HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Command Line Interface Guide

its context from the database. The CMS itself and non-empty container systems cannot be
removed.
• During the removal process, the system is removed from all system groups and all authorizations
(see mxauth(1M)) for the system are removed.
• It is not an error to remove a system from the database while a task is running on the system.
Systems Insight Manager does not terminate the task on the system; task results and status are
sent to Systems Insight Manager when the task is complete.
Listing systems
mxnode -ln [ systemname(s) ]
mxnode -ld [ systemname(s) ] []
mxnode -lt [ systemname(s) ]
mxnode -lf [ systemname(s) ] [-b encoding ]
mxnode -lmpo [-b encoding ]
• The -l* forms of this command allow you to list system information.
• Specifying no options with this command provides a list of system names with no other
information. This listing is the same as -ln.
• -ld provides a detailed screen-viewable list of systems.
• -lt provides a tabular listing of systems with detailed information.
• -lmpo lists the names of systems that may have one or more associated management path
objects (MPOs, also known as Management Paths or CIMOMs).
Two types of MPOs may or may not exist on a system. One type of MPO is a Management
Agent (MAO), and defines an actual Agent residing on the system. The other MPO type is a
Management Route (MRO), which specifies the routing information to an associated MAO,
which may reside on this system or another system. One or more MPOs can reside on a
system.
• -lf provides an XML list of systems.
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.
Modifying systems
mxnode -m [-p] -f filename [-w] [-v]
• The -m -f option enables you to modify the attributes of an existing system in the database.
• This option requires the system name rather than the hostname or IP address (mxnode can
look up the system name if the hostname or IP address is provided in XML input).
• The system attributes to be modified for a particular system must reside within a specified
mxnode XML file.
NOTE: See mxnode(4) for additional information about using XML input files with mxnode.
Predefined system attributes/properties
The following is the complete list of system attributes that are predefined and recognized by Systems
Insight Manager. Invoking mxnode with -ld or -lf on an existing system displays the current
values for some or all of the attributes in the following list:
• System name . The system name is, by default, the same as the hostname, if a hostname
exists. If the hostname does not exist, the system name defaults to the IP address. The system
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