HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

NOTE: The Windows path varies if HP SIM is not installed in the default location.
See the Infrasctucture management using the HP SIM command line interface white paper at http://
h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html and the HP SIM 5.2 Command
Line Interface Reference Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/
infolibrary.html for more detailed information on CLI commands.
manpages
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 usage or XML usage for the mxtask CLI, enter one of the following:
• % man mxtask displays the command line usage for the mxtask CLI.
• % man 1m mxtask displays the command line usage for the mxtask CLI.
• % man 4 mxtask displays the XML usage for the mxtask CLI.
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 usage or XML usage for the mxtask CLI, enter one of the following:
• # man mxtask displays the command line usage for the mxtask CLI.
• # man 8 mxtask displays the command line usage for the mxtask CLI.
• # man 4 mxtask displays the XML usage for the mxtask CLI.
Viewing manpages on Windows systems
The HP SIM Windows manpages are available in the following folder:
Manager\hpwebadmin\webapps\mxhelp\mxportal\en\man. Double-click a manpage file to view
the contents in a web browser.
Commands
The following table provides a complete list of HP SIM commands. For a detailed explanation of these
commands, click the manpage link to view an associated manpage or see the HP SIM 5.2 Command Line
Interface Reference Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/
infolibrary.html. Use your browser's back button to return to this page.
NOTE: In the following table, 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
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