Chapter 4: About Support Tools Utilities

 

 

 

Support Tools Utilities List

Tool Name:

Description:

Installed On:

Dashboard No Dashboard

 

 

 

Privileged

or

 

 

 

Users

Command-Line

 

 

 

Only:

Access:

Arp-a

Use to find the media access control address

All Support Tools

 

 

 

of a host on the same physical network.

nodes

 

 

cat

Use the CAT utility to display, print, and

All Support Tools

X

 

 

combine files. Equivalent of the DOS type

nodes

 

 

 

command.

 

 

 

chmod

Use to change file permissions. Equivalent of

All Support Tools

X

 

 

the DOS attrib command.

nodes

 

 

cp

Equivalent of the DOS copy command.

All Support Tools

X

 

 

 

nodes

 

 

df

Use to view disk free information.

All Support Tools

 

 

 

 

nodes

 

 

diff

Use to compare two text files or two

All Support Tools

 

 

 

directories.

nodes

 

 

du

Use to view disk usage information.

All Support Tools

 

 

 

 

nodes

 

 

fgrep

Use to search for text patterns within a set of

All Support Tools

 

 

 

files.

nodes

 

 

findstr

Use to find strings in logs or text files. Similar

All Support Tools

 

 

 

to UNIX's grep command. Useful when

nodes

 

 

 

parsing log files or other text files to find a

 

 

 

 

snippet of text.

 

 

 

grep

Use to search for text patterns within a set of

All Support Tools

 

 

 

files.

nodes

 

 

head

Use to view user-defined number of lines from

All Support Tools

 

 

 

the start of a file.

nodes

 

 

IPConfig -all

Use to get host computer configuration

All Support Tools

 

 

 

information, including the IP address, subnet

nodes

 

 

 

mask, and default gateway.

 

 

 

isql/w

Interactive SQL for Windows. Use to query

Nodes on which SQL

 

X

 

and update Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Server is installed

 

 

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