netutil Command—Start Network Management Utility

The netutil command invokes the Net Management Utility, a forms-based program for configuring Ingres Net. This command allows any number of Ingres sites to be connected together in a single network.

The Net Management Utility allows you to store and manage the information—connection data and remote user authorizations—needed by the Communications Server and Bridge Server to connect to remote installations.

The netutil command has the following format:

netutil [-u user] [-vnode vnode] [–file filename{,filename}]

• -u user

  Specifies the effective user name for the session. When creating private connection information, the information will be stored for the specified user.

• -vnode vnode

  Identifies the name of the remote node on which the connection information is to be stored. This vnode name must have been configured previously through either the netutil or ingnet utility.

• -file filename{,filename}

  Operates netutil non-interactively. All statements in the specified control file are executed.

  When the input file name is specified as - (a single dash character), input is taken from the standard input channel. This allows the user to enter commands directly from the keyboard.

netutil Examples

This command edits private connection information for the user emma:

netutil -uemma

This command edits connection information for the previously defined node new_york:

netutil -vnode new_york

This command runs netutil in interactive mode, taking input from the keyboard, for the user emma on the remote node new_york:

netutil -uemma -vnode new_york -file-