WHAT COMMANDS CAN DSMIT RUN?

ITEM: RTA000042246

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What kind of commands are you able to run via DSMIT?  I am trying               
to do a trial with HP-UX clients and an AIX server?  I have read                
the DSMIT user guide, but it doesn't give too much detail on                    
what you can do with the tool.  Could you list 5 or 6 commands                  
that DSMIT can run (the first DSMIT screen would be helpful too)                
                                                                                
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A: For AIX clients, DSMIT can do everything that SMIT can do.  For other        
   clients, like the HP-UX clients, DSMIT will try to emulate SMIT              
   functionality as best as possible across the platforms.  Since other         
   UNIX platforms do not have any equivalent commands for some of AIX's         
   commands (such as most LVM commands, for example), there will be no          
   menus for these on the other clients.                                        
                                                                               
   The first menu that DSMIT brings up gives you a choice of "System            
   Management" and "Domain Management".  The "System Management" choice         
   will bring you into the SMIT-like screens where you can perform              
   administrative tasks, as in SMIT.  The "Domain Management" choice            
   will allow you to configure DSMIT.  Options available below this             
   menu include "Add machines with DSMIT installed", and "Define Working        
   Collective". The first menu within "System Management" for HP clients        
   includes all menus available in normal SMIT, except for "Problem             
   Determination", and any third-party SMIT additions (like Sysback).           
                                                                                
   For HP clients, sample commands that can be executed include "update",       
   "updist", and "rmfn" for software installation/maintenance; "dump" for       
   backing up filesystems; and "lifls" for listing contents of a disk.          
                                                                                
   There are also some commands that other clients do not have a direct        
   equivalent of, but code is added to emulate AIX functionality of these       
   commands, such as "mkuser" and "rmuser".                                     
                                                                                
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This item was created from library item Q658996      CRJZS                      
                                                                                
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COMMANDS CRJZS DSMIT EXECUTE IX MAY94 OP OZNEW RISCOSO RISCSYSTEM               
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