Sending commands from the Domino Administrator console
A Domino® server command can contain up to 255 characters. If an argument for a command contains a space, enclose it in quotation marks. For example: PULL "Renovations Server".
About this task
Tell Amgr -?
Tell Amgr /?
To send a command from the Domino Administrator console:
Procedure
- Make sure you have the administrator access to the server required for the command you are sending.
- From the Domino Administrator, connect to the server.
- Click .
- Click Server Console.
- Do one of the following to add the command to the Command
box:
- Enter the command with any arguments directly in the Command box.
- Click Commands, select the command from the list, and click OK. Enter any necessary arguments.
- If you've added the command to the Commands menu, select the command from the list.
- If you are sending a Tell command to the Certificate Authority (CA) process that requires a password as an argument, click the Commands menu, and select Password Commands to display a box in which to enter the password. The password box masks the characters in the password with asterisks.
- Optional: To prevent the console from displaying the server output, click the Send menu and select Quiet Commands.
- To send the command only to the connected server, click Send.
To send the command to more than one server:
- If you entered a Controller command or shell command, enter
the following in the Login dialog box that opens:
- In the Server's Internet Address box, specify the TCP/IP host name of the server.
- In the User ID box, specify a name in your Person document in the Domino Directory on the server to which you are connecting.
- In the Password box, specify the password that is in the Internet password field of your Person document.
- Click OK.
- Optional: Do any of the following, as necessary:
- Click Live to display events as they happen on the remote server.
- Click Pause to pause output from the remote server.
- Click Stop to stop events as they happen on the screen.