HP Fabric Clustering System HP-UX Administrator's Guide, March 2008

To change your user identity:
1. Enter the user-execute or privileged-execute mode.
2. Enter the login command with the name of a system user.
HP-IB# login admin
3. Enter the user password.
After you enter the password, you are logged in as the specified user in the user-execute mode.
Password: xxxxx
HP-IB>
Notifying Users
User notification commands send text messages to the terminal screens of all CLI users or to
individual users. These are convenient utilities for notifying everyone of an impending reboot
or to notify single users about special issues that apply only to them.
Broadcasting Messages to Users
Message broadcasting is an important feature to forewarn all CLI users that some major event
is about to take place, such as bringing down a network for administration. A broadcast message
is sent to every active CLI session on the system chassis.
Enclose multi-word messages within double-quotes. Single-word messages do not require
double-quotes. Only the unrestricted user may broadcast messages.
HP-IB# broadcast “message”
Syntax
The message identifies the sender, followed by the message text.
For example, if you send this:
HP-IB# broadcast "Switch going down in 10 minutes."
everyone, including the user who sent the message, receives this:
HP-IB#
Broadcast message from super
Switch going down in 10 minutes.
Sending Messages to Individual Users
The write command is used to send a message to a single user. Check that the user is logged
in before attempting to write to their terminal. Use theshow user user_name command to
verify the user is logged in.
HP-IB> show user anonymous
======================================================================
User Information
======================================================================
username : anonymous
access-level : readwrite
admin-status : enabled
status : active
num-logins : 1
num-unsuccessful-logins : 6
last-login : Thu Oct 10 09:13:10 2002
last-unsuccessful-login : Thu Oct 10 09:12:32 2002
HP-IB> write waldo "Connection to FC array 15 is now working."
HP-IB>
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