ssadm active

ssadm active prints a description of the configuration that is currently being executed by the Screen. When run with the -x option, the configuration file is extracted from the running system and can be saved for later examination.

Usage:

ssadm active

ssadm active -x policy

Without the -x option, ssadm active describes the active configuration with two lines of text. The first line lists the name of the Screen on which the configuration was originally stored, the name of the internal database in which it was stored (this name is always default), and the name of the policy, including its version number. The second line lists the date and time when the configuration was activated, and the user (either a Solaris user or SunScreen administration authorized user) who caused it to be activated.

For example:

# ssadm active
Active configuration: greatwall default Initial.3
Activated by admin on 03/09/1999 02:58:36 PM PST

In this example, the Screen is currently running a configuration that came from the Screen named greatwall (which might be the current Screen or, if the Screen is a member of a centralized management group, the primary Screen of the centralized administration group). The configuration includes version 3 of the policy Initial.

With the -x option, ssadm active saves the active configuration into the named policy that can be examined using the edit command. The named policy must not already exist; ssadm active creates the policy. The -x option differs from a normal policy. A normal policy file contains only policy rules, which are combined with the currently-defined common objects. The policy saved by the -x option contains a full snapshot of all common objects, in addition to the policy rules.

If the -x option is specified and the policy argument is omitted, ssadm active writes a configuration file to standard output. Since the format of a configuration file is undocumented and private to the SunScreen internal software, using ssadm active in this way is not supported.