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Quantum DXi-Series Command Line Interface (CLI) Guide
6-67081-09 Rev B
February 2014
Introduction 1
Introduction
The Command Line Interface (CLI) for DXi™-Series systems serves as a command
line equivalent of the remote management functionality. This guide describes
the CLI commands for DXi 2.3 Software, which is available for the following
systems:
• DXi V-Series (DXi V1000 virtual appliance)
• DXi4000 Family
• DXi6000 Family
• DXi8500
Not all CLI commands are available for all DXi-Series systems, as noted below in
the sections describing the CLI commands.
Note: Before you can login to the CLI User account, you must change the
password on the Security page of the remote management console.
Passwords are limited to 15 characters. Alphanumeric characters and
special characters are allowed. For more information, see your DXi
system’s User’s Guide .
Note: For more information about concepts and terms used in this guide, see
the “System Description” chapter and the glossary of terms in your DXi
system’s
User’s Guide
.
CLI Users
There are two local CLI user accounts to support the command line interface: a
CLI admin user and a CLI viewer user. They are defined as cliadmin (CLI
Administrator Account) and cliviewer (CLI Monitor Account), respectively. The
passwords are the same as the CLI user names. The CLI users can also be enabled
or disabled from the Security configuration page. By default, the two CLI user
accounts are enabled.
The two CLI users use the SSH capability to log in to the DXi™ system. Both are
confined to a restricted shell for security purposes. Only certain commands are
allowed to run in the restricted shell. The CLI command ( syscli ) is available for
both CLI users. In addition, a limited number of shell commands are available to
both CLI users to support scripting such as cat , cp , date , ftp , grep , head , less ,
ll , ls , mv , rm , scp , syscli , tail , vi , and wbinfo . These commands are restricted so
that they only work on files in the CLI user’s home directory (see Available Linux
Commands on page 2).
The cliviewer user has the ability to view or retrieve information and is not
allowed to add, change, or delete any information. The cliadmin user has the
same ability as cliviewer and in addition, has the privilege to add, change, or
delete information. If the cliviewer user attempts to run any intrusive command