Command Line Reference

If you're working in a Telnet session or from the command line, you have 23 appliance commands available, several of which can be used with various parameters and values. These commands are listed in the table below.

Excelerator includes help for all commands and their associated arguments and parameters.

To see a list of commands, enter help at the command line.

To see a list of arguments for a command, enter help command.

To get help for a specific command/argument combination, enter help command argument.

Command	Function	Requires Arguments?
`add`	Adds the new value to the current value.	Yes
`apply`	Applies the changes made at the command line. Some changes require a system restart, some merely suspend proxying and then restart, and others do not interrupt any process.	No
`cancel`	Discards all changes that are pending since the last apply command.	No
`clear`	Removes all items from a list or all settings from an argument.	Yes
`clearscreen`	Clears the current screen.	No
`export`	Exports the named file.	Yes
`factorysettings`	Restores the appliance to original factory settings.	No
`get`	Displays current settings.	Yes
`Health`	Displays the appliance health status.	No
`Help`	Displays a list of available commands.	No
`identity`	Displays the appliance manufacturer, serial number, and hardware configuration.	No
`import`	Imports the named file.	Yes
`ping`	Sends a ping request to the addresses specified. Ports are optional.	Yes
`purgecache`	Purges the cache buffers.	No
`purgednscache`	Purges the DNS cache buffers. DNS requests for hostnames that fail to resolve are cached for a short time as negative lookups. IP Addresses used in place of hostnames are also cached.	No
`remove`	Deletes the specified value.	Yes
`reset learnedroutes`	Resets the internal router table when the appliance is acting as a router.	No
`restart`	Restarts the appliance. All proxying ceases until the system restarts.	No
`restorefromclones`	Replaces the current appliance image with the clone image.	No
`scan`	Rescans disk drives on the appliance.	No
`set`	Sets an option by executing a clear command followed by an add command. (Existing settings are cleared when the set command is used.)	Yes
`shutdown`	Shuts down the appliance. All functionality ceases.	No
`updateclones`	Replaces the clone image with the current appliance image.	No
`version`	Displays the current version.	No