When running NetVault cli commands we see “Failed to start a CLI session - Failed to logon” as seen below:
util>nvlogdump -filename weekend -starttime 20130706000000 -endtime 20130708120000
Failed to start a CLI session - Failed to logon:
The default account has had the password set so we need to setup the following 2 environment variables before being able to run cli commands:
On Windows:
set NETVAULTCLIACCOUNT=default
set NETVAULTCLIPASSWORD=<password>
on linux:
export NETVAULTCLIACCOUNT=default
export NETVAULTCLIPASSWORD=<password>
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