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Session Preferences
You can use this module to set a number of parameters which affect
what Enlighten does during your session.
Fields
The Session Preferences window contains the following fields:
Session preferences for user
This view-only field shows for which user these session preferences
are being defined.
Combine User Accounts
Normally, Enlighten combines accounts with identical parameters
across the current System Pool, and reports the account as a single
entry with an incident count. For example:
caesar (3) Encrypted 101 20 /home/caesar
means user caesar has accounts on three of the systems in the
current System Pool, all of which have the same Username, Userid,
primary Groupid, Login Shell, Home Directory, etc. For many
administration tasks, this form of reporting is easier to scan since
it eliminates redundant entries.
There may be cases where you need to see a more detailed report of
user configurations. You can change the results of Enlighten reports
by selecting all accounts be treated as separate entries or each
account uniqueness is determined by three parameters: Username,
Userid and primary Groupid.
Note: The latter form is somewhat dangerous; the reported accounts
may not actually be complete duplicates and making modifications to
the configuration might remove important differences.
Use this three-way toggle to decide how Enlighten reports account
configurations. Your options are:
+ Treat all accounts as unique (the default)
+ With identical UserID & GroupID
+ With all parameters identical (the first case shown above)
File list format
Use this toggle to determine how much information is shown when file
names are displayed in a report list box. The default way is to
simply display the absolute name of the file (Filenames only).
Choose the Long Listing format to display additional information,
such as the protection mode, file size, and date of last
modification.
Auto refresh options
In a multi-user/tasking system, things are always changing. Files
are created and deleted, print requests are made, and processes
start and terminate. Consequently any system information displayed
may no longer reflect the current state of the system after some
time. You can update any screen with current information by using
the Refresh button. Enlighten will also automatically refresh a
screen after any action is taken on a displayed item in that window.
Use this three-way toggle to choose which auto refresh option you
want to use during your session:
+ Turned off
+ For EMD data only
+ Turned on
Turned off
When this option is selected, the current screen will not be updated
after an action is taken on an item in a display list. Then you will
have to manually click on the Refresh button to update the current
list in any window.
For EMD data only
When this option is selected, Enlighten will only automatically
update screens where the data required to build the report is local
Enlighten data. This basically means all EMD data.
Turned on
When this option is selected, Enlighten will automatically
regenerate the current screen after an action has been taken on any
item in the display list. This does not actually take place until
all actions have been completed in that window. This option is
particularly useful when killing a process. Once Enlighten has sent
the desired signal to the process, the report is regenerated and you
can quickly determine if the process still exists.
Note: Some reports are generated based on the selections made from a
parent window. For example, a list of processes may have been
generated based on the selected users from the Process Summary
report. In such cases, the parent window is first regenerated and
the same items re-selected. The criteria for re-selection is solely
based on position. In other words, if the first and third entries
are selected in the original report, they will also be selected in
the newly generated report. Once the parent window has been
regenerated, then the current window can be regenerated.
Disk related windows do not have any refresh capabilities since they
are based on previously generated disk snapshots. Disk snapshots are
used since scanning disk partitions in real time would be extremely
intensive from a performance and resource perspective.
Default User Account Template
Use this field to set a User Account Template as your default user
template. You can click on the arrow button on the right to display
a list of the previously defined templates and select one.
Execute command for Print Icon
The top right of most list windows contains a set of buttons with
icons representing global actions. When you click on the Print icon,
the full list is piped to the command entered in this field.
The default is to email the report list to the user root. You may
use this field to create any executable UNIX command list here. For
example, to print to the printer text, you could specify the
following command:
lp -d text
You can use a maximum of 100 characters to specify your custom
printing command.
Broadcast Relay Hosts
You can use this field to specify any hosts which will be used as
broadcast relays for remote file distribution jobs. If you are using
multiple entries, leave a blank between each entry.
Include NFS in Partition Reports
Use this toggle to select whether Enlighten should include
NFS-mounted partitions when it displays a list of disk partitions
(you can use for further manipulation). The default is No.
Including these partitions gives you a more complete set of choices,
but the system information available for these partitions is not as
detailed as it is for local partitions and may not prove to be as
useful to you. Building and searching NFS partitions are also
relatively slow, and the overhead required may not be desirable.
Finally, within an Enlighten System Pool, the NFS partitions on
different systems may be redundant mounts of a system within the
Pool that already has the same partitions mounted locally. In this
case, the local daemon will operate more efficiently on that
partition.
Masked Passwords
Use this toggle to select whether Enlighten echoes asterisks in the
Password fields when you are assigning passwords. If you select Yes,
the password will be masked when you enter it. If you select No (the
default), the newly assigned password will be displayed as you enter
it.
Note: No confirmation is required when you assign a password. Be
careful when assigning masked passwords to ensure what you type will
match what the system will expect.
Maintain catalog of backed up files
Use this toggle to select whether Enlighten will keep a catalog of
all files it backs up. The default is No.
If you choose Yes as the option, Enlighten will create a catalog of
all files it has backed up every time a partition backup is made. It
stores the date and time the backup was made, the name of the file,
its size, its owners, and the date of last modification. The default
name of the catalog is NONAME, unless you select a different name.
Then you can use the Archive menu to search through the catalogs for
instances of backed up files and/or restore selected files.
Maintain window position and size
Enlighten windows will pop-up in a default location with a default
size. If you set this toggle to Yes, any changes to window size and
location will be "remembered" for the next time the window pop-ups.
Otherwise (No), the window will revert back to the default size and
location settings the next time you access it (the default case).
Buttons
The Session Preferences window contains the following buttons:
Apply
Click on this button to save the session preferences defined by the
rest of this window's fields.
Cancel
Click on this button to close the window without making any changes.