HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes
General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)(updated for June 2001)
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Documentation Change
• The sam (1M) manpage and online help have been updated.
Possible Future Changes
Performance improvements are planned for Card OLAR code in the
Peripherals Devices area.
In the future, SAM is planning on obsoleting the following:
• Instruments section under the Peripheral Devices area. (HP-IB
instruments are no longer supported.)
• Run SAM on Remote Systems area. (The ServiceControl Manager
product will be handling multi-system management.)
• Process Control section under Process Management area.
• The Routine Tasks area.
• Backup and Recover. The fbackup and frecover commands will
still be available from the command line.
• Distributed Print Service.
• Kernel Configuration. This will be replaced with a new tool.
• In the Performance Monitors area, the following areas will be
removed as SAM provides no added value above the existing
commands (listed in parenthesis).
— Disk and Terminal Activity (iostat)
— Inter-Process Communication Facility Status (ipcs)
— Process with the Highest CPU Usage (top)
— System Activity (sar)
— Virtual Memory Activity (vmstat)
Additional SAM Changes
The Guardian Service Processor was introduced for the N4000 mid-range
servers with the May 1999 Extension Pack and subsequently on all new
servers. (See “Guardian Service Processor (GSP)” on page 55 in Chapter
3 for more information.) The new card has a port for the system console,
as well as optional ports that can be used to connect terminals, modems
and Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS). SAM has been modified to
aid in the configuration of these optional ports.