HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Command Line Interface reference guide

Remotely using an SSH client
NOTE: The preferred way to log in remotely is to use an SSH client. Telnet and rlogin work, but neither
provides a secure connection.
1. Open an SSH client application on any network client.
2. Log in to the CMS through the SSH client software, using a valid user name and password.
HP SIM grants authorizations based on your OS login.
Entering commands
Application requirement
Most of the commands in the CLI work only when HP SIM is running. The following CLI commands are
exceptions to this rule, and can be invoked when HP SIM is not running.
• mxgethostname
• mxinitconfig
• mxpassword
• mxversion
• mxgetdbinfo
• mxoracleconfig
Permissions
On an HP-UX or Linux CMS, you can log in to the OS as any valid HP SIM user and use the CLI (complete
CLI functionality is available only to users with full configuration rights or limited configuration rights on the
CMS). On a Windows CMS, the following commands require that the user be a member of the local
Administrators group:
• mcompile
• mxagentconfig
• mxauth
• mxcert
• mxcollection
• mxexec
• mxglobalprotocolsettings
• mxglobalsettings
• mxlog
• mxmib
• mxngroup
• mxnode
• mxnodesecurity
• mxquery
• mxreport
• mxstm
• mxtask
• mxtool
• mxtoolbox
14 About the HP SIM Command Line Interface