lc Command Reference

Introduction

The lc executable provides a command-line interface to interact with a Lumina server and its contents.

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Virtually, all the commands described in this document require administrator rights; "regular" users will typically not have the necessary privileges.

Command-line options

-h, --host HOSTNAME[:PORT] Lumina host name and port (if port is omitted, it defaults to 443)

-u USERNAME specify username

-p PASSWORD specify password

-v, --verbose verbose output

In order to connect to a Lumina server, lc must at least be provided with a hostname and a valid user-password pair.

In order to keep the various commands' syntax as clear as possible, we will omit the login options from commands for the rest of this manual.

Other options exists, specific to each lc command (see Commands).

Commands

The following commands are accepted by lc:

Operating with metadata

Commands in this section let users view metadata stored in the Lumina server and their history.

hist show

hist show [OPTION]

Queries history of changes for function(s).

The following informations will be displayed for each change:

  • The ID of the change

  • The timestamp of the change

  • The ID of the push that contains the change

  • The name of the function at that change (+ (*) if it has been modified past this change)

  • optional: The username of the user that pushed this change

  • optional: The name of the license associated with the push for this change

  • optional: The email of the license associated with the push for this change

  • optional: The ID of the license associated with the push for this change

  • optional: The ID of the function

  • optional: The effective address (EA) of the function in the input file for the change

  • optional: The hash of the function

  • optional: The path of the idb file where the change came from

  • optional: The hash of the file where the change came from

  • optional: The path of the file where the change came from

TIP: Wildcards can be used to facilitate the usage of options that take strings as input. See the appendix.

Options:

Short form
Long form
Description

-a

--additional-fields LIST

Comma-delimited list of additional info to display (username, license_name, license_email, license_id, func_id, func_ea, calcrel_hash, idb_path, input_hash, input_path, all)

-d

--details

Show details (diff-like) for each change

None

--chronological

Display entries in chronological order (defaults to reverse-chronological).

-m

--max-entries NUMBER

maximum number of entries to fetch (defaults to 100)

-l

--license-id LICENSE

license ID (XX-XXXX-XXXX-XX format) to operate on

-r

--history-id-range RANGE

history ID range(s) to operate on (start0..end0 [...])

-t

--time-range RANGE

time range to operate on (start..end) see the appendix

-i

--idb IDB

IDB name(s) to operate on

-f

--input FILE

input file(s) to operate on

-u

--username USERNAME

username(s) to operate on

-n

--func NAME

function name(s) to operate on

-h

--input-hash HASH

input file hash(es) to operate on

-p

--pushes-id-range RANGE

Pushes ID range(s) to operate on (start0..end0 [...])

-c

--calcrel-hash HASH

function hash(es) to operate on

None

--last-change

Select only the last change for a function (which speeds up execution)

Examples:


hist pushes

hist pushes [OPTION]

Shows pushes to the Lumina server.

Options:

Short form
Long form
Description

-a

--additional-fields LIST

Comma-delimited list of additional info to display (license_name, license_email, license_id, all)

-t

--time-range TIMESTAMP

timestamp

-u

--username USERNAME

username(s) to operate on

-l

--license-id LICENSE

license ID (XX-XXXX-XXXX-XX format) to operate on

-m

--max-entries NUMBER

maximum number of entries to operate on (defaults to 100)

None

--chronological

Display entries in chronological order (defaults to reverse-chronological).

Examples:


hist del

hist del [OPTION]

Deletes history and metadata for functions.

Options:

Short form
Long form
Description

-s

--silent

Do not ask for confirmation before deleting history

-l

--license-id LICENSE

license ID (XX-XXXX-XXXX-XX format) to operate on

-r

--history-id-range RANGE

history ID range(s) to operate on (start0..end0 [...])

