HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Command Line Interface Guide

Description
The mxpassword enables you to add, remove, modify, and list the passwords stored for use with
Systems Insight Manager. The passwords are displayed in clear text for readability.
CAUTION: To prevent clear text passwords from being exposed to unintended eyes, close the
command window after executing this command.
Options
-a
Add a new password.
-m
Modify an existing password.
-r
Remove an existing password.
-l
List the passwords stored by Systems Insight Manager.
-g
Start the mxpassword GUI.
IMPORTANT: Starts the MxPassword GUI. Warning: using this option in a
non-graphical environment (such as a telnet session) might result in unpredictable
error.
-c
Checks for existence of Keystore.
-n
Creates a new server certificate (2,048-bit).
-s 1024|2048(recommended)|4096
This must be used along with -n option. It is used to specify the user-defined key
size for the SSL server certificate. The applicable key sizes are 1,024, 2,048 and
4,096 bits. 1,024-bit key size is considered as obsolete, and it is available only
to handle backward compatibility cases.
-x key [ =value ]
The key is the name of the password, and the value is the new value of the password
in text format.
Return values
MeaningValue
Successful completion.0
An error occurred during operation.>0
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