Modes of CLI

wadm supports invocation in 3 different modes. They are:

• Standalone mode — In this mode, you invoke wadm from a command shell, specifying the desired command, options and operands. When the command finishes execution, CLI exits back to the shell. This mode can support both interactive and non-interactive execution of commands. Interactive execution, which is the default, will prompt for the password if password is not already specified in the password file (passed through the --password-file option). Non-interactive execution will result in an error if --password-file option is not specified. For example,

  wadm> create-config --user=admin --password-file=./admin.pwd --http-port=2222 --server-name=syrinx myconfig

• Shell Mode — In this mode, you invoke wadm from a command shell with no command. wadm prompts the user for a command. After the command is executed, it will return back to the shell. This shell can be exited by typing exit or quit command. Interactive and non-interactive executions are applicable to this mode. For example,

  wadm -user=admin -host=serverhost --password-file=admin.pwd --port=8989

• File Mode — In this mode, you can add a list of commands in a file and pass the file as an argument to wadm. For example,

  wadm -user=admin -host=serverhost --password-file=admin.pwd --port=8989 -commands-file=/space/scripts/admscr

The figure below depicts the syntax for invoking wadm commands.

With the wadm CLI, you can perform all of tasks that you can do with the Administration Console.