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N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 User's Guide

ProcedureHow To Use the Command Line Interface

You can also use the command-line interface to model components and install them on target hosts

Steps

  1. Install the Command Line Interface Client on the server where you will be executing CLI commands. The server must be able to establish a network connection to the Master Server.

  2. Using an XML editor such as TurboXML, write the XML definition of the component.

  3. Run the cdb.cd.ci command to check in the component.

    Note –

    Once you have checked in the component, you have the option of installing it on a single set of target hosts by using the HTML user interface to directly run the component's install procedure. Direct run procedures can be called through the HTML user interface, but not through the command line interface.

  4. Use an XML editor such as TurboXML to write a plan for the component.

  5. Run the pdb.ci command to check in the plan.

  6. Run the pe.p.run command to run the plan.

    Note –

    The CLI commands that run plans do not report on the progress of the plan's execution. To monitor the progress of a plan while it is running, run the plan from the HTML user interface.