6.2.6.2 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 (“).

Attention: 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.

Note: 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. 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: privilege should be one of the privilege names from the table above.