HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

The kcpath command prints information about the location of the currently running
kernel. It is intended for use by scripts and applications that need this information. See
the kcpath(1M) manpage for details.
The kclog command searches the kernel configuration log file. For details, see “The
Kernel Configuration Log File” (page 195) or the kclog(1M) manpage.
Finally, users of the mk_kernel command, present in previous HP-UX releases, should
be aware that the command can still be used. It is included as a small shell script that
invokes the kconfig command. This older command is obsolescent and will be
removed in a future release. See mk_kernel(1M).
Overview of HP SMH for Kernel Configuration
You can configure and manage the kernel without remembering the syntax of the kernel
configuration commands or the exact names of modules and tunables by using HP
SMH, the web- and text-based HP-UX kernel configuration tool to configure and manage
the kernel of your system. HP SMH has the following features:
• Web-based and text-based interfaces.
• Kernel tunable management: monitor and modify.
• Alarm management: add, modify and remove.
• Kernel module state management: modify.
• Access to manpages for tunables.
• Command preview – When a tunable, module or alarm is modified, you can use
the command preview feature by choosing the Preview button. This will show
the kernel configuration command invocation that will perform the requested task.
You can access Kernel Configuration in any of the following ways:
• From the command line with the kcweb -t command.
• With a web browser through the Kernel Configuration area of HP-UX System
Management Homepage. See Figure 10-1 (page 156).
By default, the kcweb command invokes the Mozilla web browser. If you want to
invoke kcweb with any other browser, set the BROWSER environment variable to the
path name of the browser you wish to use. For more details, see the kcweb(1M) manpage.
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