SMIT Help Information

Note: The information contained in this article is structured as help information for the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and is not intended for general reading.


Show Storage Protection Keys

Displays the default, current, and next boot settings for storage protection keys.


View Storage Protection Keys Default Setting

Displays the default settings for storage protection key.


View Storage Protection Keys Current Settings

Displays the current boot setting for storage protection keys.


View storage potection keys settings in Next Boot Session

Displays the next boot setting for the storage protection keys.


Change Next Boot storage potection keys settings

Displays a menu to change the next boot settings for storage protection keys. The values in brackets [ ] are the default setting. The items marked with an asterisk (*) indicate that you can change the corresponding entry fields. If you run it without changing the settings, then the setting for storage keys are reset to the default settings.


Next boot Number of User Storage Protection Keys

Enter the number of user storage protection keys that will be enabled at next boot. The value can be set to "off" to disable the user-space storage keys, or set to a number from 2 to the maximum number of hardware storage keys available on this system. If there are no changes, then the value is set to the default value.

Before changes become fully active, you must run the /usr/sbin/bosboot command after changing the number of storage protection keys, and reboot AIX.


Setting this attribute to Yes indicates that the target mode function is enabled on the adapter. If you specify No, the target mode function of the adapter is disabled.


The minimum interval, in milliseconds (ms), that is allowed in an interval probe for global root user.


Specify the number of groups allowed for a given process on the system. The numeric value that you specify must be within a range of 128 to 2048. The default value is 128. Reboot the system for the change to take affect.


Specify an option for initiating a boot operation on the client. Select one of the following options:


Specify an option for opening a virtual console window to this client to allow client console interaction during the NIM operation. Select one of the following options:


Specify whether to perform checks between the client object default setting (for example, default_profile) and current NIM management object attributes. If for instance, the value in the default_profile is incorrect, the value is again adjusted to match the current NIM management object attributes.


When the Management Object Name field references a Hardware Control point of the type 'HMC', setting this option to Yes implies a definition of NIM CEC management objects, one for each CEC discovered on the HMC. All object names are constructed by using the CEC characteristics of type, model, and serial number.


Specify the DISPLAY environment variable to use to open the console window. The specified value overrides the current DISPLAY environment variable for the current NIM command. Specify the value in the following format: <display_address>:<screen_num>


Specify an existing NIM Management Object Name of the Hardware Control Point that you are querying.


This operation runs the nimquery command to query a remote machine for system information. You can use this information to define a new client object or CEC management object in the NIM environment. System information is obtained from the remote machines by using the NIM Service Handler (nimsh) and from the Hardware Control points by using Secure Shell (ssh).


Defines the minimum number of lower case alphabetic characters in a new password. The value is a decimal integer string with a default value of 0 and the password range is from 0 to 8.


Defines the minimum number of upper case alphabetic characters in a new password. The value is a decimal integer string with a default value of 0 and the password range is from 0 to 8.


Defines the minimum number of numeric characters in a new password. The value is a decimal integer string with a default value of 0 and the password range is from 0 to 8.


Defines the minimum number of special characters in a new password. This value is a decimal integer string with a default value of 0 and the password range is from 0 to 8.


Indicates the desired region size for mapping I/O request data buffers for DMA by the adapter function. Choose the size based on the expected number and size of I/O requests. At a minimum, the size must be larger than the maximum transfer size of the adapter function. DMA mapping region is a limited resource that is shared among all the adapter functions on the bus. If the sum of io_dma sizes for the functions on the bus exceeds the resources available to the bus, some functions might fail to configure or might fall back to smaller io_dma sizes.