System Administration Manager (SAM)

The System Administration Manager (SAM) is an HP-UX System Administration tool that provides an easy-to-use user interface (UI) for performing various system administration tasks.

Summary of Change

The new HP-UX Kernel Configuration tool (kcweb) is used to configure kernel tunables and modules. For more information regarding kcweb, refer to “HP-UX Kernel Configuration” in this chapter.
In the Peripheral Devices functional area, the Cards and Device List subareas have been replaced by the new Web-based HP-UX Peripheral Devices tool (pdweb), and can be launched from SAM or by using the new pdweb command. All the existing functionality in the peripheral devices functional area remain. Using pdweb, some PCI cards can be added or replaced online. For more information, refer to the pdweb manpage, pdweb(1), and see “HP-UX Peripheral Devices (pdweb)”.
SAM is available as PA-RISC binaries on HP-UX 11i v2, and requires the Aries translator to run on HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium systems. For more information about Aries, see “Aries Binary Translator”.

Impact

There are no impacts.

Compatibility

There are no compatibility issues.

Performance

Since SAM is available as PA-RISC binaries, performance is impacted: actions performed by a user (such as selecting a particular functional area) in the SAM GUI will be slow.

Documentation

The SAM manpage, sam(1M), and SAM online help have been updated appropriately.

Obsolescence

The SAM functional areas Kernel Configuration, Distributed Print Services (DPS), Peripheral Devices, and Dump Devices are now obsolete.