HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Command Line Interface Guide

Asterisks are supported for the groupname parameter. Systems Insight Manager recognizes
the asterisk as a wildcard character to indicate adding the system group authorization for all
currently configured system groups. When using the wildcard character on the command line,
enclose it in quotation marks to prevent the shell interpreter from preprocessing it.
• mxauth -a|r -f filename
This command enables full rights users to add or remove multiple authorizations by specifying
an input file containing system and system group authorizations. The file must be formatted
in the required XML format. See XML file support, Examples, and the mxauth(4)manpage
for more information.
• mxauth [-l t]
This command lists information about one or more authorizations in simple or tabular format.
When you run mxauth with no options, the output lists all authorization names in simple form
with the authorization fields separated by colons (:).
system authorizations for both Users and UserGroups are listed in the following format. Any
User Group authorizations are prefixed with “U:”.
user:toolboxname:n:nodename
U:usergroupname:toolboxname:n:nodename
system group authorizations for both Users and User Groups are listed in the following format.
Any User Group authorizations are prefixed with “U:”.
user:toolboxname:g:groupname
U:usergroupname:toolboxname:g:nodegroupname
When you use -l t, mxauth lists all authorizations in a table with column headings identifying
each field.
For Systems Insight Manager 5.1 and later, the enabled/disabled state of the Auto Update
feature is displayed for system group authorizations. Auto Update enables you to configure
authorizations that can be automatically updated (systems added or removed from the
associated system group list) in the background at a configurable interval, for example, every
five minutes.
In the simple listing format, the Auto Update state for a system group authorization is appended
and appears as :Auto if Auto Update is enabled, or :Manual if you must manually click
the Update button to update an authorization. For example:
user:toolboxname:g:groupname:Auto
user:toolboxname:g:groupname:Manual
U:usergroupname:toolboxname:g:nodegroupname:Auto
U:usergroupname:toolboxname:g:nodegroupname:Manual
In the tabular listing format, a new AUTO column is included. The Auto Update state for a
system group authorization is Auto if Auto Update is enabled. If Auto Update is disabled,
the column is blank.
NOTE: This command displays the current Auto Update state for system group authorizations,
but you cannot use it to change or set the Auto Update state. Use mxngroup to set the Auto
Update state.
• mxauth -l f [-b encoding]
This command outputs authorization information to an XML file.
Optionally, you can specify the character encoding of the XML file. The value for the character
encoding must match a valid character encoding. If no encoding is specified, the system
attempts to write the file in the encoding currently defined on the system. See http://
www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets for the list of valid character sets.
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