Overview

This page provides information on Universal Command (UCMD) Manager specific to the Windows operating system.

UCMD Manager provides a command line interface to remote computers running the UCMD Server component. The UCMD Manager executes remote commands as they would be if you entered the command directly on the remote command line.

On the command line, you must specify a command to execute and a remote Universal Broker. Additional input to each execution of the UCMD Manager command is made via configuration options, which control product behavior and resource allocation for that execution.

Remote standard input and output files are redirected to the UCMD Manager's standard input and output files.

UCMD Manager registers with a locally running Universal Broker. Consequentially, a Universal Broker must be running in order for a UCMD Manager to execute.

Usage

UCMD Manager for Windows executes as a command line application. It consists of the command line program followed by a list of configuration options. This section describes the command input, configuration and configuration options, and command line syntax.

Standard Input

The UCMD Manager command is executed from the Command Prompt window or a batch file. The ucmd command reads from standard input and writes it to the UCMD Server for the remote command to read as its standard input.

When UCMD Manager is executed from the Command Prompt window, standard input is allocated to the window itself. Any characters typed in the Command Prompt window are read as standard input by ucmd and transmitted to the UCMD Server.

If ucmd is executing a remote command that is reading standard input, it will read the characters being typed in the Command Prompt window until it receives an end-of-file indicator. To enter end-of-file in a Command Prompt window, press <Ctrl+Z*>* <Enter> at the start of a new line.

The allocation of standard input can be changed with a Command Prompt redirection operator. The redirection operators instruct Windows to change the allocation of the standard files.

To change the allocation of standard input, use the < operator. Windows can redirect to a special file referred to as NUL. The NUL file is always empty if read from, and never full if written to (all data written to NUL is never saved on disk or in memory).

To allocate standard input to NUL, the command syntax is as follows:

*ucmd \[OPTIONS...\] < NUL*

Configuration

Configuration consists of:

• Setting default options and preferences for all executions of UCMD Manager.
• Setting options and preferences for a single execution of UCMD Manager.

Configuration options are read from the following sources:

1. Command line
2. Command file
3. Environment variables
4. Configuration file

The order of precedence is the same as the list above; command line being the highest and configuration file being the lowest. That is, options specified via a command line override options specified via a command file, and so on.

For detailed information on these methods of configuration, see Configuration Management.

Configuration File

The configuration file provides the simplest method of specifying configuration options whose values you do not want changed with each command invocation. These default values are used if the options are not read from one or more other sources.

Although configuration files can be edited with any text editor (for example, Notepad), the Universal Configuration Manager application, accessible via the Control Panel, is the recommended way to set configuration options. The Universal Configuration Manager provides a graphical interface and context-sensitive help, and helps protect the integrity of the configuration file by validating all changes to configuration option values.

Some options only can be specified in the configuration file; they have no corresponding command line equivalent. Other options cannot be specified in the configuration file; they must be specified via one or more other sources for a single execution of UCMD Manager.

Configuration Options

This section describes the configuration options used to execute UCMD Manager for Windows.

Configuration Options Categories

The following table categorizes the configuration options into logical areas of application. Each Category name is a link to a table of options in that category. Each Option Name in those tables is a link to detailed information about that option.

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Certificate Category Options Certificate Category Options

Certificate Category Options

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Command Category Options Command Category Options

Command Category Options

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Events Category Options Events Category Options

Events Category Options

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Installation Category Options Installation Category Options

Installation Category Options

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Messages Category Options Messages Category Options

Messages Category Options

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Miscellaneous Category Options Miscellaneous Category Options

Miscellaneous Category Options

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Network Category Options Network Category Options

Network Category Options

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Options Category Options Options Category Options

Options Category Options

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Remote Category Options Remote Category Options

Remote Category Options

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Standard File Category Options Standard File Category Options

Standard File Category Options

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User Category Options User Category Options

User Category Options