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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

daxinfo (8)

Name

daxinfo - display Database Analytics Accelerator information

Synopsis

/usr/bin/daxinfo [[-p] -o <field>[,...]]

Description

The daxinfo command prints current information about the Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) hardware in the system on standard output. When options are specified, one or more items of DAX information will be written to the standard output. If no options are specified, all supported fields are displayed.

Options

The following options are supported:

–o field[,...]

Display a case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all supported fields. List of supported fields are:

version

Prints the DAX version

opcodes

Prints list of supported DAX operation codes

enabled

Prints number of available DAX instances

disabled

Prints number of DAX instances with hardware errors

–p

Display output in a stable, machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p option.

Exit Status

The daxinfo command can return any of the following exit status codes:

0

Command succeeded

1

An error occurred

2

Invalid command-line options are specified

Examples

Example 1 Invoking the daxinfo command on a System with DAX1 Hardware
example% daxinfo
 Version: DAX1
 Opcodes: Extract Scan Select Translate
 Enabled: 4
Disabled: 0

example% daxinfo -o enabled
Enabled: 4

example% daxinfo -o opcodes
Opcodes: Extract Scan Select Translate

example% daxinfo -p -o version,enabled,disabled
DAX1:4:0
Example 2 Invoking the daxinfo command on a System with DAX2 Hardware
example% daxinfo -p -o version
DAX2

example% daxinfo -p -o enabled
8

example% daxinfo -o all
 Version: DAX2
 Opcodes: Extract Scan Select Translate
 Enabled: 8
Disabled: 0

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/core-os
Interface Stability
Uncommitted

See Also

daxstat(8), attributes(7)