Prerequisite; Syntax Of The Sdm Command; Starting The Sdm Gui; Saving Connection Properties For Sentinel Data Manager - Novell SENTINEL RAPID DEPLOYMENT 6.1 - 12-2009 User Manual

Section 11.3.6, "Dropping Partitions," on page 278
Section 11.3.7, "Viewing Partition Summaries," on page 279
Section 11.3.8, "Archiving Data," on page 280
Section 11.3.9, "Importing Data," on page 281
Section 11.3.10, "Deleting Imported Data," on page 282
Section 11.3.11, "Viewing Sentinel Database Space Usage," on page 283

11.3.1 Prerequisite

The first step to using the SDM command line is to create a file that stores the connection properties
for the database.

11.3.2 Syntax of the SDM command

[path to SDM] –action [actionname] [action-specific flags] [path to database
connection file]
The specific flags for each action are described below.

11.3.3 Starting the SDM GUI

startGui (DEFAULT)
-action startGui [-connectFile <filePath>]

11.3.4 Saving Connection Properties for Sentinel Data Manager

The
saveConnection
connection details are necessary for all other SDM command line operations.
If you run the SDM GUI with Save connection settings selected, the
not necessary. You can use the
The
saveConnection
Table 11-2
Command
-action
-server
-host
-port
-database
-driverProps
-dbuser
-password
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command saves the database connection details to a specified file. These
sdm.connect
command uses the following flags:
saveConnection command Flags
Command Flags
saveConnection
<postgresql>
<database host IP Address or host name to connect to>
<database port number to connect to >
<database name/SID>
<Properties File>
<database username>
<database password>
saveConnection
file located in
<Install_directory>/sdm
command is
.