HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Command Line Interface reference guide

-o host|user

Specify whether to configure the managed node with SSH host-based authentication or user

key-based authentication. If this option is not specified, the default is host-based

authentication.

-u login

Enter the user name to enable SSH execution.

-p password

Enter the password of the specified user on the managed node. If the password contains

special characters that the shell might interpret, for example, $ or &, enclose the string in

quotation marks.

-s password

Specify an encoded password used by the CMS internal tools.

-f filespec

Specify an input file. This file can contain a password or a managed node list to configure.

If the file contains a node list, the first line must be MXAGENTCONFIG_NODELIST_FILE.

Enter information for each node on a separate line in the format

nodename,username,password. The nodename is required, but the username and

password can be empty if you want to use the values entered into the command line. For

example, if you enter target1,, the command uses the username and password specified

with the -u and -p options when configuring the node

target1

Return values

MeaningValue

Successful completion.0

Command line syntax error.2

An error occurred during operation.>0

Files

Server:

• /etc/opt/mx/config/sshtools/.dtfSshKey.pub

• /etc/opt/mx/config/sshtools/known_hosts

Managed node:

• ~/.ssh/.<cms_name>.dtfSshKey.pub

• ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2

• ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2.bak

Example

To copy the SSH-generated public key from the CMS to the node

node1

with the username

root

and password

password

, enter mxagentconfig -a -n node1 -u root -p password.