SOMDCHK evaluates the environment to verify whether DSOM can operate correctly. The program generates messages that evaluate the DSOM environment. It determines whether the necessary SOM DLLs can be located, whether DSOM is enabled for workgroup (cross-machine) communication, whether Interface and Implementation Repositories can be located, and it displays the settings of important environment variables. In its "verbose" mode, SOMDCHK gives the default settings for DSOM environment variables and explains how DSOM uses them.

The program is invoked from the command line using the syntax given below. The optional verbose setting can be turned on by including the -v option with the following command:

SOMDCHK [-v]