System Administration GUIs and Shells |
Like all modern Unix systems, Digital Unix provides both command line and GUI interfaces to perform system administration tasks. While it is often faster to modify configuration files with "vi" or to use command line interfaces, GUI system administration tools are useful when manipulating unfamiliar areas of the system or when modifying some of the uglier and more complex areas of the system.
When using the CDE Desktop interface, these GUIs are accessible via the
Applications control panel icon, and then under the Systems Administration
icon below that.
If you want to run the commands from outside the CDE environment, say from a PC running X-Windows software, you run the individual applications that control specific aspects of the system configuration. (as opposed to running a single overall application such as "smit" in AIX)
| Systems Admin Programs | ||
|---|---|---|
| Command | Purpose | Interfaces
|
| bindconfig | Controls DNS / Bind client and server configuration | cli, gui, menu |
| diskconfig | Configures disk partitions and file systems | gui |
| dxaccounts | Add, delete, and manage users and groups. | gui |
| dxadvfs | Configure AdvFS file systems | gui |
| dxarchiver | GUI interface to compress, tar, pax, and cpio | gui |
| dxdw | Runs and repeats command line commands | gui |
| dxfileshare | Controls mounting and exporting of NFS file systems | gui |
| dxhosts | Launch pad for starting programs on other hosts | gui |
| dxkerneltuner | Manages the attributes of loadable kernel subsystems. | gui |
| dxlicenses | Manages licenses for software products.
|
gui |
| dxlsm | Manages the Logical Storage Manager. (LSM) | gui |
| dxpower | Manages the power management subsystem for Energy star compliant systems. This is for power saving features, not a UPS / battery backup system interface. | gui |
| dxpresto | Displays statistics and information for Prestoserve NFS accelerator cards. | gui |
| dxproctuner | GUI equivalent to "ps". Can also be used to change process priorities, and send signals to processes. | gui |
| dxshutdown | GUI equivalent to "shutdown". Adds the ability to run additional scripts prior to shutdown. Adds extra logging and ease of use. | gui |
| dxsysinfo | Monitors performance of CPU, memory and file systems. | gui |
| mailconfig | Configures sendmail | gui, cli |
| netconfig | Configure network subsystems including interfaces, routing, gateways, hosts files, hosts.equiv, etc. | gui, cli, menu |
| nfsconfig | Configures NFS client and servers | gui, cli, menu |
| printconfig | Adds, deletes, and modifies printer configurations. | gui, menu |