HP-UX Reference (11i v1 00/12) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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Add or remove terminals and modems.
Configure terminal security policies (Trusted Systems only).
Lock and unlock terminals (Trusted Systems only).
Add or remove tape drives.
Add or remove hardware interface cards.
View current configuration of peripherals and disk space information.
Printer and Plotter Management
SAM supports two methods for managing printers and plotters:
LP Spooler - Manage local, remote, and networked printers and plotters.
HP Distributed Print Service (HPDPS) - Manage physical printers (parallel, serial, or network
interface and remote printers), logical printers, print queues, spoolers, and supervisors.
Process Management
Kill, stop or continue processes.
Change the nice priority of processes.
View the current status of processes.
Schedule periodic tasks via cron.
View current periodic (cron) tasks.
Run performance monitors.
Display system properties such as: machine model and ID; number of installed processors, their
version and speed; operating-system release version; swap statistics, real, physical, and virtual
memory statistics; network connection information.
Remote Administration
Configure remote systems for remote administration.
Execute SAM on systems configured for remote administration.
Routine Tasks
Shut down the system.
View and remove large files. Specify size and time-since-accessed of large files to display or
remove.
View and remove unowned files. Specify size and time-since-accessed of unowned files to display or
remove.
View and remove core files.
View and trim ASCII or non-ASCII log files. Add or remove files from the list of files to monitor.
Set recommended size for trimming.
User and Group Account Management
Add, remove, view, and modify user accounts.
Modify a user account’s group membership.
Set up password aging for a user account.
Add, remove, view, and modify groups.
Deactivate and reactivate user accounts.
Manage trusted system security policies on a per-user basis.
Adding New Functionality to SAM
You can easily add stand-alone commands, programs, and scripts to SAM. SAM is suspended while the exe-
cutable program is running. When it finishes, the SAM interface is restored. You can also write your own
help screen for each menu item you create. To add functionality to SAM, select the "Add Custom Menu
Item" or "Add Custom Menu Group" action items from the SAM Areas menu. (Note that the new item is
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