Multiple SAM session

[mvr]

Could SAM be setup so it could be opened more than one session at the time ???

Miro

[Marco Santerre · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure what you are referring to, but I can run multiple SAM sessions. The only thing is I get a warning when I open up a second SAM session telling me that I may have "undesired results" because another session is also running. That doesn't mean you can't do anything, just that if someone is using SAM to do something similar to you, one of you two may not see their changes or may reboot the machine while you're in the middle of your change.

[melvyn burnard]

You can run more than one SAM session at a time, but I would do so VERY Carefully!!!
As it warns you, you could end up wiht unpredictable results.
I advise against it.

[Pete Randall]

Miro,

I would be cautious about having multiple simultaneous SAM sessions. The warning is there for a good reason. If you really need this functionality, look into restricted SAM (sam -r) to see if you can set it up to eliminate potential conflicts. You don't want two people playing with kernel parameters at the same time.

Pete

[eran maor]

Hi

you can open few session of SAM ( not from the same terminal ) but it is not recommend .

most of the time you are trying to change config with the SAM and if someone will do a change it can not update correctry if you are doing it both .

i have a hp-ux 11.00 and i run 2 SAM .
when i run the second SAM session i got a message that is warning me on this issue

[Alex Glennie]

Running more than one SAM session from the same terminal port is not
allowed. SAM was unable to obtain a lock on the SAM session lock file
for this terminal port, "/var/sam/lock/lock_7", probably because
another SAM session has already been launched from this terminal port
and it owns the lock on the file.


the above error only occurs when the sam command is run in the same terminal !

[mvr]

Thank you all. The conclusion is not to run more than one SAM session at the time....

Miro