How to Set Global Preferences for a Subnet

To assign server preferences in the global table for all the machines on a subnet:

Run nisprefadm with the -G and -C subnet options.

#nisprefadm -G -a -C subnet servers (preferences)

Where:

• -C subnet identifies the IP number of the subnet the preferences will apply to.

• servers(preferences) are one or more servers with optional preference ranking numbers.

  For example, to specify that the subnet 123.123.123.123 use the nismaster and replica3 servers with default preference number s of zero and the manf.replica6 server with a preference number of 1:

polaris# nisprefadm -a -G -C 123.123.123.123 nismaster1 \
replica3 "manf.replica6(1)"