Install or deinstall PMDF images and databases.

Syntax

PMDF INSTALL operation-type

Command Qualifiers	Defaults
None.	None.

restrictions

Requires CMKRNL privilege.

prompts

Parameters

operation-type

The type of operation to perform. May be one of ADD, CREATE, DELETE, LIST, REMOVE, or REPLACE.

Description

The PMDF INSTALL utility is used to install or deinstall PMDF images. This utility invokes the command file image_install.com with a command of the form

$ @PMDF_COM:image_install.com PMDF operation-type

where operation-type is one of ADD, CREATE, DELETE, LIST, REMOVE, or REPLACE. Each of these operations corresponds to the OpenVMS INSTALL utility operation of the same name; consult the OpenVMS Install Utility Reference Manual for descriptions of these operations. image_install.com invokes the OpenVMS INSTALL utility and executes the operation operation-type for each file specified in the the file pmdfimage.dat in the PMDF_COM: directory. (Exclamation marks are used in that file to introduce comments.)

The pmdfimage.dat file is reserved for PMDF use and should not be modified. PMDF INSTALL will also use an optional, site-supplied PMDF_COM:siteimage.dat file, of the same format as the pmdfimage.dat file, listing additional site-specific files. Thus sites that want to install additional, site-specific PMDF images, should do so by adding them to their own siteimage.dat file.

Note that the PMDF startup procedure installs PMDF at system startup by issuing the command

$ @PMDF_COM:image_install.com PMDF CREATE

The PMDF INSTALL command is not used by the startup procedure since not all sites insert the PMDF verb into their system DCL tables.

CMKRNL privilege is required to use the PMDF INSTALL utility.

EXAMPLES

The following command may be used to deinstall any installed PMDF images:

$ PMDF INSTALL DELETE