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Cell Management Tool Reference 5
The cell management tool is a command-line utility that you can use to manage a cell and its SSL certificates,
and to export tables from the vCloud Director database. Superuser or system administrator credentials are
required for some operations.
The cell management tool is installed in /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin/cell-management-tool.
Listing Available Commands
To list the available cell management tool commands, use the following command line.
cell-management-tool -h
Example: Cell Management Tool Usage Help
[root@cell1 /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin]# ./cell-management-tool -h
usage: cell-management-tool
-h,--help print this message
-p,--password <arg> administrator password
-u,--username <arg> administrator username
Available commands:
cell - Manipulates the Cell and core components
dbextract - Exports the data from the given set of tables
certificates - Reconfigures the SSL certificates for the cell
generate-certs - Generates self-signed SSL certificates for use with vCD cell
recover-password - Change a forgotten System Administrator password. Database credentials are
required
For command specific help:
cell-management-tool [...] <commandName> -h
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Commands for Managing a Cell on page 48
Use the cell command of the cell management tool to suspend the task scheduler so that new tasks
cannot be started, to check the status of active tasks, to control cell maintenance mode, and to shut
down the cell gracefully.
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Commands for Exporting Database Tables on page 49
Use the dbextract command of the cell management tool to export data from the vCloud Director
database.
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