user as described in Section 2.2.
3.4.2 Clusters
Even if SEA is installed on a cluster, commands only impact the local node. If you want to modify an entire cluster you must perform the desired operation on each node.
3.4.3 DESTA
Distributed Enterprise Service Tools Architecture (DESTA) is the engineering code name for the WEBES software suite architecture, central to which is the Director. DESTA has become the name of the command that affects the Director.