IBM Spectrum Symphony command summary

IBM® Spectrum Symphony provides commands for various purposes.

Development environment commands

The following commands are available in IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition.

Command Description
soamcontrol Controls applications, sessions, and tasks.
soamdeploy Deploys, removes, and displays information about service packages for consumers.
soamlog Dynamically changes the log level for IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition components.
soammod Modifies session priority to enable high priority workload to finish faster.
soamreg Registers an application or updates the application profile of a registered application.
soamunreg Unregisters an application and deletes the application profile preventing more sessions from being started for this application.
soamstartup In IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition only, starts IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition processes on the local host.
soamshutdown In IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition only, immediately shuts down IBM Spectrum Symphony processes on the local host.
soamswitch Windows only. Resets the system environment for the application client: connecting to an IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition cluster from the IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition installation environment; connecting to an IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition cluster from the IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition installation environment; or connecting to an IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition cluster using the IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition installation environment.
soamview Displays information about applications, sessions, and tasks, and displays the application profile.
symexec Run executables as IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition applications.
symping Sends workload to a cluster to test and verify that IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition components are working and responsive.

Cluster management and control commands

The following commands are available in IBM Spectrum Symphony.

Command Description
egosh Launches the administrative command interface to EGO.
egostartup (script) Starts all EGO components of a cluster.
egoshutdown (script) Shuts down a cluster.
gridsync IBM Spectrum Symphony Advanced Edition only. Synchronizes data sets across a cluster.
pversions Displays the version information for IBM products installed on a Windows host. This is a Windows command only; this command is not recognized on Linux® systems.
rfa Transfers files between hosts.
rsdeploy Deploys and removes middleware packages. You must be a cluster administrator to run this command.
soamlog Dynamically changes the log level for IBM Spectrum Symphony components.

Cluster configuration commands

The following commands are available in IBM Spectrum Symphony.

Command Description
egoconfig Configures hosts.
egosetrc or egosetsystemd Configures automatic startup of EGO on a Linux host.
egoremoverc or egoremovesystemd Prevents automatic startup of EGO on a Linux host.
egosetsudoers Creates an etc/ego/sudoers file to determine accounts with root privileges on the Linux host within a cluster.

Workload management commands

The following commands are available in IBM Spectrum Symphony.

Command Description
soamcontrol Controls applications, sessions, and tasks.
soamdeploy Deploys, removes, and displays information about service packages for consumers.
soamlogon Logs the user on to IBM Spectrum Symphony for a specific time period.
soamlogoff Ends the logon session with IBM Spectrum Symphony.
soammod Modifies session priority to enable high priority workload to finish faster.
soamreg Registers an application or updates the application profile of a registered application.
soamunreg Unregisters an application and deletes the application profile preventing more sessions from being started for this application.
soamswitch Windows only. Resets the system environment for the application client: connecting to an IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition cluster from the DE installation environment; connecting to an IBM Spectrum Symphony cluster from the IBM Spectrum Symphony Developer Edition installation environment; or connecting to an IBM Spectrum Symphony cluster using the IBM Spectrum Symphony installation environment.
soamview Displays information about applications, sessions, and tasks, and displays the application profile.
symexec Run executables as IBM Spectrum Symphony applications.
symping Sends workload to a cluster to test and verify that IBM Spectrum Symphony components are working and responsive.