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Navigating, Managing, and Monitoring through the Service Console

Navigating, Managing, and Monitoring through the Service Console

First and foremost, getting around the service console is a critical skill for troubleshooting and managing ESX Server hosts when the traditional graphical tools are not available. The following commands are some of the common and basic commands for moving around a Linux-based operating system.

cd Used to change directories.

Example: #cd /vmfs/volumes

ls Used to list files and folders in the current directory.

Example: #ls

ls -l Used to list files and folders in a long format with rights and owners.

ls -s Used to list files and folders in a short format.

ls -R Used to list files and folders with the ability to scroll.

whoami Used to identify the effective user.

who am i Used to identify the currently logged-on user.

logout Used to log out the current user.

reboot Used to reboot a system.

adduser Used to add a new user.

Example: useradd newaccount

passwd Used to update a user account password.

Example: passwd newaccount

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