Accessing the administrative command-line interface

This topic describes how to bring up the administrative command-line interface.

Prerequisites

SAN File System provides a wizard to step you through the process of creating a FlashCopy image.

You must have Administrator, Operator, or Backup privileges to perform this task.

Steps

  1. Log in directly to the engine, or from another workstation through SSH, using the local operating system authentication mechanism.
  2. Log in to the administrative server on the engine using the same administrative user ID and password that you would use to log into the SAN File System console. You can specify the password in one of two ways:
    • Set the password in the sclif.properties file, located in your home directory on the engine (for example, joe/sclif.properties), to your valid LDAP password using the tankpasswd utility.
    • Set the SFS_CLI_PASSWDFILE environment variable to the location of the password file.
  3. Enter the sfscli command to start the administrative command-line interface, or sfscli session, to run commands in interactive mode.

Parent topic: Accessing the administrative interfaces

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