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User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor
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Appendix B IPM Command Reference
ipm restart name
Restarts the IPM Naming Server 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.
ipm restart pm
Restarts all IPM server processes on the local host except the IPM database, and Naming
Server.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
You can use this command only on a Solaris machine.
ipm seed
hostname filename type
Connects to IPM servers on the local host and starts a seed file configuration process.
• If you are not connecting locally, hostname is the name of the remote host, such as
IPM-Host-1.
• filename is the seed file name, such as srcfile.src. You can specify just the file name, or you
can specify an absolute address (the full path and file name). If you specify only the file
name, IPM looks for the file in the default seed file directory.
filename cannot be a relative address (a partial path name and file name).
• type is the type of seed file: 1 for source, 2 for target, 3 for collector.
The following are valid ipm seed commands:
File Name Only—Solaris
# ./ipm seed IPM-Host-1 srcfile.src 1
Absolute Address—Solaris
# ./ipm seed IPM-Host-1 /opt/CSCOipm/etc/source/srcfile.src 1
File Name Only—Windows
ipm seed IPM-Host-1 srcfile.src 1
Absolute Address—Windows
ipm seed IPM-Host-1 ‘’c:\Program Files\Internetwork Performance
Monitor\Server\etc\source\srcfile.src’’ 1
For more information about seed files, see Adding Components Using Seed Files.
You can use this command if you are a member of the casusers group.
ipm servername
Resets the default server to which to connect.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
ipm start Starts all IPM servers on the local host.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
ipm start aging
(Windows only) Starts the IPM Aging Server on the local host.
You can use this command only if you have administrative privileges.
ipm start client
hostname
Starts an IPM client on the specified host. If no host name is specified, then an IPM client is
started on the local host.
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.
Table B-1 IPM Commands (continued)
Command Description