SAND CDBMS Administration Guide
The SAND Enterprise Service Scripting Language

SAND Enterprise Scripting Clients

There are two programs that can be used to execute SAND Enterprise Service script commands: sescmd (Windows: sescmd.cmd ), which permits execution of scripts comprising one or more commands, and sesop (Windows: sesop.cmd), which is intended for interactive execution of single commands.

sescmd

The sescmd command connects to the SAND Enterprise Service and establishes an environment for execution of the SAND Enterprise script commands described below.

Syntax:

sescmd [-hostname host-name] [-port port-number] [-domain domain-name] [user-name[/password]] < script-file [> output-file]

Parameters:

host-name	Network ID name of the computer on which the SAND Enterprise Service is running
port-number	Port on which the SAND Enterprise Service is set to listen
user-name	A valid user on host-name; this account will be used to administer the service
domain-name	Windows network domain to which user-name belongs; if the network does not support domains, this can be omitted
script-file	Name of a file containing SAND Enterprise Service script commands
output-file	Name of an optional file to which SAND Enterprise Service output will be written

If the command is issued with no connection parameters, sescmd will attempt to connect using previously specified connection information in the following way:

• First, sescmd will use the connection parameters previously specified with sescmd and then saved using the SAVE command. This information is recorded in encrypted form in the [nesop] section of the nes.ini file.
  
  
• If no connection information has been previously saved, sescmd will use the parameters specified during SAND Enterprise Service installation. In this case, the user name and password must be included in the sescmd invocation.
  

Once a connection to the SAND Enterprise Service has been successfully established, sescmd will execute the commands contained in the specified script file. Sescmd writes program output to stdout, and this output can be redirected to a file using the standard redirection operator ( > ).

Note:
In SAND Enterprise Service scripts, the number sign ( # ) indicates that the line following is a comment.

If a connection is not successfully established by means of the sescmd command, the CONNECT command can be used to connect to the SAND Enterprise Service.

sesop

The sesop command connects to the SAND Enterprise Service using the saved connection parameters previously specified with sescmd, executes a specified command, then automatically disconnects. If no connection parameters have been previously saved, an error will be returned when executing sesop.

Syntax:

sesop command