LDAP-UX Client Services B.05.01 Administrator Guide for HP directory servers and Windows ADS

9.3.8.2 Options and arguments
The ldaphostmgr tool supports the following options and arguments:
-a Adds a new host to the directory server. The host is added to the
base specified by the host service search descriptor in the LDAP-UX
configuration profile entry (unless the -D option is used to specify
the fully qualified DN). When an entry is created, the device and
ipHost object classes are used. Optionally, additional object classes
can be used to describe the host entry. For more information about
object classes, see Section 9.3.8.3 (page 337).
On ADS, the Computer object class is used.
The -a (add), -d (delete), and -m (modify) options are mutually
exclusive. The -m option is the default if none of these three options
is specified.
-m Modifies an existing host entry. The -a (add), -d (delete), and -m
(modify) options are mutually exclusive. The -m option is the default
if none of these three options is specified.
-d Deletes a host entry. This removes the specified host entry from the
directory server, and removes the host as a member from any group
that contains this host as a member. The -a (add), -d (delete), and
-m (modify) options are mutually exclusive. The -m option is the
default if none of these three options is specified.
-F Forces creation of a new host entry even if the following error
conditions occur:
• Setting the owner of a host to an owner that does not exist. If
the -O option specified a DN, then that DN is used as the
owner. If a user or group is specified, then the owner is set to
the DN of the user identity used by ldaphostmgr when
performing the command. In this case, if the current user identity
is already marked as an owner of the host, a MODIFY_FAILED
error is returned.
• Creating or changing the key for the specified remote host,
even if the identity of the remote host could not be verified.
This usage is not recommended since the key loaded into the
directory server cannot be trusted.
The -F option does not override any enforcement that occurs on
the directory server itself, such as adding an attribute without also
adding a corresponding required object class or modifying an
attribute for which the user does not have sufficient directory
privilege.
-I Adds/modifies additional information about the host:
entityVersion=$(/usr/bin/uname -sr)
entityModel=$(/usr/bin/model)
On ADS, instead of entityVersion, the operatingSystem
and operatingSystemVersion attributes are used.
entityModel is not defined in an ADS environment.
Note that if an -I option is specified and the host being managed
is remote, a remote login to that host is required and performed by
ldaphostmgr to discover that information. This means that when
the LDAP credentials are specified (through the prompt or
LDAP_BINDDN), those credentials must also represent a POSIX
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