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Operating Systems AIX concerning X server Post 302144839 by bakunin on Saturday 10th of November 2007 03:08:05 PM
Old 11-10-2007
Maybe I am mistaken, but i think the main problem is your (missing) understandig of what an X-server does: think of an X-server as a sort-of driver of your graphic card. That means the X-server is never running on the "server", but on your client! You probably have a setup similar to this: an AIX server on a network and some client machines from which you want to connect to the server. You have to run the X-server on these clients, either a native X-server if the client runs some Unix or Linux or an X-server emulation like Hummingbird Exceed or something such.

This X-server only makes the services your graphics hardware offers available - available to clients (X-clients, application programs using the X-protocol), which run usually on the server!

When you start an xterm, xclock, etc., on the server it will discover where your DISPLAY-variable points to. It then will try to connect to the machine mentioned in this variable and establish an X-connection with the X-server running there. If this is successful it will tell the X-server what to do - draw a line, draw a rectangle, write text in a specific font, etc. The X-server is supposed to understand these requests (which are standardized) and translate them into commands the graphic hardware can understand.

The first thing you usually start (and an X-application in its own right) is a so-called "window-manager". mwm, fvwm, but also CDE, Enlightenment or even Gnome and KDE are such window managers (Gnome and KDE are more than that, but that only as an aside). A window manager does things like decorating the workspace of an X-application (the "window") with all sorts of controls - a border to move and resize it, minimize-, maximize- and close-buttons, etc.. Some window managers can provide multiple virtual desktops and many other things, the list of features is endless.

To answer your question directly: the HMC, as it comes preconfigured from IBM, has already a window manager running on top of an X-server (its basically a tailormade Linux system) which manages the local display. You can't even change that as IBM sees the HMC as an "appliance", not a computer. You won't even get a root or root-equivalent account, only the "hmcroot", which is a simple user with some few extra rights.

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smcwebserver(1M)                                          System Administration Commands                                          smcwebserver(1M)

NAME
smcwebserver - manage the server for the Sun Web Console SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/smcwebserver subcommand options DESCRIPTION
The smcwebserver utility manages the Sun Web Console server. Sun Web Console is a browser-based interface that performs systems management. System administrators can manage systems, devices and services from the console. When the console webserver is running, you can view the console by opening a browser and pointing to: https://host:6789 host is the machine where the console has been installed and the console server is running. SUBCOMMANDS
The following subcommands are supported: disable Disable automatic start or stop during system boot or shutdown. Until the administrator reruns the script with the smcweb- server enable subcommand the webserver can be started/stopped only when the administrator executes the script manually using the following command: # /usr/sbin/smcwebserver [start | stop] enable Enable the webserver to startup automatically during subsequent system boot and gracefully stop during system shutdown. restart Stop and subsequently start the console webserver. The format of the restart subcommand is: restart [-U username] start Start the console webserver. The format of the start subcommand is: start [-U username] stop Stop the console webserver. status Display status of the console webserver. The format of the status subcommand is: status [-p] OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -U username | --username usernamThe user identity to run the server as. Once the server has successfuly started under the specified iden- tity, all subsequent starts will automatically be done under that identity until you change it via this option, or by changing the com.sun.web.console.user configuration property via the smreg(1M) command. The default is to run the server under the "noaccess" identity. -p | --parseable Display non-localized output suitable for programmatic parsing. If the server is running, the output will be: running=yes If the server is not running, the output will be: running=no -h | --help | -? Display the usage statement. -V | --version Display console version information. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Displaying the Usage Statement The following command displays the smcwebserver usage statement: % smcwebserver --help Example 2: Determining if the Server is Running The following shell command will start the server if it is not already running. ans=`smcwebserver -p | grep running | cut -d"=" -f2` if [ "$ans" = "no" ]; then smcwebserver start fi ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of smcwebserver: JAVA_HOME If you do not specify this environment variable, your PATH is searched for a suitable java. Otherwise, depending on the OS, the follow- ing default locations are used: Solaris: /usr/j2se Linux: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4* EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. 1 An error occurred. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWmcon | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
smreg(1M), attributes(5), environ(5) SunOS 5.10 27 May 2004 smcwebserver(1M)
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