Solstice Enterprise Agents 1.0 User Guide

5.4.2 Invoking DMI Service Provider

After installing, a script file invokes the DMI SP at boot time if the /etc/dmi/conf/dmispd.conf configuration file contains neither blank lines nor comment lines. The DMI SP is invoked using the following options:

dmispd [-h] [-c config_dir] [-d debug_level]
Table 5–1 Invoking DMI SP Arguments

Argument 

Definition 

-h

Displays the command line usage 

-c confid_dir

The full path of the directory containing the dmispd.conf configuration file

-d debug_level

In debug mode, the process does not run as a daemon and it displays trace messages on the display screen; depending on the debug_level (1-5), it prints a specific amount of information