Azul Zing System Tools Installed Files

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Important

Azul Zing System Tools (ZST) is deprecated, and support is scheduled to end on September 1, 2027. After this date, Azul will no longer provide updates or support for ZST. Please contact Azul Support if you have questions about migrating.

Azul Zing System Tools (ZST) software consists of a kernel loadable module, and licensing daemon. and supporting scripts and tools. This section contains a list of all the files included with the driver software installation. The following files are installed as part of the ZST software package:

Users Tools

/usr/bin/zing-ps List Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK (Zing) system and process memory usage.

Administrator Tools

/usr/sbin/zing-llpmem Low-level Zing memory and account manipulation. Not meant to be invoked directly by the user.
/usr/sbin/zing-configure-pmem High-level Zing memory manipulation. Only expert users should consider running this directly. Normally, this tool is called automatically by higher-level tools. Reads pmem.conf configuration file. Invokes zing-llpmem to do low-level work. Called by zing-memory init script.
/usr/sbin/system-config-zing-memory Zing memory configuration wizard. Users who want to quickly get started with Zing should run this tool. Creates pmem.conf file. See Configure Zing Memory.
/usr/sbin/system-config-zing-core-pattern Zing core bundling configuration wizard. For automatically generating Zing core bundles, see Troubleshooting Zing.

Configuration Files

/etc/zing/pmem.conf.default Default Zing physical memory configuration file. Software relies on this file to be in a pristine state. Do not modify this file.
/etc/zing/pmem.conf Active Zing physical memory configuration file. Created by system-config-zing-memory, or manually by the user. See the zing-pmem-conf man page for more information about this file.
/etc/zing/pmem.conf.*example Various example configuration files.

Man Pages

/usr/share/man/man7/zing-*.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zing-*.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/zing-*.5.gz

Title Content

Title	Content
`zing (7)`	Top-level description of Azul Prime components and high level installation instructions.
`zing-installation (7)`	Basic description of how to install Azul Prime components including ZST and Zing.
`zing-zst (7)`	Description of ZST components.
`zing-pmem-conf (5)`	Describes how to configure, replace, and load Zing physical memory configuration file.
`zing-ps (1)`	Report a snapshot of current Zing usage.

zing (7)

Top-level description of Azul Prime components and high level installation instructions.

zing-installation (7)

Basic description of how to install Azul Prime components including ZST and Zing.

zing-zst (7)

Description of ZST components.

zing-pmem-conf (5)

Describes how to configure, replace, and load Zing physical memory configuration file.

zing-ps (1)

Report a snapshot of current Zing usage.

ZST Configuration File Relationships

The following flow diagram shows how the configuration files and tools relate to one another:

 /usr/sbin/system-config-zing-memory
--> /etc/init.d/zing-memory start
--> /sbin/insmod .../zing_mm.ko
--> /usr/sbin/zing-configure-pmem
--> /usr/sbin/zing-llpmem

ZST Boot Sequence File Relationships

After installation and configuration, on bootup, the zing-memory init script loads the kernel module and partition memory. The following flow diagram shows how the boot sequence files and tools relate to one another:

 /etc/init.d/zing-memory start
--> /sbin/insmod .../zing_mm.ko
--> /usr/sbin/zing-configure-pmem
--> /usr/sbin/zing-llpmem

ZST Update Software File Relationships

The following flow diagram shows how the update files and tools relate to one another:

 /usr/sbin/system-config-zing-memory
--> /etc/init.d/zing-memory start
--> /sbin/insmod .../zing_mm.ko
--> /usr/sbin/zing-configure-pmem
--> /usr/sbin/zing-llpmem