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Data Center Management

TERMDSM: User Interface Change under System Diagnostics

TERMDSM: User Interface Change under System

Diagnostics

by Umakanth Rajasekhar

Commercial Systems Division

The underlying Diagnostics Interface has changed. This article gives information on what

the user will see and what it means to invoke TERMDSM to diagnose the DTCs and its

connected ports.

Starting with MPE/iX Release 6.5, a new diagnostic interface named ‘Support Tools

Manager’ (STM) replaces SYSDIAG (which runs on SHERLOCK Diagnostics.) on HP 3000s.

Most of the tools supported previously under SYSDIAG are still supported but they all now

run under the MESA Diagnostic platform instead. Some SHERLOCK diagnostics have

been replaced with native MESA tools. This article discusses the TERMDSM, the tool that

diagnoses DTCs and its connected ports including X.25 connections.

What It Means to the User

Under MESA, Sherlock tools were migrated to MESA as expert tools and utilities. Only

Expert tools requires a licence to run under MESA.

All the Diagnostic programs under SYSDIAG are now expert tools in MESA and utilities

that run under SYSDIAG are still utilities. They do not require a license to run as before.

TERMDSM still runs as a utility under MESA.

The functionality of TERMDSM in diagnosing DTCs and related ports is not changed; only

the interface is changed.

What the User Will See

To invoke the utility, TERMDSM, the user has to run ‘cstm’ at the CI prompt. The user has to

make sure that the ‘diagmond’ process is running in the system. The user will see a prompt

from the interface (just like DUI in case of SYSDIAG). At that prompt the user must enter

ru termdsm

ru stands for Run Utility. Adequate help is provided with the interface and accelerator

keys are also provided to lower the burden on the user to type in long commands.

A sample output from invoking TERMDSM is shown below:

MPE/iX: cstm

:cstm

Running Command File (/usr/sbin/stm/ui/config/.stmrc).

-- Information --

Support Tools Manager

Version A.11.00

Product Number B4708AA