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Figure 17. Snapshot of System M o n i t o r
The hardware monitor consists of a daemon, named hardmon, and a set of client
commands. The hardmon daemon executes on the Control Workstation and,
using the RS-232 lines to each frame, polls the frames for the state of the
hardware within the frame. The daemon also sends hardware-level commands
to each frame to change the state of the hardware within the frame in some way.
The client commands spmon and hmmon interact with hardmon to obtain the current
or changing state of the hardware.
The client commands
spmon
and
hmcmds
also interact with hardmon to change the
state and control the hardware. The SP system monitor GUI issues the
spmon
command internally to control and monitor the hardware.
The splogd logging daemon is also a client of the hardware monitor for logging
purposes.
2.5.1 Problems with System Monitor Commands
When you try to run
spmon -g
on the Control Workstation and the system reports
that
spmon: not found.
, then verify installation, as follows:
•
Make sure that the ssp.basic option of the pssp installp image was installed.
The ssp.basic option provides the system monitoring function.
Run verification tests using
smit
or the command line to ensure installation
is complete. Use
smit
as follows:
# smit smoni_verify
or enter the following on the command line:
# /usr/lpp/ssp/bin/spmon_itest
sysmon_itest: Start sysmon installation verification test
sysmon_itest: Verification Succeeded
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