HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

General System Administration
System Administration Manager (SAM)
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System Administration Manager (SAM)
The System Administration Manager (SAM) is an HP-UX System Administration tool
that provides an easy-to-use user interface (UI) for performing various system
administration tasks.
Summary of Change
• The new HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool (kcweb) is used to configure kernel
tunables and modules. For more information regarding kcweb, refer to “HP-UX
Kernel Configuration” on page 83 in this chapter.
• In the Peripheral Devices functional area, the Cards and Device List subareas have
been replaced by the new Web-based HP-UX Peripheral Devices tool (pdweb), and
can be launched from SAM or by using the new pdweb command. All the existing
functionality in the peripheral devices functional area remain. Using pdweb, some
PCI cards can be added or replaced online. For more information, refer to the pdweb
manpage, pdweb (1), and see “HP-UX Peripheral Devices (pdweb)” on page 85.
• SAM is available as PA-RISC binaries on HP-UX 11i v2, and requires the Aries
translator to run on HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium systems. For more information about
Aries, see “Aries Binary Translator” on page 206.
Impact
There are no impacts.
Compatibility
There are no compatibility issues.
Performance
Since SAM is available as PA-RISC binaries, performance is impacted: actions
performed by a user (such as selecting a particular functional area) in the SAM GUI will
be slow.
Documentation
The SAM manpage, sam (1M), and SAM online help have been updated appropriately.
Obsolescence
The SAM functional areas Kernel Configuration, Distributed Print Services (DPS),
Peripheral Devices, and Dump Devices are now obsolete.