HP Systems Insight Manager 6.0 Command Line Interface Guide

1 About the HP SIM command line interface
Introduction
HP SIM provides a command line interface (CLI) in addition to the graphical user interface (GUI). Many
functions available in the GUI are also available in the CLI.
Commands
HP SIM commands are installed in the following locations on the central management server (CMS):
• HP-UX and Linux: /opt/mx/bin/
• Windows: C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\bin\
NOTE: The Windows path varies if HP SIM is not installed in the default location.
manpages (manual pages)
Viewing manpages on UNIX systems
You can use the man utility on HP-UX and Linux systems to format and display CLI command line usage
manpages. Use the following format to specify a manpage to view: # man [ sectionNumber ]
ManpageName .
HP-UX
• CLI command line usage manpages are specified as section 1M.
• CLI Extensible Markup Language (XML) usage manpages are specified as section 4.
Examples: To view the command line or XML usage for mxtask, enter one of the following:
• # man mxtask displays the command line usage for mxtask.
• # man 1m mxtask displays the command line usage for mxtask.
• # man 4 mxtask displays the XML usage for mxtask.
Linux
• CLI command line usage manpages are specified as section 8.
• CLI XML usage manpages are specified as section 4.
Examples: To view the command line or XML usage for mxtask, enter one of the following:
• # man mxtask displays the command line usage for mxtask.
• # man 8 mxtask displays the command line usage for mxtask.
• # man 4 mxtask displays the XML usage for mxtask.
Viewing manpages on Windows operating systems
The HP SIM Windows manpages are available in the following folder: HP\Systems Insight
Manager\hpwebadmin\webapps\mxhelp\mxportal\en\man. Double-click a manpage file to view
the contents in a web browser.
Command list
The following table lists the HP SIM CLI commands. For more details about each command, see Command
descriptions or the manpage for each command.
NOTE: The manpage section numbers for CLI command line usage manpages are different for each
operating system. The CLI command line usage manpage section number is 1M for HP-UX and Windows
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