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Starting the Monitor Interface from the Command Line

To start the monitor interface use the monitor option to the console command. For example, to start the monitor interface for the systems SALT and PEPPER:

Enter:

$ CONSOLE MONITOR SALT, PEPPER

The system specified in the command to the monitor interface may be a groupname as defined in the configuration database. If so, the group is translated and each member of that group is made available for you to look at using the VIEW command. For more information about the VIEW command, see the section, Displaying a Different System.

Any system-name specified on the command line is tested to see if it is a symbol or logical name on the OpenVMS operating system. If it is, the system-name is translated into a list of systems to monitor. For this translation to occur correctly, the definition of the environment variable, symbol or logical name must be a list of valid systems (or other environment variables) separated by spaces. For example, to monitor the ALPHA system set, which consists of systems A, B, C and D, do the following:

Enter:

$ DEFINE ALPHA "A B C D"
$ CONSOLE MONITOR ALPHA

Or, alternatively enter:

$ ALPHA :== "A B C D"
$ CONSOLE MONITOR ALPHA

If no system-name is specified on the command line, all systems to which the user has been granted access in the configuration database are available to look at using the VIEW command.

Note: When a system name is specified on the command line, Console Manager checks to see if it is a logical name or symbol, and if so, translates it. However, Console Manager does not translate the following names: HOME, USER, TERM, SHELL, MAIL, EXINIT and PATH.