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To start the CLI, enter dsmadmc at the operating system prompt. You will be
prompted for an administrative ID and password. Without authentication, you
cannot log on to the Tivoli Storage Manager server. Example 10-5 shows the
start of an administrative client session on AIX.
Obviously, the client can only connect to the Tivoli Storage Manager server if the
server instance is actually running.
Example 10-5 Dsmadmc command-line client
root@Atlantic /: dsmadmc
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 5, Release 3, Level 2.0
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2005. All Rights Reserved.
Enter your user id: admin
Enter your password:
Session established with server ATLANTIC: AIX-RS/6000
Server Version 5, Release 3, Level 2.2
Server date/time: 02/21/2006 14:40:06 Last access: 02/21/2006 14:24:23
tsm: ATLANTIC>
You then type administrative Tivoli Storage Manager commands at the prompt
tsm: SERVERNAME>. Once an administrative command is executed, you always
return back to the tsm: SERVERNAME> prompt. This interactive method is also
loop
called
mode. If you use the interactive mode, you do not have to re-enter
your password with each command.
Another way to start a CLI session is the so-called
dsmadmc together with the administrative ID, the password, and the actual
command that you want to execute. In this mode, the administrative client
processes the command and returns to the operating system prompt.
To get help from the CLI prompt, type help xxx, where xxx is blank, a command,
or a Tivoli Storage Manager message number.
As well as providing an interface for executing commands, the CLI offers two
other modes that are used for monitoring purposes only. You cannot enter
administrative commands while in either of these two modes. These modes are:
Console mode:
When dsmadmc is run with the -consolemode argument (see
Example 10-6 on page 322) after authentication, all activity log messages are
displayed as they are generated. In this mode, you can watch the status of
your server instance without having to search the activity log interactively.
batch
mode. You simply type
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