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[global switches] <command>



The following global switches are available:

/NAMESPACE           Path for the namespace the alias operate against.

/ROLE                Path for the role containing the alias definitions.

/NODE                Servers the alias will operate against.

/IMPLEVEL            Client impersonation level.

/AUTHLEVEL           Client authentication level.

/LOCALE              Language id the client should use.

/PRIVILEGES          Enable or disable all privileges.

/TRACE               Outputs debugging information to stderr.

/RECORD              Logs all input commands and output.

/INTERACTIVE         Sets or resets the interactive mode.

/FAILFAST            Sets or resets the FailFast mode.

/USER                User to be used during the session.

/PASSWORD            Password to be used for session login.

/OUTPUT              Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/APPEND              Specifies the mode for output redirection.

/AGGREGATE           Sets or resets aggregate mode.

/AUTHORITY           Specifies the <authority type> for the connection.

/?[:<BRIEF|FULL>]    Usage information.



For more information on a specific global switch, type: switch-name /?





The following alias/es are available in the current role:

ALIAS                    - Access to the aliases available on the local system

BASEBOARD                - Base board (also known as a motherboard or system board) management.

BIOS                     - Basic input/output services (BIOS) management.

BOOTCONFIG               - Boot configuration management.

CDROM                    - CD-ROM management.

COMPUTERSYSTEM           - Computer system management.

CPU                      - CPU management.

CSPRODUCT                - Computer system product information from SMBIOS. 

DATAFILE                 - DataFile Management.  

DCOMAPP                  - DCOM Application management.

DESKTOP                  - User's Desktop management.

DESKTOPMONITOR           - Desktop Monitor management.

DEVICEMEMORYADDRESS      - Device memory addresses management.

DISKDRIVE                - Physical disk drive management. 

DISKQUOTA                - Disk space usage for NTFS volumes.

DMACHANNEL               - Direct memory access (DMA) channel management.

ENVIRONMENT              - System environment settings management.

FSDIR                    - Filesystem directory entry management. 

GROUP                    - Group account management. 

IDECONTROLLER            - IDE Controller management.  

IRQ                      - Interrupt request line (IRQ) management. 

JOB                      - Provides  access to the jobs scheduled using the schedule service. 

LOADORDER                - Management of system services that define execution dependencies. 

LOGICALDISK              - Local storage device management.

LOGON                    - LOGON Sessions.  

MEMCACHE                 - Cache memory management.

MEMORYCHIP               - Memory chip information.

MEMPHYSICAL              - Computer system's physical memory management. 

NETCLIENT                - Network Client management.

NETLOGIN                 - Network login information (of a particular user) management. 

NETPROTOCOL              - Protocols (and their network characteristics) management.

NETUSE                   - Active network connection management.

NIC                      - Network Interface Controller (NIC) management.

NICCONFIG                - Network adapter management. 

NTDOMAIN                 - NT Domain management.  

NTEVENT                  - Entries in the NT Event Log.  

NTEVENTLOG               - NT eventlog file management. 

ONBOARDDEVICE            - Management of common adapter devices built into the motherboard (system board).

OS                       - Installed Operating System/s management. 

PAGEFILE                 - Virtual memory file swapping management. 

PAGEFILESET              - Page file settings management. 

PARTITION                - Management of partitioned areas of a physical disk.

PORT                     - I/O port management.

PORTCONNECTOR            - Physical connection ports management.

PRINTER                  - Printer device management. 

PRINTERCONFIG            - Printer device configuration management.  

PRINTJOB                 - Print job management. 

PROCESS                  - Process management. 

PRODUCT                  - Installation package task management. 

QFE                      - Quick Fix Engineering.  

QUOTASETTING             - Setting information for disk quotas on a volume. 

RDACCOUNT                - Remote Desktop connection permission management.

RDNIC                    - Remote Desktop connection management on a specific network adapter.

RDPERMISSIONS            - Permissions to a specific Remote Desktop connection.

RDTOGGLE                 - Turning Remote Desktop listener on or off remotely.

RECOVEROS                - Information that will be gathered from memory when the operating system fails. 

REGISTRY                 - Computer system registry management.

SCSICONTROLLER           - SCSI Controller management.  

SERVER                   - Server information management. 

SERVICE                  - Service application management. 

SHADOWCOPY               - Shadow copy management.

SHADOWSTORAGE            - Shadow copy storage area management.

SHARE                    - Shared resource management. 

SOFTWAREELEMENT          - Management of the  elements of a software product installed on a system.

SOFTWAREFEATURE          - Management of software product subsets of SoftwareElement. 

SOUNDDEV                 - Sound Device management.

STARTUP                  - Management of commands that run automatically when users log onto the computer system.

SYSACCOUNT               - System account management.  

SYSDRIVER                - Management of the system driver for a base service.

SYSTEMENCLOSURE          - Physical system enclosure management.

SYSTEMSLOT               - Management of physical connection points including ports,  slots and peripherals, and proprietary connections points.

TAPEDRIVE                - Tape drive management.  

TEMPERATURE              - Data management of a temperature sensor (electronic thermometer).

TIMEZONE                 - Time zone data management. 

UPS                      - Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) management. 

USERACCOUNT              - User account management.

VOLTAGE                  - Voltage sensor (electronic voltmeter) data management.

VOLUME                   - Local storage volume management.

VOLUMEQUOTASETTING       - Associates the disk quota setting with a specific disk volume. 

VOLUMEUSERQUOTA          - Per user storage volume quota management.

WMISET                   - WMI service operational parameters management. 



For more information on a specific alias, type: alias /?



CLASS     - Escapes to full WMI schema.

PATH      - Escapes to full WMI object paths.

CONTEXT   - Displays the state of all the global switches.

QUIT/EXIT - Exits the program.



For more information on CLASS/PATH/CONTEXT, type: (CLASS | PATH | CONTEXT) /?

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