Working with Remote Management: Dell Command Line Interface User's Guide
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Working with Remote Management: Dell™ Command Line Interface User's Guide
| Understanding Remote Management Attributes |
• Scanning for Remote Management Services Agents |
• Adding Information to the Remote Connection Database |
• Locking Information in the Network Connection Database |
• Unlocking Information in the Network Connection Database |
• Deleting Information from the Network Connection Database |
This chapter explains how to use the CLI to locate and open a controller on another computer. Once you open a controller remotely, you can perform controller, container, and disk operations in the same manner as a controller opened on your local computer.
Note:
The remote management software provides security features to
prevent unauthorized management of controllers from the network. See
the Flexible Array Storage Tool User's Guide for information on
administering security for remote management of controllers.
Understanding Remote Management Attributes
The remote management attributes are the characteristics of remote management that you can display or administer using the CLI. Table 1 lists the remote management attributes and their related CLI commands.
Table 1. Remote Management Attributes
The following sections describe how to display the remote management attributes.
Displaying the Lock Status
The lock status attribute indicates whether a remote computer's connection record, which contains connection information, is locked or unlocked in the network connection database. The network connection database contains connection information for remote computers that are running the Remote Management Services Agent (network services software).
To display whether a computer's connection information is locked or unlocked in the network connection database, use the remote list command, as in the following example. In the example, the Lock Status column indicates U, which means that the connection record in the network connection database for the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG computer is unlocked.
See Locking Information in the Network Connection Database for information on how to lock a computer's connection record. See Unlocking Information in the Network Connection Database for information on how to unlock a computer's connection record.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
The following hosts are offering Remote Services.
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
Displaying the Computer Name
The computer name attribute indicates the domain and name of a computer that is running the RSMA and whose connection record resides in the network connection database.
To display the name of all computers in a domain that are running the Remote Management Services Agent (network services software) and whose connection record resides in the network connection database, use the remote list command, as in the following example. In the example, the Computer column indicates \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG, which means that the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG computer is running the Remote Management Services Agent and its connection record resides in the network connection database.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
The following hosts are offering Remote Services.
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
Displaying the Remote User Name
The remote user name attribute indicates the name of a user who is accessing a controller on a remote computer. To display the names of users accessing a controller on a remote computer, use the remote users command, as in the following example. In the example, the remote users command displays a list of users who are accessing the AFA0 controller on the yeti computer. The jsmith@BULLDOG item indicates that remote user jsmith on the BULLDOG computer is accessing the \\yeti\AFA0 controller.
AFA0> remote users \\yeti\AFA0
Executing: remote users "\\yeti\AFA0"
jsmith@BULLDOG read write
Displaying the Remote User Access Mode
The remote user access mode attribute indicates the access mode with which a remote user opens a controller. To display the access mode of users accessing a controller on a remote computer, use the remote users command, as in the following example. In the example, the remote users command displays a list of users who are accessing the AFA0 controller on the yeti computer. The read write item indicates that remote user jsmith@BULLDOG opened the \\yeti\AFA0 controller using read-write mode.
AFA0> remote users \\yeti\AFA0
Executing: remote users "\\yeti\AFA0"
jsmith@BULLDOG read write
Scanning for Remote Management Services Agents
The CLI's remote scan command allows you to search a domain for computers running the Remote Management Services Agent (network services software). This command adds a record in the network connection database for each computer running the Remote Management Services Agent.
The remote scan command also checks the records for computers currently in the network connection database that are not still running the Remote Management Services Agent. The command removes these records from the network connection database. If you previously locked a computer's connection record with the remote lock command, the remote scan command does not remove the record from the network connection database even if the associated computer is not currently running the Remote Management Services Agent.
Before scanning a domain, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that are running the Remote Management Services Agent and have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the remote list command displays a list of computers running the Remote Management Services Agent in the tigernet domain.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
To scan a domain for computers running the Remote Management Services Agent, use the remote scan command, as in the following example. In the example, the remote scan command searches for computers running the Remote Management Services Agent in the tigernet domain.
