Global Location Broker

The Global Location Broker (GLB), which can run as either the glbd daemon or the nrglbd daemon, manages information about the objects and interfaces available to users on the network. In an internet, at least one GLB must be running on each network.

The GLB database is accessed manually by using the lb_admin command. The lb_admin command is useful to manually correct errors in the database. For example, if a server starts while the GLB is not running, you can manually enter the information for the server in the GLB database. Similarly, if a server terminates abnormally without unregistering itself, you can use the lb_admin command to manually remove its entry from the GLB database.