PMDF System Manager's Guide

The next step is to create a script channel option file. The name of the option file is x_option where x is the name of the channel, hence usually script_option , and the file should be placed in the PMDF table directory.

This file is used to tell the script channel what command to run, using the COMMAND option. For example, to run a site-supplied virus checking command procedure on OpenVMS:

COMMAND=@pmdf_com:check-virus.com/output=pmdf_log:check-virus.out

The default command run by the script channel if none is supplied in an option file is @pmdf_com:script_command.com on OpenVMS, /pmdf/bin/script_script.sh on UNIX, and C:\pmdf\exe\script_batch.bat on NT. Note that there is no default version of this file supplied by PMDF.