An administrator (root or admin) can configure the OnSite using the CLI utility. Only one administrator (root or admin) can run the CLI utility at a time. If an administrator is logged into the Web Manager, the CLI utility displays a prompt asking if you want to cancel the other administrator’s session.Administrators often prefer using the CLI over the Web Manager because they can run frequently-performed CLI configuration commands from shell scripts or from text files that can be executed in batch mode.The CLI utility provides a set of commands that act on parameters that are nested in a format called the CLI parameter tree. Some parameters require arguments when the parameters are entered with some commands. This section describes the CLI command and how to navigate the CLI parameter tree, but it does not describe all the parameters and values.The following screen example shows CLI entered like any other command on the Linux command line on the OnSite.
Please refer to the Reference Guide for other special keys and additional information on how to use this interface.As shown in the previous example, usage information appears before the cli> prompt appears.As shown in the previous screen example, the Cyclades CLI can be entered at the root prompt. CLI can also be entered at the admin prompt that appears when an admin user connects to the OnSite from the Web Manager under Access> Connect to Server. In both cases, CLI is being run in interactive mode. See the following sections for definitions of the interactive mode and other execution modes.Quote strings with spaces using single or double quotes, as shown here: '"string1 string2”'.