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title: "Using the NIOS CLI"
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The Infoblox NIOS CLI <span style="color: #333333">(Command Line Interface) </span>allows you to configure and monitor the appliance from a remote console using a set of commands. Some administrative tasks, such as resetting the appliance, can be done only through the CLI. CLI commands do not support IDNs. These commands display IDN data in punycode only. For more information about IDN, see <span style="color: #0000ff">[*Multilingual Support*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/nios90/pages/280759058)</span>.

This section explains the CLI commands that you can use to configure and manage the NIOS appliance from a remote terminal. For the latest Infoblox documentation, visit the Infoblox Support web site at <span style="color: #0000ff">[*https://support.infoblox.com/*](https://support.infoblox.com/)</span>.

| **Topic** | **Content** |
| --- | --- |
| <span style="color: #000000">Overview</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Explains how to access the Infoblox CLI using a console port or SSHv2 client. This topic also describes the CLI conventions and outlines the basic CLI commands.</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">CLI Commands</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Explains the function and usage of each command, and provides an example of the command usage and expected results.</span> |

# Conventions

The conventions used in this section follow the Infoblox documentation style conventions, as listed in the following table.

| **Style** | **Usage** |
| --- | --- |
| `screen` | <span style="color: #000000">Indicates session text or system information displayed on the screen</span> |
| `boldface screen` | <span style="color: #000000">Signifies command line entries that you type.</span> |
| `italic screen` | <span style="color: #000000">Signifies variables that you enter for your configuration, such as file names and group names.</span> |

CLI syntax uses conventions that are unique to documenting command line tools. The following table provides a list of syntax delimiters and their meanings.

| **Item** | **Convention** |
| --- | --- |
| <span style="color: #000000">{ } </span><span style="color: #000000">brackets</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Indicates a mandatory feature.</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">[ ] </span><span style="color: #000000">brackets</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Indicates an optional feature.</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">| </span><span style="color: #000000">pipe symbol</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Indicates an “or” relationship between two features.</span> |

# Variables

Infoblox uses the following variables to represent the values of the configurations that exist on your appliance. You should substitute the variables with the actual values that match your site configuration.

| **Variable** | **Value** |
| --- | --- |
| <span style="color: #000000">admin_group</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Name of a group of administrators</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">admin_name</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Name of the appliance administrator</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">addr_range</span> | <span style="color: #000000">IP address range</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">domain_name</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Domain name</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">directory</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Directory name</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">dns_view</span> | <span style="color: #000000">DNS view</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">filter_name</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Filter name</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">grid_master</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Grid master</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">grid_member</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Grid member</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">hostname</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Host name of an independent appliance</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">id_grid</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Grid name</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">ip_addr</span> | <span style="color: #000000">IPv4 address</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">member</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Grid member name</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">netmask</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Subnet mask</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">network</span> | <span style="color: #000000">IP address of a network</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">numerical</span> | <span style="color: #000000">Numerical entry</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">zone</span> | <span style="color: #000000">DNS zone</span> |

The following is a list of commands that NIOS supports:

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