Administration

If you are logged in as a user with insufficient privileges, you can use the -b option to run the command
as a user who has been assigned the Administrators role, if you know that user's password. You can
specify the -b option to run the vdmadmin command as the specified user in the specified domain. The
following usage forms of the -b option are equivalent.
-b username domain [password | *]
-b username@domain [password | *]
-b domain\username [password | *]
If you specify an asterisk (*) instead a password, you are prompted to enter the password, and the
vdmadmin command does not leave sensitive passwords in the command history on the command line.
You can use the -b option with all command options except the -R and -T options.
vdmadmin Command Output Format
Some vdmadmin command options allow you to specify the format of the output information.
Table 12‑1 shows the options that some vdmadmin command options provide for formatting output text.
Table 12‑1. Options for Selecting Output Format
Option Description
-csv
Formats the output as comma-separated values.
-n
Display the output using ASCII (UTF-8) characters. This is the
default character set for comma-separated values and plain text
output.
-w
Display the output using Unicode (UTF-16) characters. This is
the default character set for XML output.
-xml
Formats the output as XML.
vdmadmin Command Options
You use the command options of the vdmadmin command to specify the operation that you want it to
perform.
Table 12‑2 shows the command options that you can use with the vdmadmin command to control and
examine the operation of View.
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