AFA0> remote scan tigernet
Executing: remote scan "tigernet"
After executing the remote scan command, use the remote list command to display a list of computers running the Remote Management Services Agent in the tigernet domain, as in the following example. In the example, the Computer column indicates a list of computers including \\\TIGERNET\\SAMPSON, which means that the remote scan command found the newly added \\\TIGERNET\\SAMPSON computer in the network connection database.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
L \\\TIGERNET\\SAMPSON
Adding Information to the Remote Connection Database
The CLI's remote add command allows you to add a record with a computer's connection information to the network connection database.
The CLI automatically locks a computer's connection record that is added to the network connection database with the remote add command. Locking a computer's record prevents the remote scan command from removing manually added computers. See Locking Information in the Network Connection Database for further information on locking records in the network connection database.
Before adding a connection record to the network connection database, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the remote list command displays a list of computers in the tigernet domain that have a connection record in the network connection database.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
To add the connection record for a computer to the network connection database, use the remote add command, as in the following example. In the example, the remote add command adds a connection record to the network connection database for the host werewolf.go.movies.com using the TCPIP network protocol. The default domain is tigernet.
AFA0> remote add werewolf.go.movies.com TCPIP
Executing: remote add "werewolf.go.movies.com" "TCPIP"
After executing the remote add command, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the Computer column indicates \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF, which means that a connection record for \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF has been added to the network connection database.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
L \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF
Locking Information in the Network Connection Database
The CLI's remote lock command allows you to lock a computer's or NetWareTM server's connection record in the network connection database. Locking a connection record prevents the remote scan command from deleting the computer's connection record from the network connection database.
Before locking a computer's connection record, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the Lock Status column indicates U next to the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG item, which means that the connection record for the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG computer is unlocked.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
L \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF
To lock a computer's connection record in the network connection database, use the remote lock command, as in the following example. In the example, the remote lock command locks the connection record in the network connection database for the computer BULLDOG.
AFA0> remote lock \\BULLDOG
Executing: remote lock "\\BULLDOG"
After executing the remote lock command, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the Lock Status column indicates L next to the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG item, which means that the connection record in the network connection database for \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG is locked.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
L \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
L \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF
Unlocking Information in the Network Connection Database
The CLI's remote unlock command allows you to unlock a computer's or NetWareTM server's connection record in the network connection database. Unlocking a connection record allows the remote scan command to delete the computer's connection record from the network connection database.
Before unlocking a computer's connection record in the network connection database, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the Lock Status column indicates L next to the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG item, which means that the connection record for the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG computer is locked.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
L \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
L \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF
To unlock a computer's record in the network connection database, use the remote unlock command, as in the following example. In the example, the remote unlock command unlocks the connection record in the network connection database for the computer BULLDOG.
AFA0>remote unlock \\BULLDOG
Executing: remote unlock "\\BULLDOG"
After executing the remote unlock command, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the Lock Status column indicates U next to the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG item, which means that the connection record in the network connection database for \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG is unlocked.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
L \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF
Deleting Information from the Network Connection Database
The CLI's remote delete command allows you to delete a computer's or NetWareTM server's connection record from the network connection database. The remote delete command deletes the connection record even if it is locked.
Before deleting a computer's or NetWare server's connection record from the network connection database, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the Computer column indicates that the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG computer's connection record is in the network connection database.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
The following hosts are offering Remote Services.
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
U \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF
To delete a computer's or NetWareTM server's connection record in the network connection database, use the remote delete command, as in the following example. In the example, the remote delete command deletes the connection record for the BULLDOG computer.
AFA0> remote delete \\BULLDOG
Executing: remote delete "\\BULLDOG"
After executing the remote delete command, use the remote list command to display a list of computers that have a connection record in the network connection database, as in the following example. In the example, the entry for \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG has been removed from the list, which means that the connection record for the \\\TIGERNET\\BULLDOG computer has been deleted from the network connection database.
AFA0> remote list tigernet
Executing: remote list "tigernet"
The following hosts are offering Remote Services.
Lock Status Computer
------------ --------------------------
U \\\TIGERNET\\GOLIATH
L \\\TIGERNET\\OAK
U \\\TIGERNET\\SUPREME
U \\\TIGERNET\\WEREWOLF
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