Air Cleaner User Manual

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SMIT Help Screens
You can obtain help information from any point within SMIT. If a menu selection
is currently displayed, highlight a function and press F1 for information regarding
the use of that function. For any dialog selection, F1 provides information on the
use of that selection, the options available, and how they affect the function being
performed.
SMIT Fastpaths
From any SMIT menu or dialog screen (where you type or change options), press
F8 to display the SMIT fastpath for quickly reaching that selection from the
command line. Later, to skip directly to the desired selection, you can type smit
fastpath at the command line, where fastpath is the fastpath for the desired
selection.
Obtaining Command Line Options from SMIT
You can execute any SMIT command outside of SMIT by placing the command in
a shell script. You can place multiple commands in shell scripts to be executed in
sequence, enabling a sequence of multiple commands to be performed without
user interaction. You can also place the shell scripts in cron, an AIX job scheduling
facility.
To obtain the command line options for a SMIT command, use the following steps:
1. Select the SMIT option to perform and any additional selections required for
this function.
2. Fill out any fields or change the field values in the dialog screen as you would
when executing the command from SMIT.
3. Before pressing Enter to execute the command from SMIT, press F6 to show the
command on the screen.
The following is an example of the SMIT output when you press F6:
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