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NetVault 13.1.2 - CLI Reference Guide

Table of Contents

About Quest® NetVault® About this document Target audience Recommended additional reading

Getting started

About NetVault Command Line Interface Working with command-line utilities

Command syntax CLI help Command exit status Environment variables

Starting or stopping the NetVault Service

Using the command-line utilities

Client-specific utilities

nvclient nvclientaccess nvclientadd nvclientlist nvclientname nvclientremove

Device-specific utilities Media-specific utilities

nvblankmedia nvsetmedia nvbulkblankmedia nvexportmedia nvlabelmedia nvlistblankmedia nvlistmedia nvloadmedia nvmakemedia nvmediadetails nvremovemedia nvreusemedia nvscanmedia nvsyncronizesilomedia nvupdateserialnumber

Job-specific utilities

nvexpiresaveset nvjobabort nvjobcreate nvjobdelete nvjobhold nvjoblist nvjobmodify nvjobresume nvjobstart nvpolicy nvrestore nvsetcreate

Backup Selection Set Restore Selection Set Backup Options Set Schedule Set Backup Target Set Backup Advanced Options Set Restore Advanced Options Set

nvsetdelete nvsetexport nvsetimport nvsetmodify nvtrigger

Log-specific utilities

nvlogdump nvlogpurge nvreadlog

Other utilities

bonedate getmachineid installplugin licenseinstall nvlicenseinfo nvmeddbcheck nvpassword nvpluginpreconfig nvpluginaccess nvpgdbpasswd nvreport nvscheddbcheck nvsendmail nvsendopmsg nvtrace

Using the nvreport utility

About nvreport utility Report classes Plain text template files Formatting the reports

Using the format option Using the sort option Using the include option Using the title option

Creating external report files HTML template files

bonedate

Displays the NetVault date and time in use on the current machine. This information is obtained from the machine configured as the NetVault Time Server. For more information about NetVault Time, see the Quest NetVault Administrator’s Guide.

getmachineid

Finds machine ID of the NetVault Server or Client machine on which this utility is run. Machine ID is required to obtain permanent licenses for NetVault products.

installplugin

Installs NetVault plug-ins on the server or client machines. This utility is located in the bin directory.

installplugin <Full path to the .npk installation file>

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Verify that you provide the full file path to the “.npk” installation file. Enclose the path within quotation marks (“”) if it contains any spaces.

licenseinstall

Installs product license. This utility is located in the bin directory.

licenseinstall <license file in .div format>

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