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pdweb(1M) pdweb(1M)

NAME

pdweb - start the HP-UX Peripheral Device tool, part of the System Management Homepage Web interface

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/pdweb -t

/usr/sbin/pdweb -F

DESCRIPTION

The HP-UX Peripheral Device tool (

pdweb) can be used to easily and quickly view I/O devices and OLRAD

cards. It helps manage hot pluggable PCI slots on systems that support adding and replacing cards without

rebooting. On all HP-UX systems,

pdweb will display the I/O devices and can be used to (re)create device

ﬁles for a selected device.

The pdweb command starts SMH and goes directly to the Peripheral Device page. Once started, the

online help facility of pdweb is available and can be used to learn more about

pdweb.

The HP-UX Peripheral Device tool user interface uses a Web browser. Executing the

pdweb

command

without any options performs the following tasks:

• Start the System Management Homepage Web server and,

• Start a Web client (browser).

An attempt will be made to connect to the browser speciﬁed with the

BROWSER environment variable, or

Mozilla, or Netscape. The Web browser will be displayed on the X server deﬁned by the

DISPLAY environ-

ment variable. If a running browser is found, it will be used, otherwise a new session will be initiated.

This will only happen if the browser process is running on the same system used to execute the

pdweb

command (deﬁned by the DISPLAY variable), unless the -F option is used.

Options

The pdweb recognizes the following options:

-t Opens the terminal interface for Cards and Devices regardless of the current setting of the

DISPLAY environment variable.

-F Forces a client browser to be used in less secure ways. Two security features are overridden

by the -F option.

The -F option forces the client browser to be used or started, even if the X-trafﬁc between the

X-server and the Mozilla browser is not secure.

When pdweb is invoked by SAM, the -F option is used.

Only a privileged user (root) can execute pdweb When used with the -F option, a temporary

face without having to provide login information again.

Only use this option if you are sure the network trafﬁc is secure between the host where

Mozilla is running, and the host in the DISPLAY variable.

The browser uses URL, https://hostname:2381/, and you may paste this into any

browser if a browser does open with the pdweb command.

Online Help

Once the HP-UX Peripheral Device tool is started, the online help provides details on how to use the tool.

RETURN VALUES

Upon completion, pdweb returns one of the following values:

0 Successful.

1 An error occurred.

AUTHORS

pdweb was developed by Hewlett-Packard