Command line access

You must access the command line on the IBM® MQ Appliance before you can enter appliance administrative or IBM MQ commands.

You can access the command line in the following ways:

Directly connect to the serial port. For details, see Connecting to the serial port.
Enable SSH and establish a remote connection through the SSH service. For details, see Configuring the SSH service.

To use the IBM MQ control commands you must enter the IBM MQ administration mode by entering the command mqcli on the command line. You can exit the IBM MQ administration mode by entering the command exit.

You can use the role based management (RBM) features to set up users who have different levels of access to appliance functionality when using the CLI interface (see Role based management). You can use RBM with local users or users defined in LDAP. You can also configure SSH access to use certificate and/or password for authentication (see SSH authentication for CLI sessions).