The Dynamic Data Masking Server Control program is a command line interface that you use to manage Dynamic Data Masking Servers and services. Server Control reads administrative requests and writes the results of the requests to the standard system output and error streams.
Server Control has a set of commands that simplify management and configuration of local and remote Dynamic Data Masking Servers. Server Control is installed with the Dynamic Data Masking Server. Run Server Control on the machine where you installed the Dynamic Data Masking Server.
You can run the following types of commands from Server Control:
server
Use
server
commands to configure the local Dynamic Data Masking Server and Dynamic Data Masking services. For example, you can start and stop the Dynamic Data Masking Server and services, set the Dynamic Data Masking listener port, and view the Dynamic Data Masking Server version.
You can run the equivalents of the following Server Control server commands from shell scripts:
start
stop
restart
startDDMService
stopDDMService
restartDDMService
status
server config
Use
server config
commands to perform configuration tasks on local and remote Dynamic Data Masking Servers. For example, you can set Dynamic Data Masking database passwords, synchronize Dynamic Data Masking Server configurations, and export and import security rule sets and Dynamic Data Masking databases.
server service
Use
server service
commands to manage Dynamic Data Masking services. For example, you can import and export Dynamic Data Masking services.
Server Control stores information in the config.properties file. You must not modify the config.properties file.