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Introduction

System Service Processor (SSP) software provides booting and system administration functions for the Enterprise 10000 (code name "Starfire") from a separate Sun workstation.

The following are switches for SSP commands that are not documented in a man page (directory /opt/SUNWssp/man/man1m/) for SSP 3.3. Several new and (undocumented) old options were added to the documentation for SSP 3.2 and 3.3--so get the latest SSP manuals!

Unless otherwise mentioned, all commands here are available starting with SSP 3.0 (the first release of SSP for the Enterprise 10000). (SSP 2.x was for the earlier-generation Cray CS6400). See below for Notational Conventions.

Use caution with undocumented option flags! In some cases, there's a good reason for not documenting them. Please let me know of additions or SSP commands that aren't listed.
- Dan Anderson <danx@West>

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Notational Conventions

I use the getopt(3c) "optstring parameter" syntax to specify command line parameters. That is, I list all valid flags in a string. Each flag that's followed with a parameter has a colon after it. To quote the getopt(3c) man page:

optstring must contain the option letters the command using getopt() will recognize; if a letter is followed by a colon, the option is expected to have an argument, or group of arguments, which may be separated from it by white space.

I list undocumented flags in bold after the command name, in getopt(3c) format.. For example, "netcon de:fglM:" means the d and M switches are undocumented. It also means that both the e and M options are followed with a parameter, as in "netcon -e %" Each undocumented command line option is explained below the command.

Notes on searching SSP source code for arguments

Here's some things to look for when searching for SSP source code that accesses command line options:

SSP Source

SSP source code is located here: Locally (San Diego): SSP 3.0, SSP 3.1, SSP 3.1.1, SSP 3.2, SSP 3.3, SSP 3.4, SSP 3.5, COD 1.0, COD 1.1

Elsewhere (outside San Diego): SSP 3.0, SSP 3.1, SSP 3.1.1, SSP 3.2, SSP 3.3, SSP 3.4, SSP 3.5, COD 1.0, COD 1.1

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