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VXFINGER (1M)

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NAME

vxfinger - displays information about the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (Java console) users connected to the Local Controller (vxsvc).

SYNOPSIS

vxfinger -h

vxfinger [{-l host}{-u user@domain.domain_type}{-p password}]

DESCRIPTION

Fully-qualified user name
Real name of the user
Connected time
IP address of the host to which the user is connected.

If used on a centrally managed host with the optional switches -l, -u, and -p, then vxfinger connects to the Domain Controller on the Management Server and reports on all users in the domain.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Provides usage information for vxfinger.
-l, --host host: host is the short host name, IP address, or the fully-qualified host name for the Domain Controller host.
-u, --user-id user@domain.domainType: The user ID. user is a valid account for the Domain Controller host.domain is a valid authentication domain for the Domain Controller host. domainType is the type of authentication domain for the Domain Controller host, and can be the following: vx, nisplus, nis, nt, and unixpwd.
-p, --password user_passwd: Password for the specified account.

NOTES

Information about users connected with the shared memory log switched on is not displayed.

When vxfinger returns no output, no VEA (Java console) users are connected to vxsvc, or the vxfinger user has insufficient privileges to query users.

NOTES

Before running vxdbms_start_db.pl, you must first source the script, by changing to the /opt/VRTSdbms3 directory and running the appropriate command:

Bourne shell and Korn shell:
```
. ./vxdbms_env.sh
```
C shell:
```
source ./vxdbms_env.csh
```

VXFINGER (1M)

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