Environmental Influences on Command Syntax
There are variations in the action of the control program, depending on whether commands are entered from the system prompt or from within the control program. For example, entering the annotation field of profile elements from the system prompt allows you to include internal spaces in an annotation.
| Function | At System Prompt | Inside Control Program |
| Strings within quotation marks | Supported | Not required |
| Wildcard substitution | Supported | Unsupported |
Some UNIX systems require that you put an escape symbol (\) before string binding delimiters such as brackets ([ ]) or that you put the delimiters within quotation marks (' ' or " ") at the system prompt.
The following table describes the scope of the RPC control program commands.
| Scope | Command |
| All entries | add entry |
| remove entry | |
| show entry | |
| Server entry | export |
| import | |
| show server | |
| unexport | |
| Group | add member |
| remove group | |
| remove member | |
| show group | |
| Profile | add element |
| remove element | |
| remove profile | |
| show profile | |
| Endpoint map | add mapping |
| remove mapping | |
| show mapping |