SMIT

The System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) provides a menu-driven interface that
provides access to most of the common system management functions within one
consistent environment.
                   SMIT is managed by ODM.It also contains all of the menus, screens and
commands that SMIT uses.


..........Special symbols on the screen are used to indicate how data is to be entered:

*              A required field
#              A numeric value is required for this field.
/               A pathname is required for this field.
X             A hexadecimal value is required for this field.
?              The value entered will not be displayed.
+              A pop-up list or ring is available.


                                                    log files

$HOME/smit.log 
this log files keeps records all the menus and dialog box visited and also all the commands runwith the output.it also records any errors during the SMIT session.




 $HOME/smit.script 
shell script containing all aix commands executed through SMIT.