HP Process Resource Manager User's Guide

Configuring and enabling PRM on the command line
Configuring PRM
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ALTERNATEGROUP
Is the name of one of the alternate PRM groups for the
user or netgroup. Alternate groups are groups other
than the initial group that the user or netgroup
members are allowed to run processes in. The user or
netgroup members can start a process in an alternate
group using prmrun or can move an existing process to
an alternate group using prmmove.
Alternate groups are not meaningful for root users
because they have access to all PRM groups.
NOTE If INITIALGROUP or ALTERNATEGROUP is in a hierarchy, it must be a leaf
group (a group with no child groups). You cannot assign users to parent
groups. For example, in the configuration below, TWO is a parent group
and TWO/b is a leaf group.
#Group records
TWO:HIER:60::
TWO/b:3:50::
#User records
user1::::TWO # INVALID
user2::::TWO/b # VALID
Consequently, TWO cannot be used in a user record.
For more information on hierarchical groups, see “Hierarchical PRM
groups” on page 38.
User records for nonroot users cannot contain the name of the PRM
system group, PRM_SYS.
The second, third, and fourth fields of a user record must be null.