CLI Overview

The TIBCO Enterprise Message Service Appliance CLI is a text-based interface for setup and management of the appliances.

The tibadm user can access the CLI through either a console connection to the system or through a Secure Shell (SSH) connection.

To access the appliance using SSH, login using the IP address specified during setup and initialization. Depending on the appliance configuration, this may be:

  • The management IP address. This is the default setting.
  • The EMS server IP address. This address may be used if the optional EMS Server Gateway IP was configured and is operational.

See Initializing the Software for information on initialization.

Some of the CLI commands are specifying an action on a particular EMS server instance. You are therefore required to identify the desired server instance, either 0 or 1. In a single appliance configuration, the instance is always 0.

Note: In a fault tolerant configuration, some CLI commands act only on the appliance the CLI is running on. Commands that take an instance parameter do not write changes to the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service server instance on the fault tolerant peer. If you specify an instance number that is not primary for this appliance, the command acts on the secondary EMS server instance.