DMI 2.0 Installation and release notes

Starting the DMI Service Provider

The script, /etc/init.d/dmi, is provided to start the DMI Service Provider when the UnixWare 7 system is booted. To start the Service Provider manually, assuming that it is not already running, enter one of the following commands as root:

dmi start
dmi start -w

Because the DMI2.0 specification does not include security support, a -w (write enable) option provides limited protection from unwanted accesses. If DMI is started without this option on managed systems, its Service Provider will block:

attempts to set attributes even if the access method is read-write or write-only
attempts to add or delete table rows apart from those required for indication subscription and filtering

NOTE: When viewing a component's attributes, read-write attributes are reported as read-write; it is only when an attempt to set one is made that DMIERR_ILLEGAL_TO_SET is returned. This enables you to distinguish between read-only attributes and, normally writeable, attributes to which access is being blocked.

When the DMI Service Provider is running, there should be one copy of each of these processes:

dmispd: The DMI Service Provider daemon
oncsp: The DMI ONC RPC services daemon

To check this, use the following commands:

ps -ef | grep dmispd
ps -ef | grep oncsp

See dmi(1M) for further information.