The VMMPS tool

What is VMMPS ?

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Supported Platforms

The following operating systems are supported:

SUN-OS 5.8
HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.00
Linux Redhat 7.3

VMMPS Installation

Edit first your personal shell configuration file by setting the environment
variable and point the directory where the package will been installed.
Add its bin directory to your PATH environment variable.

For bash:
export VMMPS=${HOME}/<VMMPS_DIR>/vmmps
export PATH=${VMMPS}/bin:${PATH}

For tcsh:
setenv VMMPS ${HOME}/<VMMPS_DIR>/vmmps
setenv PATH ${VMMPS}/bin:${PATH}

To install Vmmps, you will need to retrieve the tarball, unpack it, and configure the environments.

Please follow these steps:

Move to your VMMPS folder

Download one of the following tarballs:

vmmps-3.8.tar.gz

Unpack the tarball

gunzip -c vmmps-<ver>.tar.gz | tar xovf -

vmmps

Move to 'src' in your $VMMPS directory

cd $VMMPS/src

Initialize the environment variables according to your shell

For bash:

source configure.bash

source configure.tcsh

Compile as following:

make all

IMPORTANT: USE GNUMAKE!!!
If GNU is not installed, make could fail. (This is warned for SUn SOLARIS during configuration in step 2)

If you have problems compiling, get one of the packages bellow

vmmpsLINUX73.tar.gz

vmmpsSOLARIS58.tar.gz

vmmpsHPUX11.tar.gz

Unpack the tar file and then just run vmmps (skip source and make steps)

Running VMMPS

Start-up the software

vmmps &

NOTE:
Currently VMMPS uses skycat, version 2.6.5. The tool (binary file) is automatically installed
(under $VMMPS/bin) during environment configuration.

- Check your skycat reference by typing:
which skycat
It should point to $VMMPS/bin/skycat

IMPORTANT: use vmmps only with 2.6.x versions of skycat!!!

VMMPS Users' Manual

Current Version: 1.0 (February 2003)

Download manual: