HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Command Line Interface Guide

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 node group authorizations. Auto Update enables you to configure
authorizations that can be automatically updated (systems added or removed from the
associated node 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 node 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
node 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 node 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.
XML file support
The mxauth command enables you to add or remove authorizations by specifying an XML file
containing a list of authorizations. See the Examples section and the mxauth(4) manpage for
more information.
XML input files are processed in three passes:
1. The first pass attempts to parse the XML file and generate a list of authorizations to process.
This pass ensures that the XML file is formatted correctly, and the authorization objects contain
syntactically valid information.
If an error is detected, the process is interrupted, an error is generated, and the Systems Insight
Manager database is not changed.
2. During the second pass, mxauth tries to resolve the components in each authorization to
objects in the database. If the command encounters a logic error, such as a nonexistent user,
toolbox, node, or node group, the process is interrupted, an error is generated, and the
Systems Insight Manager database is not changed.
3. During the third pass, mxauth performs the requested authorization addition or removal, and
updates the database.
Duplicate and undefined authorizations are ignored during add and remove operations.
Options
-a
mxauth 23