118 SunPCi III 3.2.1 User’s Guide •March 2004
Boot@Boot Support
Boot@Boot is a feature that you can configure to automatically start the SunPCi III
software on one or more SunPCi III cards when it is installed on a Sun system. The
ability to automatically restart SunPCi sessions if they fail and the ability to
gracefully shut down SunPCi sessions (including performing an orderly shutdown
of the operating system) are also part of the Boot@Boot support.
Boot@Boot currently supports all supported SunPCi versions of Microsoft Windows
and Linux.
The following SunPCi III 3.2.1 software components support Boot@Boot:
■SunPCi daemon - This is a required component.
■VirtualNetwork Computing 1(VNC) -This is an optional component.

SunPCi Daemon

The SunPCi daemon (sunpcid) is a dual-function application of Boot@Boot support
and includes such features as automatically starting SunPCi sessions at boot time
and shutting down SunPCi sessions at system shutdown time. The daemon is
controlled through the sunpcidadm command.
The sunpcidadm command implements control functionality through command-
line arguments that enable Solaris server administrators to configure the SunPCi
daemon process to work as needed. For example, you can use the sunpcidadm
command to add Boot@Boot support for a SunPCi III card into the
/etc/Master.ini file, which has been expanded to contain the configuration
information for the sunpcidadm daemon.
Youcan also use the sunpcidadm command to enable and disable auto restart
functionality,and to start and stop the SunPCi software on one or more cards. When
changes are made to the SunPCi daemon configuration by the sunpcidadm
command with command-line arguments, the controlling sunpcidadm daemon
sends a signal to the SunPCi daemon process, informing it of the changes, and the
daemon process reconfiguresitself.
1. VirtualNetwork Computing (VNC) software is copyright 1993 by X Consortium and copyright 1999 by
AT&TLaboratories.All rights reserved. The SunPCi implementation of VNC supports the SunPCi product
only.Otherversions of VNC will not interoperate with this version of VNC. VNC source code is included on
theSunPCi III CD in the directory /Source. See legal notices in the source code for information about using,
modifying,or redistributing VNC sourcecode.