IBM DS6000 Series manual Setting up a profile, Example 10-15 Example of a dscli.profile file

Having added the userid called csadmin, the password has been saved in an encrypted file called security.dat. By default, the file is placed in:

￿c:\Documents and settings\<Windows user name>\DSCLI\security.dat

or

￿$HOME/dscli/security.dat

You can however use the -pwfileparameter to place this file anywhere.

Setting up a profile

Having created a userid, you will need to edit the profile used by the DS CLI to store the S-HMC IP address (or fully qualified name) and other common parameters. By default profile

is located at C:\Program Files\IBM\dscli\profile\dscli.profile or /opt/ibm/dscli/dscli.profile. An example of a secure profile is shown in Example 10-15.

Example 10-15 Example of a dscli.profile file

#DS CLI Profile

#

#Management Console/Node IP Address(es) are specified using the hmc parameter

#hmc1 and hmc2 are equivalent to -hmc1 and -hmc2 command line options.

#hmc1 is cluster 1 of 2105 800 23953

hmc1:10.0.0.1

#hmc2:127.0.0.1

#Username must be specified if a password file is used username: csadmin

#Password filename is the name of an encrypted password file

#This file is located at C:\Program Files\IBM\dscli

pwfile: security.dat

#Default target Storage Image ID

#If the -dev parameter is needed in a command then it will default to the value here

#"devid" is equivalent to "-dev storage_image_ID"

#the default server that DS CLI commands will be run on is 2105 800 23953

devid: IBM.2105-23953

If you don’t want to create an encrypted password file, or do not have access to a simulator or real DS MC, then you can specify the password in plain text. This is done either at the command line or in a script or in the profile. This is not recommended since the password itself is now not as secure. An example of a profile that contains plain text authentication details is shown in Example 10-16.

Example 10-16 Example of a DS CLI profile that specifies the username and password

#DS CLI Profile

#hmc1 is cluster 1 of 2105 800 23953 hmc1:10.0.0.1

#The username to log onto the ESS username: csadmin

#The password for csadmin: password: passw0rd

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