HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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 5.3 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
and Windows, and 8 for Linux systems. The CLI XML usage manpage section number is 4 for all operating
systems.
Available manpagesFunctionalityCommand
mcompile(1M, 8)Compiles an SNMP MIB file into an
intermediate format configuration (CFG)
file for importing into HP SIM using the
mxmib command.
mcompile
mxagentconfig(1M, 8)Configures Secure Shell (SSH) on a
managed system by copying the Central
Management Server public key to a user's
SSH key directory and then appending that
key to the authenticated keys file. The user
must be a valid SSH user on the managed
system before running this command.
mxagentconfig
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