Monitoring appliances using the CLI

Use the commands in this section to view detection and analysis results on managed appliances by executing individual commands on behalf of them. The commands are executed once; they are not stored.

Note

For comprehensive information about the detection and analysis commands, see the User Guide for your appliance.

Note

If you omit the command parameter from these commands, you will be prompted for it, and the characters you enter will be masked for confidentiality.

Note

This topic describes how to execute a single command. You can also define a profile of commands that run in sequence unattended. See Working with command profiles.

To execute a command on a managed appliance:

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

Execute the command:

hostname (config) # cmc execute appliance <applianceName> command ["<command>"]

where command must be enclosed in double quotation marks.

To execute a command on a group of appliances:

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

Execute the command:
```
hostname (config) # cmc execute group <groupName> command ["<command>"]
```
where command must be enclosed in double quotation marks.

Important

You can cancel the execution of outstanding commands, as described in Canceling outstanding commands.

Example

This example executes the show alerts summary command on behalf of the NX-04 appliance.

hostname (config) # cmc execute appliance NX-04 command "show alerts summary"
============ Appliance NX-04 ============
Execution was successful.
Execution output:
   Domain Match         : 2182
   Web Infection        : 6133
   Malware Callback     : 27273
   Infection Match      : 4035
   Malware Object       : 12564
   Total Alerts         : 52187