
Media Processing Server System Operator’s Guide
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Status Monitoring
The Media Processing Server has many built-in functions for monitoring system and
line status. With these functions, the status of components, spans, external host(s),
phone lines, MMF files, applications, the Call Control Manager (CCM), the Voice
Memory Manager (VMM), and the Startup and Recovery Process (SRP) can be easily
monitored. Standard commands can also be used to display and/or modify the system
date and time.
System Date/Time
To check the system date and time, enter date at any Solaris or Media Processing
Server shell command line. The super-user can use date to modify the system date
and time. See the Solaris system documentation for more information.
Although it is not necessary to alter the system date for daylight savings time, users
are often unaware of this. In this regard, it is not recommended to change the system
time by issuing the date command directly. If the time is set back by issuing the
date command, cron will have difficulty performing scheduled tasks, all of
which will become queued up until cron itself terminates. Evidence of this can
usually be detected in the /var/cron/log file. If the system time is adjusted to a
point prior to the start time of cron, its jobs are not rescheduled correctly. The correct
method to alter the system date is to stop cron, issue the date command, and
restart cron as shown below:
/etc/rc2.d/S75cron stop
date <new_date/time>
/etc/rc2.d/S75cron start
If the time or date on the system was recently changed, be sure that the clocks on all
the communicating systems are synchronized. Non-synchronized system times can
adversely affect statistics collection.
Solaris Management Console
Solaris Management (SMC) Console provides a scheduler GUI. This allows to set up
cron jobs through the use of a GUI instead of editing the crontabs file manually.
Follow the below steps to edit a list of existing crons:
• On the console, (as any valid user such as peri or root) open a command
window and execute: /usr/sadm/bin/smc
• Allow several minutes for the SMC to initialize and configure itself.
• At the welcome screen, expand “this computer” icon.
• Select the “services” option.
• Enter the user in the login prompt (this is the cron user you plan to manage—
peri or root)
• The existing crons will be listed and you can add/delete/modify the jobs as
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