About the Admin Tool

The Service Registry Administration Tool provides a simple command-line interface for common administration tasks, such as adding associations to the Registry and removing objects from the Registry.

The tool can operate in either of two modes:

In keeping with the "files and folders" metaphor used for RegistryObject objects in RegistryPackage objects, several commands, such as ls and rm, mimic both the name and the behavior of well-known UNIX® commands that operate on files and folders. Other commands have no corresponding UNIX equivalent.