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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 called loop 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 batch mode. You simply type 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. Chapter 10. Administrative client 321
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