A    Administration Utilities

This appendix identifies and defines the administrative utilities and commands that are invoked as described in Chapter 1.

A.1    The X11 Graphical User Interfaces (CDE Application Manager)

The X11-based graphical utilities (GUIs) are available in the CDE Application Manager or from the command line. In some cases, the GUIs have analogous SysMan utilities or have been superseded by a SysMan Menu task. Invoke these utilities as described in Chapter 1.

You may want to continue using a more familiar utility until you become familiar with the SysMan Menu. You may also have created command shells that perform administrative tasks, using the familiar commands. To help you understand the utilities that you can use, Table A-1 to Table A-6 list the utilities and each table provides the following information:

• The subsystem to be configured and utilities that are invoked from icons in the CDE Application Manager. These may be:

  • X11-compliant Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), such as the Kernel Tuner.

  • SysMan Menu utilities that can run in a number of different user environments.

  • Command-line scripts. Note that you must install the OSFRETIREDXXX subsets to access some of these scripts, as described in the Installation Guide.

• The SysMan Menu task. Text in brackets, such as [dns], are the command options that you can use with the sysman command to invoke a utility directly from the command prompt. For example:

  # sysman dns
  # sysman dns_client
  

  The first command example invokes the submenu of all DNS tasks. The second invokes the specific utility to configure the local system as a DNS client.

• The commands (command-line options) that perform the equivalent task.

In addition to the icons that invoke the SysMan Menu and SysMan Station and System Setup, the Application Manager provides the following folders containing system administration utilities:

• Configuration - Table A-1 lists the configuration utilities, which are used for initial system configuration and regular system maintenance.

• Daily Admin - Table A-2 lists the daily administration utilities, which are used for routine system administration tasks.

• MonitoringTuning - Table A-3 lists the utilities that are used for monitoring system operation and performance tuning.

• Software_Management - Table A-4 lists the utilities that are used for monitoring system operation and performance tuning.

• Storage_Management - Table A-5 lists the utilities that are used for administering file systems and storage.

• Tools - Table A-6 lists utilities that provide system statistics.

Table A-1:  System Administration Configuration Applications

Table A-2:  System Administration Daily Admin Applications

Table A-3:  System Administration Monitoring and Tuning Applications

Table A-4:  System Administration Software Management Applications

Table A-5:  System Administration Storage Management Applications

Table A-6:  System Administration Tools

A.2    The SysMan Menu Tasks and Associated Utilities

The tables listed in Section A.1 identify the GUIs and command-line utilities that perform similar functions to the various SysMan Menu tasks. The following SysMan Menu utilities are available. Note that the accelerator keyword in brackets, such as [accounts], can be used to launch a utility from the command line using the sysman command:

• Accounts [accounts] - Enables you to maintain user accounts and access to system resources. Refer to Chapter 7 for information on administering user accounts and the Network Administration guide for information on NIS. The Accounts tasks provided are as follows:

  • Manage local users [users] - Administer the /etc/passwd file, which records user accounts data

  • Manage local groups [groups] - Administer the /etc/group file, which records user resource access data

  • NIS Users [nis_passwd] - Administer NIS user accounts

  • NIS Groups [nis_groups] - Administer NIS user groups

• Hardware [hardware] - Enables you to display information about system hardware and peripheral devices. Refer to Chapter 5 for information on administering user accounts. The hardware tasks provided are as follows:

  • View hardware hierarchy [hw_hierarchy] - Displays all the system components as a hierarchy. For example, the CPU, its buses and all devices attached to the buses.

  • View cluster [hw_cluhierarchy] - Displays the hierarchy of all members of a cluster.

  • View device information [hw_devices] - Displays a list of all devices (such as disks) attached to the system.

  • View central processing unit (CPU) information [hw_cpus] - Displays the type of processors on the system and their status, such as time on line.

• Mail [mail] - Enables you to configure email and manage mail accounts. The mail tasks provided are as follows:

  • Configure mail [mailsetup] - Enables you to configure the electronic mail services on the system.

  • Manage users' mail accounts [mailusradm] - Enables you to set up email for system account holders.

• Monitoring and Tuning [monitoring] - Enables you to configure and use system event-reporting and tuning utilities. This task provides the following utilities:

  • View events [event_viewer] - Enables you to invoke the Event Manager viewer. See the EVM(5) reference page and Chapter 13 for more information.

  • Set up Insight Manager [imconfig] - Enables you to configure the Insight Manager. Refer to Chapter 1 for more information.

  • Class Scheduling [class_sched] - Enables you to allocate CPU time resources to groups of processes. See the class_admin(8) reference page and Chapter 3 for more information. This task provides the following utilities:

    • Configure Class Scheduler [class_setup] - Enables you to create scheduling databases that govern the use of system resources (such as CPU time) by processes. You can also set a current schedule.

