Set Up Command Line Access to NNMi

NNMi limits access to Command Line Interface (CLI) commands in one of two ways:

• Method One: Requiring User Name and Password.
• Method Two: Requiring permission to access NNMi as the system user.

See Help → Documentation Library → Reference Pages for a list of command line commands. Check the appropriate Reference Page to determine which method applies.

Method One: Requiring User Name and Password.

There are two strategies for CLI user name and password:

• Providing the appropriate NNMi User Name attribute value and NNMi Password attribute value within the CLI syntax (-u and -p).

• Configuring a valid NNMi User Name attribute value and NNMi Password attribute value using the nnmsetcmduserpw.ovpl command. See Help → Documentation Library → Reference Pages for details.

  Note With nnmsetcmduserpw.ovpl, the CLI command must then be run on the same machine where the nnmsetcmduserpw.ovpl command was executed.

Method Two: Requiring permission to access NNMi as the system user.

During NNMi installation, the first access to the NNMi console requires a special system User Name and Password. Thereafter, only the following situations are appropriate for the system user:

• The CLI you are using runs only when executed by the special NNMi system user.
• If your network environment uses X.509 Certificates such as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) user authentication, all NNMi CLI commands must be executed by the special NNMi system user. See the “Configuring NNMi to Support Public Key Infrastructure User Authentication” chapter in theNetwork Node Manager i Software Deployment Referencefor more information, which is available at: https://softwaresupport.softwaregrp.com/.
• For Troubleshooting purposes when mistakes were made that result in zero NNMi users being mapped to the NNMi User GroupNNMi User Groups are those User Groups provided by NNMi. Users cannot access the NNMi console until their User Account is mapped to at least one of the following NNMi User Groups: NNMi Administrators, NNMi Level 2 Operators, NNMi Level 1 Operators (with more limited access privileges than Level 2 Operators), and NNMi Guest Users: NNMi Administrators.

If method two is required, your CLI command must be issued from the NNMi management server and you must have read access to the following file on the NNMi management server: nms-users.properties

Note the following for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) user authentication to provide NNMi User Name and NNMi Password:

• If you are logged into the operating system as root user, NNMi automatically accesses the system User Account and runs the command using the NNMi system user's credentials.
• If you are logged into the operating system with a user name other than root and your user name is not configured for read access to the nms-users.properties file, NNMi cannot run the CLI command.