-t

--time-range RANGE

time range to operate on (start..end) see the appendix

-i

--idb IDB

IDB name(s) to operate on

-f

--input FILE

input file(s) to operate on

-u

--username USERNAME

username(s) to operate on

-n

--func NAME

function name(s) to operate on

-h

--input-hash HASH

input file hash(es) to operate on

-p

--pushes-id-range RANGE

Pushes ID range(s) to operate on (start0..end0 [...])

-c

--calcrel-hash HASH

function hash(es) to operate on

None

--last-change

Select only the last change for a function (which speeds up execution)

Examples:


Various information

info

info

Shows Lumina connection information.

Example:


users

users

Shows users.

Example:


stats

stats [OPTION]

Shows the numbers of functions, pushes, history records, IDBs and input files stored in the Lumina server database.

Options:

Short form
Long form
Description

-u

--username USERNAME

username(s) to operate on

Examples:


Administrative commands

These commands require that the user executing them has admin privileges.

Managing users

User management will depend whether the Lumina server is configured to work with its own set of users, or delegating user management to the Teams server.

In the latter case, you should use the hv command-line tool to administer the Teams server.

Locally managing users

The following commands allow the administrator to manipulate users known to the Lumina server (provided of course the Lumina server doesn't delegate users management to the Teams server)

user add

user add USERNAME EMAIL IS_ADMIN LICENSE_ID

Adds a user.

The passwd command must be used after creating a user; otherwise the new user will not be able to login to the Lumina server and use it.

USERNAME

The username of the user.

EMAIL

The email address of the user.

IS_ADMIN

Should be 1 if the user is admin, otherwise 0.

LICENSE_ID

The license of the user.

Example:


user edit

user edit USERNAME EMAIL IS_ADMIN LICENSE_ID

Edits a user definition.

USERNAME

The username of the user to modify.

EMAIL

The email address of the user.

IS_ADMIN

Should be 1 if the user is admin, otherwise 0.

LICENSE_ID

The license of the user.

Example:


user del

user del USERNAME EMAIL LICENSE_ID

Deletes a user.

USERNAME

The name of the user to delete.

EMAIL

The email address of the user.

LICENSE_ID

The license of the user.

Example:


passwd

passwd PASS USER

Modifies the password for a user.

PASS

The new password.

USER

The username whose password should be changed Only admins can change other users' passwords.

Example:


Managing sessions

session list

session list

Lists the current connections to the Lumina server. For each connection, the currently executed query (if any) is shown. For each connection, the currently executed query (if any) is shown.

Example:


session kill

session kill ID

Kills an existing connection to the Lumina server.

ID

The connection to kill, as shown by the <<cmd_session-list>> command

Example:


Commands

String patterns

Options that take strings as inputs can be enhanced through wildcards. The following wildcards are available:

% represents zero, one or multiple characters.

_ represents one character.

To use wildcards in a string, it must be prefixed with like: e.g. -n like:%main%.

Timerange formats

For timeranges, the following syntaxes are supported:

  • <ts>..<ts> (from timestamp to (but not including) timestamp)

  • <ts> (only one timestamp)

Where <ts> can be of the form:

  • yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS: e.g., 2022-09-12 11:38:22

  • yyyy-mm-dd: e.g., 2020-03-12

  • +|-<count><unit>: this is a "now-relative" timestamp, where <unit> must be one of w, d, H, M, S for weeks, days, hours, minutes or seconds respectively. E.g., -4d, +5w, -8H, +1H, …​

when using the <ts> syntax (i.e., only 1 timestamp is provided, not an actual range), the final range will be either "from now to <ts>", or "from <ts> to now", depending on whether <ts> is before, or after, the present time.

Speed of retrieving changes

Although it may seem like a simple operation, lc hist show is actually a very demanding one: by default it will have to fetch bits of information from multiple tables (e.g., in order to provide information about which change was superseded by a later one.)

This can be significantly sped up through the use of --last-change: this option lets the server issue a much simpler query, resulting in significantly reduced processing time.

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