High-Level Perspective

From a high-level, user-oriented perspective, device configuration comprises the basic tasks that are listed in this section.

  • Adding a device to the system
  • Deleting a device from the system
  • Changing the attributes of a device
  • Showing information about a device

From a high-level, system-oriented perspective, device configuration provides the basic task of automatic device configuration: running the configuration manager program.

A set of high-level commands accomplish all of these tasks during run time: chdev, mkdev, lsattr, lsconn, lsdev, lsparent, rmdev, and cfgmgr. High-level commands can invoke device methods and low-level commands.