FLEX lm uses different machine identifications for different machine architectures. For example, all Sun Microsystems, Inc. machines have a unique hostid, but all DEC machines do not. The ethernet address is used on some machine architectures as the "Host ID". An ethernet address is a 6-byte quantity, with each byte specified as two hexadecimal digits. Specify all 12 hex digits when using an ethernet address as a hostid. For example, if the ethernet address is 8:0:20:0:5:ac, specify "0800200005AC" as the hostid.
The program lmhostid will print the exact hostid that FLEX lm expects to use on any given machine. The following table lists alternate methods to obtain the required hostid for each machine architecture.
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32-bit hostid 2 |
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"id module" 3 |
read ID typed on module, remove `A', and convert remainder to hex. |
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uname -x (returns SCO00354), then remove any non hex proceeding letters from the serial number |
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1. The "arp hostname" (substitute the name of the desired host) command must be issued on another machine on the network, not on the target machine. Alternately, the ethernet address can be read at boot time on the machine console.
2. Default for FLEX lm v3.0 and above only. See lmhostid (1) .