GUI SAM

[Bill Brutzman]

On our new Rx-2600 Itanium 2 with 11i v2, it would be nice to see SAM in gui mode.

How can this be accomplished?

[Rajeev Shukla · Accepted solution]

Run an Xterm emulation and connect to your server and then run SAM, it will then start in GUI mode.

Run X-emulation either using exceed or reflection-x

Cheers
Rajeev

[Bill Brutzman]

What is exceed? What is reflection-x?

How do I run these guys?

[Rajeev Shukla]

It is a X-emulation software you need to install on your PC and then connect to the rx-2600 server using this software, which will open the x window and you can then run GUI SAM.

Below are the links where you can get them

http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html
http://www.wrq.com/products/reflection/win/

[Bill Brutzman]

OK. I am familiar with WRQ and Hummingbird.
I will revisit these products.

What I was really asking... is there a way to do GUI on the console session of the RX-2600 itself?

Does it make sense to GUI on the server itself?

[Alex Glennie]

Bill : answer = no unless a graphics card and monitor can be attached : basically most hpux GUI's run under Xwindows and a window manager, these need a physical device aka graphics card to be displayed, a console just won't work.

most likely you'll see a cannot open display error, ReflectionsX and eXceed provide a remote Xserver 4u by means of the graphics card in the pc and their own s/w.

If you have a linux system you could simply remote login to the hpux system, export DISPLAY to the :0 and run SAM ... it would cost less ;-)

[Bill Brutzman]

There is a VGA port built in to the RX-2600.

This port appears to have respectable video capabilities.

I have a PC monitor connected to the RX-2600 together with an HP keyboard and mouse.

So, is it possible to get GUI SAM with this?

[Patrick Wallek]

It depends. Are you logged in via CDE or do you just have a command prompt?

If you are in CDE, then open a terminal window and at the # prompt, just type sam and see what happens. If it comes up in TUI mode, exit out, then 'export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0' and try sam again.

[Steven E. Protter]

With DISPLAY set xfs set to provide font service and x emulation software SAM will work GUI with any networked PC.

Graphics cards in servers are problematic and I never liked the idea, even after working with them.

Sam is a tool that can almost never be used. Few Sam functions can not be done on the command line.

For lvm work, the command line is more precise than Sam.

I recommend moving away from sam use for routine matters by systems administration. Reason: it doesn't work in single user or lvm mode boots.

I use sam as a learning tool. If I don't know how to do something (happens quite often!) I use sam to do it and look at the sam command logs. In there are the key commands needed to handle the task without sam.

I copy these logs into files and learn how sam did its magic.

SEP

[Alex Glennie]

I'm not in the office at present but http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-4238/5971-4238.pdf suggests to me yes providing a graphics card is available ...ioscan -fnC graph ?

[Alex Glennie]

thinking about this the graphics driver class name *may* have changed at 11.23 could be gvid, I'm 95 % confident answer is yes : just ensure a graphics card is claimed and that dtlogin is running at run level 3.

[Bill Brutzman]

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