Go directly to SAM screen

[Jason Berendsen]

Is there a command line option in HP-UX 11.00 to go straight to a certain SAM screen, specifically the DNS screen? I am looking to bypass the hierarchy of the original SAM screen and networking screens.

[Martin Johnson · Accepted solution]

You could probably do it with restricted SAM, i.e. set up a user to do just network administration.

HTH
Marty

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Jason,

Not possible. You can setup Restricted SAM for the user. First disable all functions and then enable only DNS Administration for that user by running "sam -r".

This will not show all other screens to the user when he/she runs sam. However, still you will have to go through the "Networking and Communcation" Screen but it will be much easier.

-Sri

[Pete Randall]

By design, SAM is menu driven. Quote from man sam:

DESCRIPTION
The sam command starts a menu-driven System Administration Manager
program (SAM) for performing system administration tasks


There are no additional options to allow pre-selection of a particular area.


Pete

[Jason Berendsen]

Martin,

Restricted SAM was one option I had thought of, but was wondering if there were any others.

Thanks for the help.

[Martin Johnson]

Jason,

SAM is menu driven, but unlike AIX's smit, there are no short cuts to submenus.

Marty