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IVS Control Commands

These commands allow modification of the settings on the FileWave IVS (Imaging Virtual Server). These imaging-control commands require root authorization.

List of Imaging-Control commands

imaging-control networksetup static

imaging-control networksetup dhcp

imaging-control subnet add

imaging-control subnet remove

imaging-control increase harddrive

imaging-control list macimages

imaging-control list windowsimages

imaging-control disable macimaging

imaging-control disable windowsimaging

imaging-control enable macimaging

imaging-control enable windowsimaging

Configuring the IVS network interface

The FileWave IVS network is configured to use dhcp by default. This command has 2 options:

imaging-control networksetup static

This command will prompt for static ip information and configure the network interface to it

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imaging-control networksetup dhcp

This command will switch the IVS networking interface back to dhcp

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Configuring subnets on the IVS

The FileWave IVS will default to listening only on the subnet that it’s ip address is from.  This command can be used to add subnets for the IVS to listen to or remove subnets:

imaging-control subnet add

This command will prompt for a valid ip address from the subnet and the subnet mask

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imaging-control subnet remove

This command will display the subnets that the IVS is currently listening to and allow removal

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Increasing the IVS hard drive

imaging-control increase harddrive

This command will allow the virtual disk on the IVS to be increased.  The default size is 250gb.  This command will require that the IVS is first shutdown and the hard drive is expanded in the vm settings.

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Viewing list of images on IVS

These commands will list Mac and Windows images being hosted on the IVS currently

imaging-control list macimages

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imaging-control list windowsimages

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Configuring the IVS for Mac or Windows

The default settings on the IVS allow for Mac and Windows imaging.  These commands will allow you to disable/enable Mac or Windows imaging on the IVS.

imaging-control disable macimaging

This command disables Mac imaging on the IVS.

imaging-control disable windowsimaging

This command disables Windows imaging on the IVS.

imaging-control enable macimaging

This command enables Mac imaging on the IVS. (default setting)

imaging-control enable windowsimaging

This command enables Windows imaging on the IVS. (default setting)