Getting Dixer¶

You can download a evaluation binary here.

Setup¶

Add execute permissions¶

In UNIX systems, add execution permission to binary downloaded with chmod +x dixer_binary.

Execute Green and Full editions in Linux and macOS¶

Green and Full editions needs to export environments variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH in Linux and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in macOS with the path of clidriver/lib required to use IBM DB2 driver.

Linux:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=THE_PATH_OF_CLIDRIVER/lib

macOS:

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:THE_PATH_OF_CLIDRIVER/lib

Using a non-root account for dmidecode (only if you have a license)¶

In Linux, to use a license it's neccesary to allow a non-root account for dmidecode.

By default, the dmidecode command can only be run on Unix systems using the root user account.

Using a standard user account will display the following error

/dev/mem: Permission denied

To allow a non-root account to execute the dmidecode application the following steps must be completed.

• Select an existing account, or create a new dedicated user account on the Unix systems.
• Open the sudoers configuration file - typically /etc/sudoers.
• Add the following settings to the sudoers file

User_Alias DIXERLIC = YOUR_USERNAME
Cmnd_Alias DMIDECODE = /usr/sbin/dmidecode
DIXERLIC ALL = NOPASSWD: DMIDECODE

The non-root user should now be able to execute the dmidecode command without being prompted for a password.