SAM Information

[Bruce Baillie]

Go to SAM, Disks and File Systems, Disk Devices.
Where does SAM get the information to fill in the 2 fields, "Use" and "Volume Group"?

[Torsten.]

SAM is clever and uses its own scripts to extract the data from several commands, like
ioscan, vgdisplay and so on.

[Mridul Shrivastava]

The sam command starts a menu-driven System Administration Manager
program (SAM) for performing system administration tasks with only
limited, specialized knowledge of the HP-UX operating system. SAM
discovers most aspects of a system's configuration through automated
inquiries and tests. Help menus describe how to use SAM and perform
the various management tasks. Press the F1 function key for help on a
currently highlighted field and for more information not covered in
this manpage. Status messages and a log file monitor keep the user
informed of what SAM is doing.

For more information refer man pages of SAM.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Bruce:

In fact, to add to Torsten's comments, you can see what scripts SAM uses to perform various tasks by toggling:

Options -> View SAM Log

The script(s) used to perform your request will be listed. They are, as noted, special scripts and executables provided for SAM's internal use. Have a look at your log and '/usr/sam'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Enrico P.]

Hi,
you can see the sam log operation with the command /usr/sam/bin/samlog_viewer (see the man samlog_viewer for the option) also.

Enrico

[Bruce Baillie]

That helped, thanks.....