    • [Re]Start Class Scheduler [class_start] - Starts the scheduling daemon to implement the currently-selected schedule.

    • Stop Class Scheduler [class_stop] - Stops the scheduling daemon and turns off resource sharing.

  • View Virtual Memory (VM) Statistics [vmstat] - Enables you to monitor virtual memory statistics. See the vmstat(1) reference page for more information.

  • View Input/Output (I/O) Statistics [iostat] - Enables you to monitor I/O (input/output) statistics. See the iostat(1) reference page for more information.

  • View Uptime statistics [uptime] - Enables you to monitor how long the system has been up, and what the average workload has been since the last boot. See the uptime(1) reference page for more information.

• Networking [network] - Enables you to set up and administer network resources. The utilities provided are as follows:

  • Network Setup Wizard [net_wizard] - A utility that guides you through the steps of setting up the network environment. Refer to Chapter 1 for a brief overview. See the Network Administration guide for more information on networking configuration options.

  • Basic Networking Services [networkbasic] - A set of tasks you can perform to configure the most commonly used individual networking features. This task provides the following utilities:

    • Set up Network Interface Card(s) [interface] - Enables you to configure network devices, providing information such as the TCP/IP address and network mask.

    • Set up static routes (/etc/routes) [route] - Enables you to set up the network to use static routes, and defines a router node. The most common form of communication with local and remote networks. See the Network Administration guide for more information.

    • Set up routing services (gated, routed, or an IP router) [routing] - Enables you to configure the network to use a particular method of routing. Your options are Gateway Routing Daemon (gated), Routing Daemon (routed), or an Internet Protocol (IP) Router. See the Network Administration guide for more information.

    • Set up hosts file (/etc/hosts) [host] - Enables you to add remote host systems to the /etc/hosts file. This makes the hosts known to the local system so that network communication can be established.

    • Set up hosts equivalency (/etc/hosts.equiv) [hosteq] - Enables you to add remote host systems and users to the /etc/hosts.equiv file. This enables users on remote hosts to use resources on the local system. (Refer to the Security guide for information on security risks associated with host equivalency).

    • Set up remote who services (rwhod) [rwhod] - Enables you to obtain information on users of the local network.

    • Set up the networks file (/etc/networks) [networks] - Enables you to specify networks known to the local system.

    • Configure asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) [atm] - Set up ATM services and configure ATM adapters. See the Network Administration guide for more information.

  • Additional Network Services [networkadditional] - A set of utilities you can use to configure other networking features. This task provides the following utilities:

    • Domain Name Service (DNS (BIND)) Configuration [dns] - Configure domain name services on the local system. The following utilities are provided:

      • Configure the system as DNS client [dns_client]

      • Configure the system as DNS server [dns_server]

      • Deconfigure DNS on this system [dns_deconfigure]

    • Serial-Line Networking [serial_line] - Enables you to configure the following serial-line networking options:

      • Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) [ppp] - Enables you to configure PPP, including the following tasks:

        • Option files [ppp_options]

        • Modify pap-secrets file [pap]

        • Modify chap-secrets file [chap]

        See the Network Administration guide for more information.

    • Configure the system for UNIX-to-UNIX copy (uucp) connections [uucp] - Enables you to configure uucp over a modem, TCP/IP, or hardwired connection. See the Network Administration guide for more information.

  • Network Time Protocol (NTP) [ntp] - Enables the automatic regulation on the system's internal clock by comparing time values with a server, or to act as a time server to client systems. See the Network Administration guide for more information. The following utilities are available:

    • Configure system as an NTP client [ntpconfig]

    • View status of NTP Daemon [ntp_status]

    • [Re]start NTP daemon [ntp_start]

    • Stop NTP Daemon [ntp_stop]

  • Network File System Configuration (NFS) [nfs] -- Enables you to configure Network File System, and share file systems between hosts. See the Network Administration guide for more information. This task provides the following utilities:

    • View NFS configuration status [nfs_config_status]

    • Configure system as an NFS client [nfs_client]

    • Deconfigure system as an NFS client [nfs_deconfig_client]

    • Configure system as an NFS server [nfs_server]

    • Deconfigure system as an NFS server [nfs_deconfig_server]

    • View NFS daemon status [nfs_daemon_status]

    • [Re]start NFS daemons [nfs_start]

    • Stop NFS daemons [nfs_stop]

  • Configure Network Information Service Configuration [nis] - Enables you to allow users to use the resources of networked systems, such as logging in to different hosts. User names and passwords are distributed between hosts. See the Network Administration guide for more information.

  • Configure Local Area Transport (LAT) [lat] - Enables you to set up LAT. See the Network Administration guide for more information.

