Illumio Administration Guide 26.x (SaaS)

The Illumio PCE control interface illumio-pce-ctl is a command-line tool for performing key tasks for operating your PCE cluster, such as starting and stopping nodes, setting cluster runlevels, and checking the cluster status.

The PCE includes other command-line utilities used to set up and operate your PCE:

The PCE control interface can only be executed by the PCE runtime user (ilo-pce), which is created during the PCE RPM installation.

Control Command Access with

/usr/bin

For easier command execution, PCE installation creates softlinks in /usr/bin by default for the Illumio PCE control commands. The /usr/bin directory is usually included by default in the PATH environment variable in most Linux systems. When your PATH does not include /usr/bin, add it to your PATH with the following command. You might want to add this command to your login files ($HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.cshrc).

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin

Syntax of

illumio-pce-ctl

To make it simpler to run the PCE command-line tools, you can run the following Linux softlink commands or add them to your PATH environment variable.

$ cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s /opt/illumio-pce/illumio-pce-ctl ./illumio-pce-ctl
sudo ln -s /opt/illumio-pce/illumio-pce-db-management ./illumio-pce-db-management 
sudo ln -s /opt/illumio-pce/illumio-pce-env ./illumio-pce-env

After these commands are executed, you can run the PCE command-line tools using the following syntax:

sudo -u ilo-pce illumio-pce-ctl sub-command --option

Where:

sub-command is an argument displayed by illumio-pce-ctl --help.