ISMTool informational commands

This section describes the ISMTool commands that provide information about the build environment.

• --help
• --env
• --myversion
• --info ISMDIR
• --showParams ISMDIR
• --showPkgs ISMNAME
• --showOrder ISMNAME
• --showPathProps ISMNAME

--help

Display the ISMTool command-line help.

--env

Display the locations of system-level tools found in the environment. This command is helpful for investigating build problem and for verifying that the environment variable ISMTOOLBINPATH is set correctly. For example, on a Unix system --env might display the following:

% ismtool --env
bzip2: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/bzip2
cpio: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/cpio
gzip: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/gzip
install: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/install
17
patch: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/patch
python: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/python
pythonlib: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/lib/python1.5
rpm2cpio: /usr/bin/rpm2cpio
rpm: /bin/rpm
rpmbuild: /usr/bin/rpmbuild
tar: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/tar
unzip: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/unzip
wget: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/wget
zip: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/zip
zipinfo: /usr/local/ismtool/lib/tools/bin/zipinfo
pkgengines: [’rpm4’]

--myversion

Display the version of the ISMTool.

--info ISMDIR

Display an overview of the internal information about the ISM contained in the directory ISMDIR. After the build is completed, more detailed information is available, which can be viewed in browser at this URL:

<ISMDIR>/doc/index/index.html

--showParams ISMDIR

Display the name, default value, type, and description for each control parameter.

--showPkgs ISMNAME

Display the list of all packages managed by the ISM. This list includes the control package, the application package, all passthru packages, and all inner packages contained in passthru packages. Examples of inner packages are Solaris package instances contained in Solaris packages, or an update fileset contained in a AIX LPP package. For each managed package, the package name, type, attached status and all meta data that can be set will be listed.

--showOrder ISMNAME

Display the current install order of attached packages managed by the ISM.

--showPathProps ISMNAME

This option is deprecated in Server Automation 6.0.

Displays the values currently specified for software policy meta data.