Presto-Admin Command-Line Options
A quick overview of the possible CLI options for presto-admin can be found via sudo ./presto-admin --extended-help. More details on those options can be found below.
| --version | Prints out the current presto-admin version and exits. |
| -h, --help | Prints out a usage string, the basic presto-admin options and the available commands, then exits. |
| -d, --display | Prints detailed information about a given command. e.g., to get detailed information about the server install command, enter: sudo ./presto-admin -d server install
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| --extended-help | |
| Prints out a usage string, all the presto-admin options and the available commands, then exits. | |
| -I, --initial-password-prompt | |
Forces password prompt before running any commands on the cluster. Either this option or the --password option is necessary if the user from /etc/opt/prestoadmin/config.json needs a password for sudo. Note that the SSH password and the sudo password must be the same, if passwordless SSH is not used. | |
| -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD | |
Sets password for use with authentication and/or sudo. Either this option or the --initial-password-prompt option is necessary if the user from /etc/opt/prestoadmin/config.json needs a password for sudo. Note that the SSH password and the sudo password must be the same, if passwordless SSH is not used. | |
| --abort-on-error | |
| Aborts the command, instead of warning, if a command fails on any node. The default for presto-admin is to warn if a command fails on any node. | |
| -a, --no_agent | Forces presto-admin not to seek out running SSH agents when using key-based authentication. |
| -A, --forward-agent | |
| Enables forwarding of a local SSH agent to the remote end. | |
| --colorize-errors | |
| Colorizes error output. | |
| -D, --disable-known-hosts | |
| Turns off loading of a user’s SSH known_hosts file. Disabling known_hosts leaves you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. However,in some environments like EC2, a particular host getting a different key should not mean that you are not able to connect via SSH to that host. | |
| -g HOST, --gateway=HOST | |
| Routes SSH connections through the SSH daemon on the specified gateway host to their final destination. | |
| -i PATH | Adds the SSH private key file specified by PATH to the set of keys to try during key-based SSH authentication. May be repeated. |
| -k, --no-keys | Disables loading private key files from ~/.ssh/. |
| --keepalive=N | Sends an SSH keepalive every N seconds to keep SSH from timing out. |
| -n M, --connection-attempts=M | |
| Makes M attempts to connect before giving up. The default number of attempts to try is 1. | |
| --port=PORT | Sets the SSH connection port. If the SSH port is set both in /etc/opt/prestoadmin/config.json and on the command line, the port specified on the command line will be used. |
| -r, --reject-unknown-hosts | |
| Aborts when a host is not in the user’s SSH known_hosts file. | |
| --system-known-hosts=SYSTEM_KNOWN_HOSTS | |
| Loads the given SSH known_hosts file before reading the user’s known_hosts file. | |
| -t N, --timeout=N | |
| Sets the network connection timeout to N seconds. The default is 10 seconds. | |
| -T N, --command-timeout=N | |
| Sets the timeout for the given remote command to N seconds. The default is to have no timeout. | |
| -u USER, --user=USER | |
| Sets the user that is used for SSH connections. If the SSH username is set both in /etc/opt/prestoadmin/config.json and on the command line, the username specified on the command line will be used. | |
| --serial | Switches to run the command in serial. The default is to run in parallel, because parallel mode is usually faster. However, if you want a password prompt while the command is running (without specifying -I or --initial-password-prompt), the --serial flag is necessary. |