6.2.6.1 Legal Characters in the RLM Options File

In general, all options file fields are white-space delimited, meaning that no data item can contain embedded spaces, tabs, newlines or carriage returns. In addition, the following four characters are illegal in data items in the ISV or RLM options (and license) file: “<“, ”>“, “&”, and double-quote (“).

Note that all lines in option files (RLM or ISV) as well as license files must be shorter than 1024 characters. Anything over 1024 characters will be truncated.

The ACTIVATE option controls whether the “Activate License” button is present, and, if present, the default activation URL and ISV name.

There is one additional option available in the ISV options file: NO_OLD_RLMUTIL. This option goes on a line by itself, with no parameters. If specified, the RLM command-line utilities prior to RLM v9.0 will not be able to perform an rlmdown, rlmreread, or rlmremove on this server. By default, all versions of the RLM utilities are enabled unless NO_OLD_RLMUTIL is specified in both the RLM and the ISV options files.

Note that everything in the RLM options file is case-insensitive.

In the following example RLM options file, status commands are only allowed from hosts on subnet 172.16.7.*, no one on host “excluded_host” can do a reread command, and only users on IP address 172.16.7.93 can do a shutdown. Note that each command (INCLUDE, EXCLUDE, etc) must be on a separate line. Also, RLM will not process reread or shutdown requests from pre-v9 command-line utilities.

NO_OLD_RLMUTIL

INCLUDE status internet 172.16.7.*

EXCLUDE reread host excluded_host

INCLUDE shutdown internet 172.16.7.93

For a detailed description of each option, see the section below. Note that privilege should be one of “status”, “shutdown”, “reread”, “edit_options”, or “edit_rlm_options”.