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You must run the vdmadmin command as a user who is in the Administrators role for a specified action
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Some vdmadmin command options allow you to specify the format of the output information.
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You use the command options of the vdmadmin command to specify the operation that you want it to
perform.
vdmadmin Command Authentication
You must run the vdmadmin command as a user who is in the Administrators role for a specified action to
succeed.
You
can use View Administrator to assign the Administrators role to a user. See Chapter 2, “Configuring Role-
Based Delegated Administration,” on page 23.
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. 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 16-1 shows the options that some vdmadmin command options provide for formatting output text.
Table 16-1. 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 16-2 shows the command options that you can use with the vdmadmin command to control and examine
the operation of View Manager.
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