3PAR InForm® OS 2.3.1 CLI Administrator's Manual (320-200180 Rev B, February 2010)

3.2
Introduction
3PAR InForm CLI Administrator’s Manual InForm OS Version 2.3.1
3.3 Stand-alone Commands 3.18
3.4 SSH 3.19
The purpose of this chapter is to explain how to get help from the InForm CLI, and how to
configure environmental variables.
3.1 Introduction
After installing the CLI as described in Chapter 2, Installing the InForm Command Line Interface
and setting up a user account (as described in Chapter 4, Managing User Accounts and
Connections) a CLI connection requires the following information:
■ System name or IP address
■ User name
■ Password
You are prompted as follows when running the CLI:
The example above displays the simplest way to connect to the CLI.
In addition to the method described above, you can also:
■ Use environment variables and global options to customize the CLI (3.2 Global Options and
Environment Variables on page 3.3).
■ Set up a secure connection using SSL (3.2.3 Using SSL on page 3.7).
■ Issue stand-alone CLI commands from a shell prompt in Solaris or Linux, or from a Windows
command prompt (3.3 Stand-alone Commands on page 3.18).
■ Use SSH to encrypt all traffic between the client and server, including passwords (3.4 SSH on
page 3.19).
system:
user:
password: