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Viewing Shared-Memory Segments


This task describes how to view information about the shared-memory segments. The PATROL KM for UNIX lists the type of memory, permissions, owner, and group.

To View Shared-Memory Segments

  1. Access the MEMORY application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
  2. Select List Shared Memory Segments.
     BMC PATROL writes the information to a BMC PATROL task object (List Shared Memory Segments) in the MEMORY container.
  3. Access the List Shared Memory Segments task object as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes and view the results. Your results should resemble this example:
IPC status from <running system> as of Tue May  8 HH:MM:SS CDT CCYY
T         ID       KEY        MODE      OWNER     GROUP
Shared Memory:
m        101   0x1038f476 --rw-rw-rw-   3supr     admin
m        102   0x4130f478 --rw-rw-rw-   Night1    shift
m       7703   0x4140f47b --rw-rw-rw-   bsmith    HR_VA
m        104   0x4109f479 --rw-rw-rw-   ljohns    ACCTG
m        205   0x4111f37a --rw-rw-rw-   vpatel    IS_TX
m        106   0x4122f52c --rw-rw-rw-   vpatel    IS_TX
m        207   0x4103f47e --rw-rw-rw-   jocruz    admin
m        908   0x4777f47f --rw-rw-rw-   odella    DISTB
-------------------- >>>>> DONE <<<<< --------------------

Output Format

The output has the following format. Following table defines each expression.

IPC status from <running system> as of Tue May  8 HH:MM:SS CDT CCYY
T         ID       KEY        MODE      OWNER     GROUP
Shared Memory:
m        101   0x1038f476 --rw-rw-rw-   uname     gname
-------------------- >>>>> DONE <<<<< --------------------
 

 List of Shared-Segment Command Output Format

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BMC PATROL for UNIX and Linux 9.13