NAME

       ipnadminep - administrative endpoint task for the IPN scheme

SYNOPSIS

       ipnadminep

DESCRIPTION

       ipnadminep is a background "daemon" task that receives and processes administrative
       bundles (all custody signals and, nominally, all bundle status reports) that are sent to
       the IPN-scheme administrative endpoint on the local ION node, if and only if such an
       endpoint was established by bpadmin.  It is spawned automatically by bpadmin in response
       to the 's' (START) command that starts operation of Bundle Protocol on the local ION node,
       and it is terminated by bpadmin in response to an 'x' (STOP) command.  ipnadminep can also
       be spawned and terminated in response to START and STOP commands that pertain specifically
       to the IPN scheme.

       ipnadminep responds to custody signals as specified in the Bundle Protocol specification,
       RFC 5050.  It responds to bundle status reports by logging ASCII text messages describing
       the reported activity.

EXIT STATUS

       "0" ipnadminep terminated, for reasons noted in the ion.log file.  If this termination was
           not commanded, investigate and solve the problem identified in the log file and use
           bpadmin to restart ipnadminep.

       "1" ipnadminep was unable to attach to Bundle Protocol operations or was unable to load
           the IPN scheme database, probably because bpadmin has not yet been run.

FILES

       No configuration files are needed.

ENVIRONMENT

       No environment variables apply.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The following diagnostics may be issued to the ion.log log file:

       ipnadminep can't attach to BP.
           bpadmin has not yet initialized BP operations.

       ipnadminep can't load routing database.
           ipnadmin has not yet initialized the IPN scheme.

       ipnadminep crashed.
           An unrecoverable database error was encountered.  ipnadminep terminates.

BUGS

       Report bugs to <ion-bugs@korgano.eecs.ohiou.edu>

SEE ALSO

       bpadmin(1), ipnadmin(1), bprc(5).