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B-5
User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor
OL-11291-01
Appendix B IPM Command Reference
ipm loadcoll filename Loads the specified collector seed file into the IPM database.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm loadsrc filename Loads the specified source seed file into the IPM database.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm loadtarg filename Loads the specified target seed file into the IPM database.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm logger
Displays the ipmLogger.log.x file page-by-page.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm mirror
[source | target | collector]
Exports IPM device or collector data in seed file format.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm mirror all
(Solaris only) Exports IPM device data for sources, targets, and collectors in seed file format
and creates a tar file of all components in a file named /tmp/ipm.mirror.host_name.tar.
(Windows only) Exports IPM device data for sources, targets, and collectors in seed file format
and creates three files named Source.txt, Target.txt and Collector.txt, stored in a temporary
directory. To find the temporary directory, IPM first looks at the TMP environment variable. If
TMP is not defined, IPM looks at the TEMP variable. If TEMP is also not defined, IPM places
the three files in the current directory.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm password
Allows you to change existing IPM administrative passwords.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
ipm pmstatus hostname Displays the Process Management Information window and connects to the IPM servers on the
local host or on hostname. The Process Management Information window displays status
information about the IPM processes and provides options for starting or stopping a process, or
for viewing more detailed information about a process.
If you Telnet into a remote workstation and you do not set the DISPLAY variable to local
display, you cannot use this command. See Setting the DISPLAY Variable in Solaris for details.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm readme
Displays the contents of the README file for IPM.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm regen
Regenerates all IPM daily, weekly and monthly HTML reports. A maximum of latest 90 daily
reports will be regenerated. However, there is no limit to the weekly & monthly reports (if any
data exists) generated by IPM.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
ipm restart
Restarts all IPM servers on the local host.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
ipm restart db
Restarts the IPM database on the local host.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
You can use this command only on a Solaris machine.
Table B-1 IPM Commands (continued)
Command Description