Appliance CLI reference

Log in as admin on the console or over SSH and you land at the innovexus> prompt. It is a closed command set — there is no Linux shell behind it, by design.

$ ssh [email protected]

Innovexus appliance  v2026.08.25  —  type 'help' for commands

innovexus>

Session behavior. An idle session logs out after 15 minutes. Five wrong passwords lock the account for 15 minutes (recovery paths if it’s truly lost). One-shot use works too: ssh admin@<fqdn> show status runs a single command and exits — handy for monitoring scripts.

show — inspect the appliance

Command	What it shows
`show version`	Appliance software version, hostname, uptime.
`show status`	Every service with its state (running / initiating / failed / stopped) and whether the web UI actually answers. The first thing to run when something is wrong — how to read it.
`show network`	Interfaces, addresses, routes, DNS in use.
`show hostname`	System hostname and configured FQDN.
`show time`	Clock, timezone, NTP servers and sync state (details).
`show certificate`	The HTTPS certificate being served: subject, validity, SHA-256 fingerprints of the leaf and root CA.
`show setup`	The saved first-boot answers (secrets excluded).
`show logs [service] [n]`	Last n lines (default 50) of a service log, e.g. `show logs nginx 100`.
`show disk`	Filesystem usage and unallocated disk space.
`show tech`	Everything above in one dump — attach it to a support case: `ssh admin@<fqdn> show tech > tech.txt`

configure — change the appliance identity

Command	What it does
`configure network`	Re-runs network setup (DHCP / static IP, gateway, DNS). Stops the web UI while it runs.
`configure hostname`	Changes the FQDN. Re-check the certificate afterwards — the name and the cert must agree (TLS).
`configure tls`	Re-issue or import the HTTPS certificate.
`configure ntp`	Change NTP servers and the timezone — applies live, no service restart.
`configure all`	Walks the complete first-boot wizard again, with previous answers replayed.

application — service control

innovexus> application status
SERVICE                            STATE       DETAIL
nginx                              running     since 2026-08-25 09:47:04
postgresql                         running     since 2026-08-25 09:47:10
innovexus-flask                    running     since 2026-08-25 09:47:10
innovexus-next                     running     since 2026-08-25 09:47:10
…
--- web ui
https listener :443   open (nginx is accepting connections)
local page probe      HTTP 307 — the application is answering
web ui                running

application start, stop and restart control the Innovexus services (not the operating system) and print the resulting status table so you immediately see what came up. See Status & troubleshooting for what each state means.

backup — snapshots and export

Command	What it does
`backup status`	Lists the nightly snapshots held on the appliance (newest first, 14 kept).
`backup now`	Takes a snapshot immediately; the application keeps running.
`backup export`	Stages the newest snapshot for download over SCP. Full walkthrough: Backups & export.

storage — disk space

Command	What it does
`show disk`	Filesystem usage for the system disk, the encrypted application volume and the image store, plus how much of the virtual disk is still unallocated.
`storage extend`	Grows the system filesystem, online, into any unallocated disk space. Use it after enlarging the appliance’s virtual disk in vSphere / Workstation / Hyper-V: the partition, LVM physical volume and root volume are each extended to the maximum available. Nothing is shrunk; no reboot needed.

Accounts & recovery

Command	What it does
`password`	Change this CLI administrator’s password.
`web-admin list`	List the web application’s administrator accounts.
`web-admin reset`	Break-glass reset of a web administrator’s password (and optionally a lost security-key requirement) — walkthrough.
`recovery-key status`	Is an administrator recovery key set, and since when?
`recovery-key regenerate`	Issue a new recovery key — shown once, record it. The old key stops working.

Diagnostics & power

Command	What it does
`ping <host>`	ICMP reachability, 4 probes.
`nslookup <name>`	Resolve a name with the configured DNS.
`traceroute <host>`	Network path to a host.
`clear`	Clear the screen.
`reboot` / `halt`	Reboot or power off the appliance (asks for confirmation).
`exit`	Log out.

What the CLI deliberately cannot do

No shell, no file access, no package installs — the operating system is not an administration surface on this product.
Input is never interpreted by a shell: pipes, ;, globs and path tricks are just invalid command text.
Product configuration (users, policies, integrations) lives in the web UI, not here.