topic Re: Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box? in Operating System - HP-UX

Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box?

in_kunal — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:23:55 GMT

Hi all,

Can we know if a monitor is connected to HP-UX box using command line and fetch some information for it like resolution, model, manufacturer etc.

Thanks and regards.

Re: Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box?

Ganesan R — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:24:58 GMT

Hi,

Normally monitors will be only connected to workstations not servers. Terminals can be connected to servers. And there is no command available to check as for as I know.

Re: Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box?

VK2COT — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:42:28 GMT

Hello,

In fact, there is a command to help :)

One of them is:

/opt/graphics/common/bin/setmon

Check on-line manual for
options like "-p" or "-r"...

The other one is graphinfo (if it exists
on your server).

Cheers,

VK2COT

Re: Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box?

Duncan Edmonstone — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:45:35 GMT

I think you're going to struggle... this isn't a desktop OS where such things are of a concern.

for a lot of HP-UX systems, if they have a graphics capability of any kind, they will probably have a card with a gvid driver associated with it... so:

ioscan -d gvid

might show you those that are capable of having a monitor attached to them, but whether there is actually anything attached... I don't think there's any way to tell. I'm also not sure whether that ioscan command would capture all the cases... probably not.

As already stated, it's generally an exception for a HP-UX server to have a monitor attached.

Probably the safest bet is a physical inspection (although I presume the reason for your question is that this isn't possible)

Why do you care anyway? Let me guess.. you've been asked to provide an inventory by a manager, and given a template of information required. Whoever created the template added columns for what you described above?

HTH

Duncan

Re: Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box?

Duncan Edmonstone — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:50:50 GMT

well Dusan I stand corrected... never knew about this command (but then I never did much with workstations) I suspect however that every box he runs:

setmon -r /dev/crt

will return zip...

HTH

Duncan

Re: Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box?

in_kunal — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:00:14 GMT

yes Duncan what you say in correct, "I have been asked to provide an inventory , and given a template of information required. Whoever created the template added columns for what i described above".

And the inventory contains lot of parameters and that to with a requirement that i do not use any tools like stm cstm sam and even print_manifest.

Re: Monitor is connected or not to HP UX box?

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:59:35 GMT

>>...with a requirement that i do not use any
>>tools like stm cstm sam and even
>>print_manifest.

Well, if they are so smart as to tell you what NOT to use, then go back and ask them what you SHOULD use.