RE: emcli Confusion

Yes, I was copying it originally from a webpage, then a word doc. I really hate it when word in particular is “helpful”. It does the same thing with single quotes.

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From: Andy Wattenhofer <watt0012_at_umn.edu> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 3:36 PM To: Scott Canaan <srcdco_at_rit.edu>
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Subject: Re: emcli Confusion

It really looks to me like the '-' (hyphen) character in your command line is actually a '–' (dash). Are you copying the commands from a web page or a Word doc? Some page formatting software tries to be cute and convert hyphens to dashes for you.

Here's my own test to confirm:

• with a dash:
  [andy_at_dbm ~]$ emcli login –username=larry
  Syntax Error: Too many positional arguments
  • "–username=larry"
• with a hyphen:
  [andy_at_dbm ~]$ emcli login -username=larry
  Enter password

Andy

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 1:43 PM Scott Canaan <srcdco_at_rit.edu<mailto:srcdco_at_rit.edu>> wrote: I’m looking at upgrading Cloud Control from 13.4 to 13.5 on Red Hat 8. One of the steps is to enable auditing of “Delete Target” in emcli. The instructions say to do the following:

emcli update_audit_settings
 –operations_to_enable=”DELETE_TARGET”  –audit_switch=”ENABLE”

I’ve tried doing this all on one line:

emcli update_audit_settings –operations_to_enable=”DELETE_TARGET” –audit_switch=”ENABLE”

and I get the following error:

oracle_at_dbmon06:OMS_HOME>able=”Delete Target” –audit_switch=”ENABLE” < Syntax Error: Too many positional arguments

• "–operations_to_enable=”Delete" "Target”" "–audit_switch=”ENABLE”"

I’ve tried doing it on three lines, as above and as I see it in all the documentation, but get the following:

oracle_at_dbmon06:OMS_HOME>emcli update_audit_settings –operations_to_enable=”DELETE_TARGET” –audit_switch=”ENABLE”
Successfully updated the audit settings. oracle_at_dbmon06:OMS_HOME>
-ksh: –operations_to_enable=”DELETE_TARGET”: invalid variable name oracle_at_dbmon06:OMS_HOME>–audit_switch=”ENABLE” -ksh: –audit_switch=”ENABLE”: invalid variable name

And when I check the settings, Delete Target isn’t set.

How am I supposed to do this?

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