APC Command Line Interface Manual Do Utilizador

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Contents

Command Line Interface (CLI) User’s Guide

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Product Capabilities..........................1

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

PDU features not supported by the CLI . . . 1

Integration with APC Rack KVM products . . 1

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Firmware version required . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Rack PDUs required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Exporting an .ini File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Using the Commands .......................3

How to Enter CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Capitalization in commands and arguments 3

Editing in the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Space character as command delimiter 3

Quotation marks and the reverse slant . . . 3

Command Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

CLI Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Logging On and Off .........................5

Logging On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

User Name and Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Log-on procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Responses to successful and failed log-on . 5

Logging Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Log-off procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Automatic log-off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Command Syntax .............................7

Characters and Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Syntax Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Italic text with no brackets or braces. . . . . . 8

Braces and vertical line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Brackets and ellipses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Large braces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8