The MagniComp SysInfo runtime configuration (RC) file allows customization of runtime arguments and options for the SysInfo Command Line Interface (mcsysinfocli(1)) and the SysInfo Graphical User Interface (mcsysinfogui(1)).
Command line arguments take precedence over options read from mcsysinfo.cfg files.
The following files are read (in order) when mcsysinfo is executed:
/opt/sysinfo/config/mcsysinfo.cfg
/etc/mcsysinfo/mcsysinfo.cfg
$HOME/.mcsysinfo/mcsysinfo.cfg
The most recently read value takes precedence over previously read values.
Lines beginning with a hash (#) character are taken as comment lines and are ignored.
Each line of the RC file has the form:
key=value
The key is case insensitive. If key is a boolean, than the possible values for value are yes, no, true, and false. Boolean values are case insensitive.
Some key options corresponds to a command line option. The following table describes each key value and its corresponding command line option (if any):
| KEY | COMMAND LINE | VALUE TYPE | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cache | --cache | boolean | Enable (YES) or disable (NO) caching of class and license data. The default is to cache data. | NO | ||||||
| CacheDir | --cachedir | dir | Use dir as the top level cache directory. | /var/tmp | ||||||
| ConfigDir | --configdir | dir | Specify the name of the directory to use to find sysinfo.cf format configuration files. | /local/sysinfo/config | ||||||
| DriverPath | path | Use path as a colon sperated list of directories to search for SysInfo drivers. This value may only be set in the /opt/sysinfo/config/mcsysinfo.cfg file. | /sw/sysinfo/drivers:/local/sysinfo/drivers | |||||||
| Encode | --encode | EncodeType | Encode output in the manor specified
by
EncodeType. Valid values are:
| html | ||||||
| ExecPath | path | Use path as a colon seperated list of directories to search for the actual binary executables to run. | /opt/sysinfo/libexec/platform/${OSNAME}-${OSVERSION}-${CPUARCH}:/opt/sysinfo/libexec/platform/${OSNAME}-${OSMAJVERSION}-${CPUARCH}:/opt/sysinfo/libexec/platform/${OSNAME}-${CPUARCH} | |||||||
| ExpireTime | --expiretime | seconds | Expire cached data after seconds. | 1000 | ||||||
| Format | --format | FormatType | Specify the format layout and display of requested data. Valid FormatType values are: pretty (deprecated), report, tree. | columns | ||||||
| GUI | --gui | boolean | If YES is specified, the Graphical User Interface will be run if the user's environment is configured with $DISPLAY and the local system supports it. Setting this option to NO disables the GUI and forces the Command Line Interface (CLI) to be used. | NO | ||||||
| HaveSharedLib | YES | NO | Does this system supported shared (dynamic) libraries? | YES | |||||||
| Hints | --hints | boolean | If YES is specified (the default) then hints about how to use the CLI will be displayed to standard error (stderr). Such hints will be prefixed with HINT. If NO is specified, no hints will be displayed. | NO | ||||||
| Host | --host | hostname | Retrieve information from host which may be either a hostname or IP address. The host must be running the mcsysinfod(8) SysInfo server agent. If this option is not specified, SysInfo scans the local system directly without talking to mcsysinfod(8). | desktop101 | ||||||
| LicPorts | --licports | start-end | Specify the range of ports to scan for license servers where start is the port number to start with and end is a port number to end at. | 7000-7200,7300-7999 | ||||||
| MsgClass | --msgclass | MsgClassList | Specify which class of messages should be output. See mcsysinfocli(1) for details. | all | ||||||
| MsgLevel | --msglevel | MsgLevelList | Set the level of messages that are shown. See mcsysinfocli(1) for details. | all | ||||||
| NoSerial | --noserial | boolean | Disable checking for duplicate devices using serial numbers. | |||||||
| OffSet | --offset | #spaces | Set the number of spaces to offset (indent) when printing device information. | 12 | ||||||
| Password | --password | password | Use password as the plain text password when user authentication is required by mcsysinfod(8). This option is only needed when used with --host and --username options. | funinsun | ||||||
| Port | --port | port# | Use port# as the port that mcsysinfod(8) is listening on. This option is only applicable with the --host option. | 12000 | ||||||
| RepSep | --repsep | string | Change the field separator string used with --format report to be string. | , | ||||||
| SiePath | --siepath | path | Use path as the pathname to the SysInfo Engine (SIE). | /local/sysinfo/libexec/sie | ||||||
| SharedLibPath | path | Use path as a colon seperated list of directories which contain shared libraries. | /opt/sysinfo/lib/libexec:/local/sysinfo/lib/libexec | |||||||
| SiteInfoSetScopes | scopes | Restrict what
SysInfo SiteInfo files can be updated via
--siteinfo-* options.
scopes is a comma seperated list which may
contain:
| user,system | |||||||
| SnmpMibsDir | path | Use path as the directory containing SysInfo's SNMP MIBS files. | /local/sysinfo/config/mibs | |||||||
| SwFiles | --swfiles | boolean | When YES is specified and software class information is being displayed, a list of files and file data is displayed for all files belonging to each package. | YES | ||||||
| Unknown | --unknown | boolean | Show devices that appear to be present on the system, but are not "known" to SysInfo. | |||||||
| Unused | --unused | boolean | Show entries (such as partitions) that do not appear to be in use. | |||||||
| UseProm | --useprom | boolean | Obtain data from the system PROM instead of interpreting values obtained directly from the kernel. | |||||||
| Username | --username | user | Use user as the username to authenticate with when authentication is required by mcsysinfod(8). This option is only needed when used with --host and --password options. | fred |