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Appendix A Command Line Interface
Getting Help within the CLI
The CLI contains the following commands for assisting your use.
Securing CLI User Accounts and the Privileged Mode Password
You must manage CLI user accounts separately on each vShield virtual machine. By default, you use the
admin user account to log in to the CLI of each vShield virtual machine. The CLI admin account and password
are separate from the vShield Manager user interface admin account and password.
You should create a new CLI user account and remove the admin account to secure access to the CLI on each
vShield virtual machine.
User account management in the CLI conforms to the following rules.
You can create CLI user accounts. Each created user account has administrator-level access to the CLI.
You cannot change the password for any CLI user account on a vShield Manager or vShield App virtual
machine. If you need to change a CLI user account password, you must delete the user account, and then
re-add it with a new password. You can change the password of any non-admin account on the
vShield Edge.
The CLI admin account password and the Privileged mode password are managed separately. The default
Privileged mode password is the same for each CLI user account. You should change the Privileged mode
password to secure access to the CLI configuration options.
Add a CLI User Account
You can add a user account with a strong password to secure CLI access to each vShield virtual machine. After
adding a user account, you should delete the admin user account.
To add a CLI user account
1
Log in to the vSphere Client.
2
Select a vShield virtual machine from the inventory.
3
Click the
Console
tab to open a CLI session.
4
Log in by using the admin account.
manager login: admin
password:
manager>
5
Switch to Privileged mode.
manager> enable
password:
manager#
Command
Description
?
Moves the pointer to the beginning of the line.
sho?
Displays a list of commands that begin with a particular character string.
exp+TAB
Completes a partial command name.
show ?
Lists the associated keywords of a command.
show log ?
Lists the associated arguments of a keyword.
list
Displays the verbose options of all commands for the current mode.
I
MPORTANT
Each vShield virtual machine has two built-in CLI user accounts for system use: nobody and
vs_comm. Do not delete or modify these accounts. If these accounts are deleted or modified, the virtual
machine will not work.
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