Brocade Secure Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v3.2.0, v4.4.0, v5.0.1, v5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 (53-1000244-02, June 2007)

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HELP WITH COMMAND LINE USEAGE OF PKI CERTIFICATE UTILITY

pkicert [-gGil] [_e log-file] [-d data-file] [-a addr-file] [-A switch-addr]

[-L log-level] [-u user-login -p password]

Task Options:

-g Get CSRs & generate a CSR data file

-G Get CSRs (even from switches with certificates)

-i Install Certificates from a data file

-l Licensed Product Report compile & generate

If none of the above “task” options is given, Pki-Cert will operate in

“Interactive” rather than “Batch” mode.

Other OPtions:

Log-file: -e (events/errors log)

Path/file-name of log file created and written to (or if it already exists,

apprended to ) with event/error data

Data-file: -d

Path/file-name of input or output file

* If the task is “Get-CSRs” or “License Rpt”, the file is an output file

created and written to with CSR or License report data.

* If the task is “Install Certificates”, dat is read from it.

Address-file: -a addr-file

“addr-file” is the path/file-name of optional input file containing IP

addresses or aliases of fabrics to which sessions should be established. If

this argument is not provided, this data is read from the file indicated by

environment variable ‘FABRIC_CONFIG_FILE’ if defined. Use Microsoft Notepad to

create the addr-file.

Address--IP: -A

IP address of switch/fabric with which to connect for the given task.

Log-Level: -L

Level of information to write to the event log file:

0 = Silent, 1 = Errors, 2 = Events + Errors, 3 = Debug-info +Events + ...

2. To end help, press Enter.

User Login: -u

User name or account login for switch given with _A option or for use as

default for all switches given.

Password: -p

Password must accompany “-u UserLogin” if provided. It must be more than 5

characters.

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