User's Manual

68 omconfig: Managing Components Using the Instrumentation Service

Use a command of the form omconfig system <command level 3> -? to get a

list of the parameters you must use to execute a particular omconfig system

command. For example, the following commands produce a list of valid

parameters for omconfig system alertaction and omconfig system shutdown:

omconfig system alertaction -?

omconfig system shutdown -?

In the case of the omconfig system alertaction command, you can use various

options to prevent all of the command line interface (CLI) help from

scrolling by before you can read it.

To scroll command output one screen at a time, type:

omconfig system alertaction -? | more

where | more allows you to press the spacebar to see the next screen of the

CLI help output.

To make a file that contains all the help for the omconfig system alertaction -

? command, type:

omconfig system alertaction -? -outa alert.txt

where -outa directs the output of the command to a file called alert.txt.

To read the help for the alertaction command on a Microsoft

Windows

Red Hat

Enterprise Linux

, or SUSE

Linux Enterprise Server operating

system, type:

more alert.txt

omconfig about

Use the omconfig about command to learn the product name and version

number of the systems management application installed on your system.

The following is an example output of the omconfig about command:

For more details about the environment for Server Administrator, type:

omconfig about details=true

Product name : Dell OpenManage Server Administrator

Version : 5.x.x

reserved.

Company : Dell Inc.