NAME

smsd − The SysMan Station daemon

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/smsd

OPTIONS

−dRuns smsd as a daemon. This creates a separate process and redirects output to the smsd log files. 

DESCRIPTION

The SysMan Station is a client-server application consisting of a daemon (smsd) and the SysMan Station graphical user interface (sysman_station(8)).  The SysMan Station provides the ability to monitor and manage a single system or a TruCluster system.  The smsd server is responsible for gathering system management data from the host and presenting that information to the SysMan Station client. SysMan Station management data is collected from the following sources:

       •Desktop Management (DMI) - software related management data

       •Common Hardware - hardware related management data

       •Event Management (EVM) - event data

       •SMS data files - SMS configuration data

RESTRICTIONS

You must have root privileges to run this command. 

EXAMPLES

     1.The following example shows how to run the System Management Station daemon:

/sbin/init.d/smsd start

     2.The following explains how to terminate and restart the daemon:

A System Management Station daemon should not be terminated when active client connections exist. To test for active connections to a daemon, use the following command:

netstat -a | grep 596

If there are no active clients, the resulting output looks like the following:

tcp00∗.596∗.∗LISTEN

The output should have no more than a single line with ∗.596 in the fourth column, which indicates the listening port for the daemon. 

If there are active clients, the resulting output looks like the following:

tcp00system1.domain.com.596
system2.domain.com.2592ESTABLISHED
tcp00system2.domain.com.2592
system1.domain.com.596ESTABLISHED
tcp00∗.596∗.∗
LISTEN

In the latter example, an active client connection is indicated in the first line of output by its address, system1.domain.com, which is appended with the listening port of the daemon, 596. The system2.domain.com does not have an address indicating a port of 596, and is not relevant here. The clients should be terminated prior to termination of the daemon. An attempt to restart the daemon fails if such a connection is active. To terminate the daemon on a system (or cluster member), execute:

/sbin/init.d/smsd stop

In a cluster environment, there may be an occasion to restart the daemons.  In such a case, the daemon on each node of the cluster must be terminated.  After termination of all System Management Station daemons, internal data files should be cleared by executing the following command in superuser mode (this need be done only once, from any cluster member):

rm -rf /var/cluster/sms/∗/∗

After the data files have been removed, the System Management Station daemon for each cluster member may be started (previously described). 

FILES

/usr/sbin/smsd
The SysMan Station daemon

/usr/share/sysman/sms
The directory containing SysMan Station data files

/var/adm/sysman/sysman_station/logs/smsd_<date>.log
SysMan Station log files

SEE ALSO

Commands: netstat(1), sysman_station(8)

System Administration