Administrative tasks for a Stardust runtime environment can be performed either with the Administration Perspective in the Stardust Portal or with the Stardust command line tools like the Sysconsole and the Console command.
Especially in the case of in-production scenarios where script-based performing is required, Stardust allows to perform these tasks on the command line. Such administrative tasks include
Whereas the Stardust Administration Perspective is a Web Application, command line tools are console applications and will be started from the command console.
The Stardust command line tools are batch programs installed in the bin
directory of your Stardust installation. There are two console utilities
provided with the file suffix .bat for the MS Windows platform and the
suffix .sh for UNIX systems, respectively
sysconsole.bat / sysconsole.sh andconsole.bat / console.sh.For both tools help can be invoked to display a list of accepted commands and arguments.
Each tool follows the same command pattern:
> console [global-options] command [options]
One of the most important commands for first time users is help, which gives you the facility to get direct help to every command or option. The following table will give you an idea of the help functionality:
| Usage | Explanation |
|---|---|
sysconsole help |
Help for the application |
sysconsole help -s |
Gives a summary of all available commands |
sysconsole help -o |
Gives a summary of all global options |
sysconsole help -c
[command] |
Help for a specific command including
all options of the command, e.g. sysconsole help -c dropschema. |