Issuing commands to the probe

You can use the command line interface to issue bounce, resynch, passthru, addne, delne, and writehost commands to the probe.

Bounce command

The bounce command instructs the probe to disconnect from the specified network element and then immediately reconnect.

Note: If you use a tl1.hosts configuration file for multiple TIDs under a single host:port (that is, using File format 1 as described in Format for hosts file when specifying multiple TL1 devices on a single host), and if you bounce any one of the TIDs, all of the other TIDs under the same connection will also restart.

The command syntax is:

bounce -tid target_id

When the command is issued, the probe looks for the connection specified by the host and port parameters. If found, the probe then closes that connection, which then goes into re-connection mode.

Resynch command

The resynch command instructs the probe to send a resynchronization request to the specified network element. The resynch command that the probe sends is defined in the hosts file.

The command syntax is:

resynch -tid target_id

When the command is issued, the probe uses the target ID to identify which command in the hosts files to send. For details about the hosts file, see Specifying devices using a hosts file.

Passthru command

The passthru command instructs the probe to send a message to the TL1 device.

The command syntax is:

passthru -tid target_id -msg tl1_command

Addne command

The addne command adds a network element during runtime.

The command syntax is:

addne -host 'host port' -cfg 'configuration'

Note: The configuration string should use the format described for host file device entries in Specifying devices using a hosts file.

Delne command

The delne command deletes a network element during runtime.

The command syntax is:

delne -tid target_id

Writehost command

The writehost command writes details of the current configuration of the network element to a log file.

The command syntax is:

writehost -file filename