who
The who command displays authentication information for the users who are currently logged in. It also includes information about users who are logged in with service and engineering roles.
Parameters
- -s
- (Optional) Displays the user names for the users who are currently logged on. The -l and -s parameters cannot be used together.
- -l
- (Optional) Displays details about the users who are currently logged on, including user name and authority groups that the user belongs to. The -l and -s parameters cannot be used together.
- -group group_name
- (Optional) Displays the list of users who are currently logged in and who are part of the
specified access authority group. If the user has multiple group roles, the user is displayed if any
of those roles match the specified group.
- group_name
- The following list provides the list choices that can be assigned to a user. The group_name can
be one of the following roles:
- admin (Administrator)
- ibm_engineering (Engineer)
- ibm_service (Service)Note: The "ibm_engineering" and "ibm_service" roles cannot be combined with other existing roles. The DSCLI allows users to have multiple roles, but currently the only combination allowed is "op_volume" + "op_copy_services."
- op_storage (Physical Operator)
- op_volume (Logical Operator)
- op_copy_services (Copy Services Operator)
- secadmin (Security Administrator)
- service (Service Operator)
- monitor (Monitor)
- no_access (No Access)
- -pol pol_name
- (Optional) Displays the list of users who are currently logged in under the specified client type.
- -type client_type
- (Optional) Displays the list of users who are currently logged in and who have the specified
client type. One of the following client types are displayed:
- DSCLI
- DS Command Line Interface
- DSGUI
- DS Storage Management GUI
- HMTU
- IBM® Easy Tier® Heat Map Transfer Utility
- SC
- IBM Spectrum Control
- CSM
- IBM Copy Services Manager
- Unknown
- Unknown might be displayed for older versions of any of the client types that are listed above.
- -address client_address
- (Optional) Displays the users who are currently logged in with the specified client address.
- -protocol none |sslv3 | tlsv1.0 |tlsv1.1 | tlsv1.2| tlsv1.3
- (Optional) Displays the users who are currently logged in with
the specified client connection protocol.
- None
- The connection is not encrypted.
- sslv3
- Secure Socket Layer version 3.
- tlsv1.0
- Transport Layer Security version 1.0.
- tlsv1.1
- Transport Layer Security version 1.1.
- tlsv1.2
- Transport Layer Security version 1.2.
- tlsv1.3
- Transport Layer Security version 1.3.
- user_name | -
- (Optional) Displays only the users names for the specified user account.
Example: Viewing authentication information for the users who are currently logged in.
dscli> who Output:
| Name | Group | Policy | Scope | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Testuser | service,op_copy_services | localPolicy | ABC_Co | DSGUI |
| Biguser | admin | localPolicy | * | DSCLI |
| Shyuser | ibm_service | initalPolicy | Public | DSCLI |
| Version | Address | Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| - | 9.123.236.89 | Internal |
| 7.9.40.204 | 9.123.456.139 | TLSv1.2 |
| 7.9.40.409 | 9.123.456.139 | TLSv1.3 |
Output definitions
- Name
- The user names for the users who are currently logged on.
- Group
- The authority groups that the current users are assigned to.
- Policy
- The name of the authentication policy that was active when each of the current users authenticated. The currently active policy can differ.
- Scope
- The user resource scope.
- Type
- The client type. The value is Unknown when the DS CLI is pre-R6.1.
- Version
- The client version. The value is Unknown when the DS CLI is pre-R6.1.
- Address
- The client address.
- Protocol
- The type of client connection protocol is provided.
- None
- The connection is not encrypted.
- Internal
- The connection is wholly contained within the HMC.
- SSLv3
- Secure Socket Layer version 3.
- TLSv1.0
- Transport Layer Security version 1.0.
- TLSv1.1
- Transport Layer Security version 1.1.
- TLSv1.2
- Transport Layer Security version 1.2.
- TLSv1.3
- Transport Layer Security version 1.3.
- -
- The dash (-) indicates that the connection protocol is unknown or the reporting query is not supported.