Chapter 7

DMI Command Line Utilities

7.1 DMI Command Line Utilities Overview

The Desktop Management Interface(DMI) Protocol command line interface consists of two utilities that retrieve DMI Service Provider (SP) information:

dmi_cmd
dmiget

7.1.1 The dmi_cmd Utility

The dmi_cmd utility provides the ability to:

Obtain version information about the DMI SP
Set the configuration to describe the language required by the management application
Obtain the configuration information describing the current language in use for the session

Install components into the database
List components in a system to determine what is installed
Delete an existing component from the database
Install group schemas to an existing component in the database
List class names for all groups in a component
List the groups within a component
Delete a group from a component
Install a language schema for an existing component in the database
List the set of language mappings installed for a specified component
Delete a specific language mapping for a component
List properties for one or more attributes in a group

7.1.2 The dmiget Utility

The dmiget utility retrieves the table information of a specific component in the DMI SP.

7.2 Using the dmi_cmd Command

dmi_cmd [-s hostname]
-h |
-V |
-W config |
-X |
-CI mif_filename |
-CL [-c compId] [-r reqMode] [-d] [-p] [-m maxCount] |
-CD -c compId |
-GI schema_filename -c compId |
-GL -c compId -g groupId [-r reqMode] [-d] [-p] [-m maxCount] |
-GM -c compId [-m maxCount] |
-GD -c compId -g groupId |
-NI schema_filename -c compId |
-NL -c compId |
-ND -c compId -l language_string |
-AL -c compId -g groupId [-a attrId] [-r reqMode] [-d] [-p]

[-m maxCount]

The command line arguments for dmi_cmd are shown in Table 7-1.

Table 7-1 dmi_cmd Command Line Arguments

Argument	Description
`-s` hostname	Specifies the host machine that `dmisp` is running on; the default host is the local host
`-h`	Prints usage information
`-V`	Retrieves version information about the DMI SP
`-W` config	Sets the configuration specified in config to `dmisp`
`-X`	Retrieves configuration information describing the current language in use
`-CI` mif_filename	Installs the component specified in mif_filename
`-CL` [-c compId] [-r reqMode] [-d] [-p] [-m maxCount]	Lists components
`-CD` -c compId	Deletes the component specified by compId
`-GI` schema_filename -c compId	Installs the group schema specified in schema_filename
`-GL` -c compId -g groupId [-r reqMode] [-d] [-p] [-m maxCount]	Lists the groups for a specified component
`-GM` -c compId [-m maxCount]	Lists class names for a specified component
`-GD` -c compId -g groupId	Deletes specified groups for a specified component
`-NI` schema_filename -c compId	Installs the language schema specified in schema_filename
`-NL` -c compId	Lists language mappings for a specified component
`-ND` -c compId -l language_string	Deletes language mapping for a specified component
`-AL` -c compId -g groupId [-a attrId] [-r reqMode] [-d] [-p] [-m maxCount]	Lists attributes for a specified component

Note - The values for compId, groupId, attrId, and maxCount are positive integers. The default value is 0.

The valid integer values for reqMode are:

1 (DMI_UNIQUE)
2 (DMI_FIRST)
3 (DMI_NEXT)

Note - The default value for reqMode is 1 (DMI_UNIQUE). If an invalid reqMode is specified, the default value is used.
When listing components (-CL), groups (-GL), or attributes (-AL), use the -d option to display descriptions and the -p option to display the pragma string.