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Appendix F Additional SSM Information
528 September 2002 HPSS Installation Guide
Release 4.5, Revision 2
The About Sammi menu option opens a window which displays information about Sammi and
about Kinesix, the Sammi developer. Among other items, it shows the current version of the Sammi
runtime, the host operating system and operating system version, and the hostname where Sammi
is running. Again, this information can sometimes be useful in diagnosing problems.
The SSM Consoles menu option, under the Monitor heading on the SSM main menu, opens the
SSM Console Information window. A “console” refers to one Sammi session which has connected
to SSM. When first opened, the window shows information on the local (i.e., your) console. If other
consoles are connected to the same SSM Data Server, you can use the “<<“ and “>>” buttons to
view information on other consoles.
Once a console has connected to an SSM Data Server, the Data Server continues to maintain
information on that console in its internal console list, even after its SSM session has completely
shut itself down. Seeing an inactive console in the list which is marked “Down” and “Logged
Off” is perfectly normal. Console information is re-initialized only when the Data Server is shut
down and restarted.
The window shows information such asconsole ID, connectionstate (Up orDown), last uptimeand
downtime, logon state, last logged-on user, and so forth (see the window help file for details).
Sometimes, a Sammi session will crash, which can generate a lot of SSM error messages and cause
problems for the remaining consoles. In such a situation, this window can be useful in tracking
down which console may be causing the problem. Many times such console problems can be
cleared up by restarting the crashed SSM session.
F.4 Customizing SSM and Sammi
This section lists a mixed bag of activities which can be performed to provide some site
customization of SSM and Sammi. Some of these activities may be of interest to individual users;
others only to the HPSS administrator.
• The file <Sammi installation directory>/data/timzones.dat defines time zones and the
start/end dates for daylight savings time in a particular year. It should be edited by the
HPSS administrator at the beginning of each calendar year. It should also be edited
immediately after HPSS is installed, to make sure that the installed file is up to date, and
that it specifies the correct local time zone. The format of the file is explained by comments
within the file.
• The Print SSM Window menu option, under the Session heading on the SSM main menu,
allows you to print a hard copy of an SSM window on a PostScript printer. Sammi uses the
environment variable SAM2_SPOOL as the command which sends the hard copy to the
printer. The /opt/hpss/bin/start_ssm_session script defines SAM2_SPOOL as “lpr”.
With the “lpr” command, output will ordinarily go to the default printer on the host where
Sammi is executing. Users can direct output to a different printer by defining the PRINTER
environment variable before running start_ssm_session.
The HPSS administrator may want to edit start_ssm_session to change the print command
defined by SAM2_SPOOL, or to add options to the “lpr” command.
• The file /opt/hpss/sammi/hpss_ssm/hpss.def contains Sammi “defaults” settings for
SSM. Sammi automatically loads <Sammi installation directory>/data/s2_defaults.def