pcd(1M) provides and manages controlled access to platform, domain and system board configuration data. It is an SMS daemon running on the system controller (SC) and a key component of SMS configuration. All system management applications access the database information through the pcd daemon.

In addition to managing platform configuration data, the pcd notifies registered system management applications when pertinent database changes have occurred. These notifications are registered as events and transparent to the user.

This daemon is started automatically by the ssd(1M) daemon. Do not start it manually from the command line.

Platform data includes:

Platform type Platform name Rack ID Cacheable Memory Address Slice Map System clock frequency System clock type SC IP address SC0 to SC1 IP address SC1 to SC0 IP address SC to SC IP netmask

Domain data includes:

Domain ID/Tag OS version (not used) OS type (not used) Available component list Assigned board list Active board list Golden IOSRAM I/O board Virtual keyswitch setting Active Ethernet I/O board Domain creation time Domain dump state Domain bring up priority IP host addressHost name Host netmask Host broadcast address

System board data includes:

Expander Position Slot position Board type Board state Domain assignment of the board Available component list state Board test status Board test level Memory cleared state

SIGHUP

Rereads the database files and recaches information.

The following files are supported:

/var/opt/SUNWSMS/.pcd/platform_info

Contains platform database information

/var/opt/SUNWSMS/.pcd/domain_info

Contains domain database information

/var/opt/SUNWSMS/.pcd/sysboard_info

Contains system board database information

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ssd(1m)