SMC_CHK(8)

📦 version 1.8.8, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 NAME 💖

smc_chk — SMC support diagnostics. (Yup bestie, you're on the SMC_CHK(8) page from the Linux Programmer's Manual, and we're about to make diagnostics make sense. 💅✨)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

smc_chk [OPTIONS] -C IP
smc_chk [OPTIONS] -S
smc_chk -i INTERFACE

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the whole vibe: use -C/--connect to obtain diagnostic information about the SMC support of a service that runs at a given IP address. Otherwise, you can use -S/--server to start a server before connecting with -C. Use -i/--pnetid to print the PNET ID of a specified INTERFACE. That's the main-character flow. 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -C, --connect IP — Test SMC-D and SMC-R connectivity to IP. Use option -p/--port to specify a PORT. IP can specify any service, including remote services. By default, IP is assumed to be in IPv4 format. Specify -6/--IPv6 if IP is an address in IPv6 format. 🔥
  • -d, --debug — Show debug messages. 👀
  • -h, --help — Display a brief smc_chk usage information. 🫶
  • -i, --pnetid INTERFACE — Print the PNET ID of interface INTERFACE and exit. An appended asterisk * indicates that the PNET ID was defined via smc_pnet. 💅
  • -p, --port PORT — Use port PORT for any live tests. When starting a server via -S, --server, and if PORT is already in use, the next free port is used. 🎀
  • -S, --server — Start a server for manual tests. Use option -p/--port to specify a port. ✨
  • -v, --version — Display version information. 💜
  • -6, --ipv6 — IP address provided is in IPv6 format. 🌈

🌸 Examples 🌸

Check whether a z/OS instance running at 192.168.37.1 is enabled for SMC using the 3270 console service running on port 23

smc_chk -C 192.168.37.1 -p 23

Print PNET ID of interface eth0

smc_chk -i eth0

Start server on port 45901 (or the next successive free port) for smc_chk -C to connect to

smc_chk -S -p 45901

🔥 RETURN CODES 🔥

On success, smc_chk returns 0. If an error occurs, a return code other than 0 is returned. 😭✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

af_smc(7), smc_pnet(8), smc_run(8), smcd(8), smcr(8), smcss(8)

💖 That's it, bestie! This page is from smc-tools, January 2021 — SMC_CHK(8) energy all the way. Go diagnose something iconic. 🫶✨

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