02-19-2002
System cutover - name resolution
Here's the story. We are in the process of migrating from a Sequent unix machine running Dynix/ptx 4.4.8 to an IBM P660 machine running AIX 5.1.
An issue came up pertaining to different applications that have been hard-coded to resolve to the Sequent machine (seq2). When the cutover occurs, the applications will need to be pointed at the IBM machine (palprod).
Will adding the old hostname to the host files (entry for new machine would also contain old machine name) that reside on the application's machine do the trick as long as we shut down the old machine at the cutover time? Are there any gotchas out there that pertain to this type of solution?
The apps are written in Cobol, Progress, C, and VB.
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platform
platform(n) Tcl Bundled Packages platform(n)
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NAME
platform - System identification support code and utilities
SYNOPSIS
package require platform ?1.0.4?
platform::generic
platform::identify
platform::patterns identifier
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DESCRIPTION
The platform package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a machine running Tcl.
Whilst Tcl provides the tcl_platform array for identifying the current architecture (in particular, the platform and machine elements) this
is not always sufficient. This is because (on Unix machines) tcl_platform reflects the values returned by the uname command and these are
not standardized across platforms and architectures. In addition, on at least one platform (AIX) the tcl_platform(machine) contains the CPU
serial number.
Consequently, individual applications need to manipulate the values in tcl_platform (along with the output of system specific utilities) -
which is both inconvenient for developers, and introduces the potential for inconsistencies in identifying architectures and in naming con-
ventions.
The platform package prevents such fragmentation - i.e., it establishes a standard naming convention for architectures running Tcl and
makes it more convenient for developers to identify the current architecture a Tcl program is running on.
COMMANDS
platform::identify
This command returns an identifier describing the platform the Tcl core is running on. The returned identifier has the general for-
mat OS-CPU. The OS part of the identifier may contain details like kernel version, libc version, etc., and this information may con-
tain dashes as well. The CPU part will not contain dashes, making the preceding dash the last dash in the result.
platform::generic
This command returns a simplified identifier describing the platform the Tcl core is running on. In contrast to platform::identify
it leaves out details like kernel version, libc version, etc. The returned identifier has the general format OS-CPU.
platform::patterns identifier
This command takes an identifier as returned by platform::identify and returns a list of identifiers describing compatible architec-
tures.
KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture
platform 1.0.4 platform(n)