System Management Graphical Interface Tools

With the release of Digital UNIX Version 4.0, the System Management Graphical Interface Tools become the preferred system administration utilities for the operating system.

System Management Graphical Interface makes your job as a system administrator easier by providing you with a graphical user interface for each of your adminstration tasks, such as installation, configuration, daily administration, monitoring, kernel/process tuning, storage management, and more. These utilities can be accessed through the System_Admin folder in the CDE Application Manager.

While the System Management Graphical Interface Tools were designed to take advantage of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), most of the utilities will work outside of CDE with other window or display managers. Users who are not running CDE can access the utilities individually by invoking them from the command line, provided the DISPLAY environment variable is properly set on their systems. For instance:

# netconfig

It should be noted that many of the System Management Graphical Interface Tools are also available in text-based interfaces that can be displayed on systems that only have character-cell displays. See the section called Text-Based Interfaces for more information.

System Management Graphical Interface Utilities

System Management Graphical Interface offers the following system administration utilities:

Note: The contents of each folder in System Management Graphical Interface can vary depending on which subsets you have installed.

• Configuration Checklist

  You can use these applications to set up your system for general use after Digital UNIX has been installed. See the section called System Setup in Chapter 12 for more information.

• Configuration Applications

  You can use these applications to perform:

  • Network Configuration with netconfig

  • BIND Configuration with bindconfig

  • NFS Configuration with nfsconfig

  • Mail Configuration with mailconfig

  • Print Configuration with printconfig

  • Disk Configuration with diskconfig

  • LAT Configuration with latsetup

  • NIS Configuration with nissetup

• Daily Administration Applications

  After a system has been configured, you can use these applications to perform routine administrative tasks:

  • Account Manager with dxaccounts

  • Archiver with dxarchiver

  • File Sharing with dxfileshare

  • Host Manager with dxhosts

  • License Manager with dxlicenses

  • Shutdown Manager with dxshutdown

  • System Information with dxsysinfo

  • Audit Manager with dxaudit

  • Power Management with dxpower

  • DHCP Configuration with dhcpconf

  • Display Window with dxdw

• Monitoring and Tuning Applications

  While a system is running, you can use these applications to monitor and tune its resources:

  • Kernel Tuner with dxkerneltuner

  • Process Tuner with dxproctuner

• Storage Management Applications

  While a system is running, you can use these applications to configure its file systems:

  • Bootable Tape with btcreate

  • Prestoserve with dxpresto

  • Logical Storage Manager with dxlsm

• Tools

  Use these applications to check the status of the system:

  • Network Statistics with netstat

  • Virtual Memory Statistics with vmstat

  • I/O Statistics with iostat

  • Who? with who

For more information on the System Management Graphical Interface Tools, please click on the Welcome to SysMan icon in the System_Admin folder.

Text-Based Interfaces

Text-based interfaces are provided for those users who prefer to use a non-graphical interface or cannot display a graphical interface because they do not have the necessary hardware.

For instance, a set of text-based, menu-driven interfaces can be accessed through the setup utility:

# /usr/sbin/setup
Use this menu to set up your system and network. When you
select an item, you will be asked a series of questions.
For more information about the items on the menu and the
questions you must answer, see the System Administration
and Network Administration guides.
1) Network Configuration Application
2) BIND Configuration Application
3) NIS - Network Information Service
4) NFS Configuration Application
5) License Manager
6) Mail Configuration Application
7) LAT - Local Area Transport
8) UUCP - UNIX-to-UNIX Copy System
9) NTP - Network Time Protocol
10) Printer Configuration Application
11) Security (BSD/C2)
12) Security Auditing
13) Prestoserve I/O Acceleration
14) Update Administration Utility
15) Graphical UI Selection Facility
16) Exit
Enter the menu item number that you want:

# netconfig -ui menu
Main Menu
1 Network Interfaces
2 Daemons
3 Configuration Files
4 Static Routes
5 IP Router
0 Exit
Enter the number of your choice:

The text-based command line interfaces for each command can be accessed by invoking the necessary application from the command line with a -ui cli switch. The ns in the following example would be numbers indicating the hosts' IP addresses:

# netconfig -ui cli -host list
host1:
name localhost
address nnn.n.n.n
host2:
name elmo
address nn.nnn.nn.nnn
host3:
alias presto
comment Bind Nameserver
name presto.federation.com
address nn.nnn.nnn.n
host4:
alias voyager
comment System name
name voyager.federation.com
address nn.nnn.nnn.nnn
#

More information about these interfaces can be found in the reference pages for each utility that supports them.