- connect
Connect to a console, start one up if necessary.
Usage: connect [host [nostart [port]]]
host - Name of the console machine
nostart - Do not start a Console if one does not exist.
port- RMI Registry port where Console is registered.
- console
Pass a command directly to the remote Console.
- exit
Quit the TuiConsole. This does not stop the Console, or any other service started by the TuiConsole. The aliases for exit are quit and Ctrl-D.
- help
List all available commands, or get help on a particular command.
- ping
This command goes through the various steps to communicate with an Remte Interface. It creates a connection to the specified machine, looks in the RMI registry and gets the remote reference.
Usage: ping host service [verbose]
host - Name of the machine
service - Name of the service (known services include: console, hsp, and a taskserver).
verbose - Display the status at each step.
- show
Display a value or property.
Usage: show <object> [options]
rmi [host] - Dump the items bound in an RMI registry (default host is
services - List of registered services.
console - Display remote reference of the Console.
property <prop> - Display the value of a System property.
launch - Display the current launch configuration.
- start
Start a service.
Usage: start <service> [options]
console [host [noconnect]] - Start up console on the specified host.
taskserver [hspdomain [#hosts]] - Start up a TaskServer of registered services.
console - Display remote reference of the Console.
property <prop> - Display the value of a System property.
launch - Display the current launch configuration.
The default values for machine, hspdomain, and ts-machine (TaskServer machine), is localhost. By default, the TuiConsole will attempt to connect to the console afterwards, you can prevent this by adding the noconnect option to start console.
- stop
Using the shutdown() method of the Administrable interface, stop a service. The TuiConsole only knows how to stop a console. In order to stop anything else, it passes the command on to th Console for it to stop a "registered" service; hsp, taskserver, and chameleon. This command also has the alias kill.