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5. Command Line Interface
How Do I …
See the list of available programs?
1. Use the ‘help’ program to display all available programs.
See the manual for any program?
1. Use the ‘man’ program to display the manual for any program. It is invoked by typing ‘man <program name>’ without the angle
brackets and the ‘program name’ replaced by the name of the program you are interested in.
See my devices?
1. Use the program ‘devmgr’ to view the list of devices and individual device details.
2. Use the program ‘devselect’ to choose a device to work with.
See my device status?
1. Use the program ‘devstatus’ to view the device status (called ‘variables’).
2. Use the program ‘alarm’ to view the active alarms.
Set the time?
1. Use either ‘hwclock’ to change the Real-Time Clock (RTC) or ‘ntpcfg’ to change the network time settings.
2. Use either ‘hwclock’ to synchronize the system clock or skip ahead and use ‘reboot’ to persist the changes and synchronize
automatically on the next restart.
Set up email?
1. Use the program ‘addrbook’ to add your email addresses.
2. Use the program ‘emailcfg’ to configure outgoing email.
3. [Optional] Use the ‘action’ program to create an email action. Do this if you want to add only a few of the email addresses or if you
want to make the system delay before emailing.
4. [Optional] Use the ‘actcfg’ program to assign the email action to alarm triggers. By default an email action is already assigned to all
alarms, but if you made a new action you will assign it yourself.
Control my power protection device loads?
1. [Optional] Use the program ‘loadcfg’ to configure ramp and shed settings and create load groups.
2. Use the program ‘loadctl’ to control loads and load groups, the main load, and execute ramp or shed sequences.
Add a user or SNMP Community?
1. Use the program ‘user’ to add or modify local user accounts & SNMP communities.
2. Use the program ‘passwd’ to set the password for any new non-SNMP account, which will cause the account to activate.
3. [Optional] Use the ‘snmpcfg’ program to modify SNMP protocol access.
Reset PowerAlert to factory default settings?
1. Use the program ‘freset’ to reset all user data to factory default.
2. Use the ‘reboot’ program to bring the system down and back up with factory default settings.
Enable or disable SFTP?
1. Use either ‘sftpcfg –enable’ or ‘sftpcfg –disable’n
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