IBM HPSS Network Card User Manual


 
Changes since 5.1 Server GUI ADM
Options to the hpssgui and hpssadm startup scripts have changed
significantly. See the man pages for details. Following are some
highlights:
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The scripts are dependent upon an ssm configuration file
(ssm.conf), created by mkhpss, which contains some site-specific
configuration values. The SSM client script will attempt to read
the ssm configuration file in the current working directory unless
the pathname to this file is specified by the -m option.
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The SSM client scripts now use an internal polling mechanism for
getting window updates (as opposed to being notified of the update
by the server). This means that:
the SSM client application no longer requires a second
port for two-way communication,
using SSM across an ssh tunnel is simpler since you
now need to set up the tunnel only in one direction,
the rate of polling can be fine-tuned by the user (see the
-A, -G, -L -M, -W options).
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The scripts are dependent upon a login.conf file and, if using
Kerberos authentication, a krb5.conf file. The hpssuser program
creates both of these files. The scripts will look in the current
working directory for these files unless they are specified on the
command line (-C and -k options).
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It is no longer necessary to add a security provider entry to the java
system java.security file.
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The pathname to the java executable can be specified by using the
-j option. If this option isn't specified, then the script will use the
java executable in $JAVA_BIN if it is valid. If $JAVA_BIN/java
is not defined, then the script will use 'java' which will use the
client's $PATH.
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Effective with HPSS 5.1.1, the hpssgui script supports customizing
the user's background color or Look & Feel using the -b, -F and -T
options. Sites which did not apply the 5.1 patch would not have
had this functionality.
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The SSM user can specify the number of alarms to display on the
alarm list using the -N option.
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The SSM user can specify the pathname to the hpss.jar using the -
P option.
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The SSM user can specify the path to search for application
preferences using the -i option. This path is now local to the SSM
client machine; preferences are no longer stored on the SSM server
machine.
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Sites which are converting from a previous release of HPSS should be
certain to replace all their hpssgui and hpssadm startup scripts on all client
platforms with the new versions.
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