  • View network daemon status [dmnstatus] - Enables you to check the status of the various network daemons such as gated or rwhod.

  • [Re]start Network Services [inet_start] - Enables you to start or restart any stopped networking daemons such as gated or rwhod.

  • Stop Network Services [inet_stop] - Enables you to stop all network services.

• Printing [printers] - Enables you to configure system print facilities. This task invokes the following utility:

  • Configure line printers [lprsetup] - Enables you to add local and remote (networked) print devices to the list of available devices, and make these resources available to users.

• Security [security] - Enables you to administer system security, system auditing, and privileged user access to administrative utilities. See the Security guide for more information. The following utilities are provided:

  • Configure Division of Privileges (DOP) [dopconfig] - Enables you to give any user full access to privileged programs such as SysMan Menu tasks. See the Security guide and the dop(8) reference page for more information.

  • Security Configuration [secconfig] - Enables you to configure base or enhanced security.

  • Audit Configuration [auditconfig] - Enables you to set up and start security auditing.

• Software [software] - Enables you to manage operating system and layered software installations and updates. This task provides the following utilities:

  • Install software [setldload] - Enables you to add software to the system from a RIS server or from the distribution media (CD-ROM).

  • List installed software [setldlist] - Enables you to list software that is currently installed on the system.

  • Remove installed software [setldd] - Enables you to permanently remove software from the system.

  • Clean up after an OS update [updadmin] - Enables you to remove unnecessary files from the system to save space or archive files to tape after running an installation update (updateinstall).

• Register License data [lmfsetup] - Enables you to register software product authorization keys (PAKs).

• Storage [storage] - Enables you to administer file systems and data storage. The following utilities are provided:

  • File Systems Management Utilities [filesystems] - Enables basic administration of disk storage. See Chapter 6 for more information. The following utilities are provided:

    • Dismount a File System [dismount]

    • Display Currently Mounted File Systems [df]

    • Mount File Systems [mount]

    • Share Local Directory (/etc/exports) [export]

    • Mount Network Directory (/etc/fstab) [net_mount]

  • Advanced File System Utilities [advfs] - Enables you to perform basic administration tasks on AdvFS domains. See the advfs(4) reference page and AdvFS Administration guide for more information. The following utilities are provided:

    • Manage an AdvFS domain [domain_manager]

    • Manage an AdvFS File [file_manager]

    • Defragment an AdvFS Domain [defrag]

    • Create a New AdvFS Domain [mkfdmn]

    • Create a New AdvFS Fileset [mkfset]

    • Recover Files from an AdvFS Domain [salvage]

    • Repair an AdvFS Domain [verify]

  • UNIX File System (UFS) Utilities [ufs] - Enables you to perform basic administration tasks on UFS. See Chapter 6 for more information on administering UFS. The following utility is provided:

    • Create a New UFS File System [newfs] - Enables you to write a new file system to a disk partition.

  • Logical Storage Manager (LSM) Utilities [lsm] - Enables you to perform basic administration of Logical Storage Manager (LSM) volumes. See the Logical Storage Manager guide for more information. The following utility is provided:

    • Initialize the Logical Storage Manager (LSM) [volsetup]

  • Create a Bootable Tape [boot_tape] - Enables you to create a standalone kernel on a bootable tape, which can assist in disaster recovery. See the btcreate(8), btextract(8) and Chapter 9 for more information.

• Support and Services [support] - Enables you to run preconfigured sys_check system census tasks as part of troubleshooting and error recovery, or in case you need to escalate a problem to Customer Support services. See Chapter 3 and the sys_check(8) reference page for information. The following utilities are available:

  • Create escalation report [escalation] - Enables you to prepare a system census report for delivery to Technical Support services.

  • Create configuration report [config_report] - Enables you to prepare a system census report as a baseline, troubleshooting, or tuning purposes.

• General Tasks [general_tasks] - Provides you with a set of miscellaneous administrative utilities as follows:

  • Shut down the system [shutdown] - Enables you to perform managed shutdowns of the system. See the shutdown(8) and Chapter 2 for more information.

  • Quick Setup [quicksetup] - Runs the basic system setup wizard, which guides you through typical basic system configuration. See Chapter 1 for a description of the features.

  • Configure Prestoserve software [presto] - Enables you to configure Prestoserve. Refer to the Guide to Prestoserve for more information.

  • Configure the X Display Manager [xsetup] - Enables you to select CDE or XDM as the default windowing environment.

  • Cloning setup information [cloneinfo] - Displays information on using the sysman -clone command to clone your system's configuration and apply it to other systems. Refer to the Installation Guide -- Advanced Topics for information on cloning systems.

  • Command-line interface information [sysmancli] - Displays information on using the sysman -cli, a command-line interface for running SysMan tasks from the system prompt, or for shell programming.