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The asadmin Utility

■-s --secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the domain application server.

■-t --terse indicates that any output data must be very concise, typically avoiding human-friendly sentences and favoring well-formatted data for consumption by a script. Default is false.

■-e --echo setting to true will echo the command line statement on the standard output. Default is false.

■-I --interactive if set to true (default), only the required password options are prompted.

■-h --help displays the help text for the command.

For subcommands that can be executed locally or remotely, if any one of the--host, --port, --user, and --passwordfile options are set, either in the environment or in the command line, the subcommand will run in remote mode. Additionally, for subcommands that can be executed locally or remotely, if the --local option is set to true, the subcommand will run locally. Also, if none of the local options are set, either on the command line or in the environment, the subcommand is executed locally by default. Setting the --local option to true overrides the local --host, --port, --user, and --passwordfile settings, even if specified. The subcommand will run in local mode.

Subcommands that can be executed locally accept the --domain option to specify the domain of interest which assumes the domain as the default domain if there is only one. If there is more than one domain, the --domain option is a required option. For subcommands that can be run locally or remotely, when run remotely with the--host, --port, --user, and --passwordfile options specified, the --domain option is ignored. The --domain option is ignored if the subcommand will be run in remote mode. Note that there is one administration instance per domain, so on a single machine with multiple domains, local execution must specify the domain, and remote execution must specify the --host, --port, --user, and --passwordfile options for the administration instance for that domain.

For security purposes, you can set the password for a subcommand from a file instead of entering the password at the command line. The --passwordfile option takes the file containing the passwords. The valid contents for the file are:

EXAMPLE C–1Passwordfile contents

AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=value

AS_ADMIN_ADMINPASSWORD=value

AS_ADMIN_USERPASSWORD=value

AS_ADMIN_MASTERPASSWORD=value

If AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD has been exported to the global environment, specifying the

--passwordfile option will produce a warning about using the --password option. Unset AS_ADMIN_PASSWORD to prevent this from happening. The master password is not propagated on the command line or an environment variable, but can be specified in the passwordfile.

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