HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Command Line Interface Guide

mxpassword –c
Description
The mxpassword enables you to add, remove, modify, and list the passwords stored for use with HP SIM.
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 HP SIM.
-g
Start the mxpassword GUI.
IMPORTANT: An error might occur if you use -g in a non-graphical environment (such
as a telnet session).
-x key [ =value ]
The key is the name of the password, and the value is the new value of the password in
text format.
-n
Create a new server certificate. HP SIM and the System Management Homepage must not
be running when you run mxpassword with the -n option. All SMH agents that trust HP
SIM must be re-configured after you run mxpassword -n.
-c
Check for the existence of a keystore of passwords stored by HP SIM.
-f filespec
Enter passwords from a file. The file must use the format password1=password...
Return values
MeaningValue
Successful completion.0
An error occurred during operation.>0
Examples
Example 1
To list all the passwords stored by HP SIM, enter mxpassword -l.
Example 1 73