Terminal, Using the terminal application – Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) User Manual
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Chapter 17
Terminal
You use the Terminal application to run command-line tools. Most of the tools described in
this chapter are command-line tools, such as dsimportexport, systemsetup, networksetup,
and diskutil.
Using the Terminal Application
Terminal lets you open a UNIX shell command-line session on your server or a remote server
you are administering. You’ll find Terminal in /Applications/Utilities/.
When you open Terminal, you see a prompt that usually includes the name of the local host,
the directory you’re using, your user name, and a symbol (for example, “[patsy6:/usr/sbin]
liz%”). In this example, patsy6 is the server’s host name, the directory you are working in is
/usr/sbin, and the user name is liz.
The percent symbol (%) is called the prompt. It indicates that you can enter a command.
Press the Return key after you type a command. Depending on what you typed, you could
see a list of information followed by another prompt, or your command will execute and give
you some type of feedback and a prompt, or you will receive no feedback and another
prompt. No feedback usually means that the command was executed properly.
MySQL Manager
Manage the version of MySQL that is installed
with Mac OS X Server
Simple Network
Management Protocol
(SNMP) administration
tools
Monitor your server using the SNMP interface
diskKeyFinder
Verify the physical location of a remote
headless server volume that you want to
manage
Enabling IP failover
Set up a standby server that takes over if the
primary server fails
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