HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)
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Peripheral Devices Management
You can configure cards and devices from the Web-based HP-UX Peripheral Device tool (
pdweb) or from
the HP-UX Peripheral Device tool in Terminal User Interface (TUI) mode. The following activities can be
performed from this functional area:
• Administer the LP spooler, associated printers, and plotters (see "Printer and Plotter Manage-
ment" below).
• Add, modify, or remove the configuration of disk devices.
• 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.
• View disk space information.
• Add or replace some PCI cards online.
Printer and Plotter Management
• LP Spooler - Manage local, remote, and networked printers and plotters.
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. SAM supports shadow mode only for password
aging. A standard HP-UX system is converted to a shadow mode system by running the
pwconv(1M) command. Refer to the pwconv(1M) man page and SAM’s "Users and Groups"
subarea online help for more information.
Note: SAM does not support shadow mode on an NIS or NIS+ configuration.
• Modify a user account’s group membership.
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