Additional Tips

Global Character (Wildcard) Support

You can use the global asterisk character (*) to facilitate broadcasting commands to all servers. For example, STU*: sends the command to all servers whose names begin with the letters STU.

Follow the shell-specific rules pertaining to the shell you are using. Some shells may intercept and interpret the asterisk before HPDPS has a chance to operate on it. In these cases, you can surround the asterisk by control characters, typically some form of quotes supported by the shell, to prevent premature interpretations.

Abbreviations for Attributes and Values

Attributes and values can often be abbreviated by using the first letter of each word. Thus, the media-used attribute can be abbreviated to m-u. However, in instances where abbreviations are not unique, you will need to use more letters. For example, you cannot use j-o because of the overlap for job-owner and job-originator. Instead, use j-ow for job-owner or j-or for job-originator.

Redirecting Data

You can use the pdls command to create a file that contains the data you would normally see on the display screen. You might want to do this to create a new attributes file or to archive the present data so you can recover it later on. For example, to create a file SPOOL1.archive that contains specifiable and settable attributes and their values for server SPOOL1, sending it to the specified directory, enter:

pdls -c server -r archive -g SPOOL1 > /attr/SPOOL1.archive