You're supposed to be able to monitor NFS mounted files, either by your FAM server contacting a remote FAM server, or by polling the files.  Unfortunately, we weren't able to get either of those options to work properly.   ("FAM not notifying of non-local changes on NFS file", http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/mail_archive/200304/msg00007.html).

If you do get anything like this running, I'd love to know about it, because it would be helpful for us!  Thanks.

Michael Raymond wrote:

I'm not that familiar with the code, but I know that the documentation does talk about the fam daemon contacting fam daemons on other machines to monitor NFS mounted files. Therefor fam daemons can talk to each other but I doubt that clients can do it. I think one way that the daemon does security is that it only talks to connections coming from secure port(s). Michael On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:48:30AM -0800, Viner, David wrote:

Hi, I know that the fam library uses rpc messages to connect to the fam daemon. Is it possible to connect to a fam daemon on a remote machine (i.e., a machine that is not localhost)? >From looking at the code, it appears to me that this is not possible, since FAMOpen2 constructs the client like this: fc->client = new Client(LOCALHOSTNUMBER, famnumber, famversion); where LOCALHOSTNUMER is #define LOCALHOSTNUMBER 0x7f000001 // Internet number for loopback. thanks dave

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