HP Process Resource Manager User's Guide

Conﬁguring and enabling PRM on the command line

Conﬁguring PRM

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Step 4. Load the conﬁguration using one of the following commands:

To initialize, moving user processes to the owners’ initial groups and

moving applications to their assigned groups, use the command:

# prmconfig -i [-f configfile] {-s | -c}

To keep the existing assignments of users, processes, and groups, use the

command:

# prmconfig -k [-f configfile] {-s | -c}

Use the -f configfile option to specify a ﬁle other than the default

/etc/prmconf. The -s option displays warnings regarding the

conﬁguration ﬁle. (The -c option displays a subset of the -s warnings.)

NOTE If you change a user’s initial group, using prmconfig -i resets the user’s

processes. With prmconfig -k, all of the user’s currently running

processes continue to execute in their current group until a prmmove is

done or until the user logs in again. Any other processes continue to run

in their current group unless moved with prmmove. For more information

on these options, see Table 7-1 on page 154.

Step 5. Enable PRM’s application manager if it is not already enabled:

# prmconfig -e APPL

Alternatively, enable all PRM resource managers using prmconfig -e

without any additional arguments:

# prmconfig -e

Example: Changing the initial group of a user Consider this

scenario in which a user’s initial group is changed. One of the sales

advisors, advisor6, has decided to change jobs and move to the

purchasing department. The user’s login does not change. However, in

the PRM conﬁguration ﬁle, advisor6 needs to be added to the

purchasing group and removed from the sales group. Also, the number

of shares for the user’s original and new groups need to be modiﬁed to

meet each group’s anticipated resource needs.