esacli lsentityIds

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Use the esacli lsentityIds to display the entity IDs associated with the hosts.

Synopsis

esacli lsentityIds

esacli lsentityIds [-h hostname]

Description

The esacli lsentityIds command displays the entity IDs of all the hosts or a specific host.

Options

-h | --host
Displays the entity ID associated with the specified host.

To collect the entity ID of a particular host, specify the host name. The host can be a remote host or the primary system on which ESA is installed. For the primary system, the value can be either "localhost" or the output of the command host name. For remote host, the value can be either host name or system name / IP address that is used to discover the system.

Note: You might get the following error messages for the respective conditions:
Condition Error message
Provided an invalid host name Specified host name is invalid
If there is no entity ID associated with given host name No Entity IDs for the specified host
If you provide the option -h and did not specify the host name (option value). An option value was not provided

Exit status

The following table contains the codes that are returned by this command.
  • 0: The operation completed successfully.
  • 1: IBM Electronic Service Agent instance is not running.
  • 10: Unsupported option was specified. Option: {option}
  • 13: An invalid host name was specified for a subcommand host option.
  • 18: An option was set more than once. Option: {option}
  • 19: An option value was not provided when required. Option: {option}

Examples

  • Lists entity Ids of all hosts
    esacli lsentityIds
EntityId | HostName | MachineType | MachineModel | SerialNumber | IPAddresses | systemID | LPARID
EPS/BOUB24924961 | sa6p05 | 9117|MMA | 10F94EB | 9.5.103.126,2002:905:150e:301:214:5eff:fe5f:1a24,
fe80::214:5eff:fe5f:1a24 | PrimarySystem | 17
EPS/BOUB24925162 | sa6p12 | 8286 | 41A | TU00010 | fe80::42f2:e9ff:fe5a:8dec,9.5.31.12,
fe80::42f2:e9ff:fe5a:8dec,192.168.122.1 | PrimarySystem | 12
  • List entity Id associated with a specific host
    esacli lsentityIds -h sa6p05
EntityId | HostName | MachineType | MachineModel | SerialNumber | IPAddresses | systemID | LPARID
EPS/BOUB24924961 | sa6p05 | 9117 | MMA | 10F94EB | 9.5.103.126,2002:905:150e:301:214:5eff:fe5f:1a24,
fe80::214:5eff:fe5f:1a24 | PrimarySystem | 10