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ASCII files. The Web-based System Manager and SMIT interfaces use the WLM
commands to record the information in the same flat ASCII files.
These files are named as follows:
classes Class definitions
description Configuration description text
limits Class limits
shares Class target shares
rules Class assignment rules
These files are called the WLM property files. A set of WLM property files defines
a WLM configuration. You can create multiple sets of property files, defining
different configurations of workload management. These configurations are
located in subdirectories of /etc/wlm. The WLM property files describing the
superclasses of the Config configuration are the file's classes, description, limits,
shares, and rules in /etc/wlm/Config. Then, the property files describing the
subclasses of the superclass Super of this configuration are the file's classes,
limits, shares, and rules in the directory /etc/wlm/Config/Super. Only the root
user can start or stop WLM, or switch from one configuration to another.
The command to submit the WLM property files, wlmcntrl, and the other WLM
commands allow users to specify an alternate directory name for the WLM
properties files. This allows you to change the WLM properties without altering
the default WLM property files.
A symbolic link, /etc/wlm/current, points to the directory containing the current
configuration files. Update this link with the wlmcntrl command when you start
WLM with a specified set of configuration files. The sample configuration files
shipped with the operating system are in /etc/wlm/standard.
WLM configuration is performed through the preferred interface, the Web-based
System Manager (Figure 10-3 on page 276), through a text editor and AIX
commands, or through the AIX administration tool SMIT.
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