Other Tips For Best Results - Sun Microsystems Fire V20z Management Manual

To suppress headings, use the -H argument.
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Data for each column is left-aligned with at least one space between columns.
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Numeric data is right-aligned.
The -D argument allows you to specify a delimiter character when scripting. This
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is very useful in parsing fields with white space.
If all lines have the same number and type of data values, each row is printed to
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a separate line so variable data can be parsed easily. For example, executing
access get users -g monitor returns a list of monitor users each on a
separate line.
Commands that return multiple columns (such as inventory get hardware)
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may have a minimal default set of columns and a --verbose argument to
display all columns. Some commands include arguments that allow you to select
specific columns to output.

Other Tips For Best Results

Externalize the set of SP IP addresses into a file to be shared across all of your
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scripts.
Consider using a script to create the initial manager account and upload its public
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key on your SPs.
Test the output and return codes of each command manually by using SSH to log
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in to the SP and run the commands individually.
Test your scripts on a single staging machine before applying them to your
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remaining machines.
To configure all of your SPs identically, consider configuring a single SP and then
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using the sp load settings command to synchronize that configuration on
the remaining machines.
Note – If running the script from the SP, there is a limited number of commands
(not a full Bash environment).
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