Novell SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 HEARTBEAT Manual page 73

Description
The cibadmin command is the low-level administrative command for manipulating
the Heartbeat CIB. Use it to dump all or part of the CIB, update all or part of it, modify
all or part of it, delete the entire CIB, or perform miscellaneous CIB administrative
operations.
cibadmin operates on the XML trees of the CIB, largely without knowledge of the
meaning of the updates or queries performed. This means that shortcuts that seem nat-
ural to humans who understand the meaning of the elements in the XML tree are impos-
sible to use with cibadmin. It requires a complete lack of ambiguity and can only
deal with valid XML subtrees (tags and elements) for both input and output.
NOTE
cibadmin should always be used in preference to editing the cib.xml file
by hand—especially if the cluster is active. The cluster goes to great lengths to
detect and discourage this practice so that your data is not lost or corrupted.
Options
--id xml-object-id, -i xml-object-id
Specify the XML ID of the XML object on which to operate.
NOTE
This option is deprecated and may be removed in future versions of
cibadmin.
--obj_type object-type, -o object-type
Specify the type of object on which to operate. Valid values are nodes,
resources, status, and constraints.
--verbose, -V
Turn on debug mode. Additional -V options increase the verbosity of the output.
--help, -?
Obtain a help message from cibadmin.
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