Calendar Server Daemons

Calendar Server includes two daemons that communicate to the ENS daemon, enpd:

• csadmind

  The csadmind daemon contains a publisher that submits notifications to the notification service by sending alarm events to ENS. It manages the Calendar Server alarm queue. It implements a scheduler, which lets it know when an alarm has to be generated. At such a point, csadmind publishes an event. ENS receives and dispatches the event notification.

  To ensure alarm transfer reliability, csadmind requires acknowledgment for certain events or event types. (See Alarm Transfer Reliability.) The csadmind daemon uses Reliable Event Notification Links (RENLs) to accomplish acknowledgment.

• csnotifyd

  The csnotifyd daemon is the subscriber that expresses interest in particular events (subscribes), and receives notifications about these subscribed-to events from ENS, and sends notice of these events and todos (tasks) to its clients by email.

  Though the ability to unsubscribe is part of the ENS architecture, csnotifyd does not bother to unsubscribe to events for the following two reasons: there is no need to unsubscribe or resubscribe during normal runtime; and due to the temporary nature of the subscriptions store (it is held in memory), all subscriptions are implicitly unsubscribed when the connection to ENS is shutdown.

  The csnotifyd daemon subscribes to enp:///ics/alarm/. The todo (task) or event is specified in a parameter.