Querying the single system image configuration

An application may need to determine whether it is running on a client node or a server node of a single system image, or if it is running on a stand-alone system. It may need to do this, for example, to restrict the running of housekeeping processes to one machine.

The application can find this information like this:

To find from the command line the type of system you are logged on to, use the ssistatus command. For more information, see the description of this command in Blueworx Voice Response for AIX: Configuring the System.