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node-red-admin
Advanced tools
The Node-RED admin command line interface.
A command line tool for remotely administering Node-RED.
It is built into node-red
and can be run as:
node-red admin ....
Install this globally to make the node-red-admin
command available on your path:
npm install -g node-red-admin
Note: you may need to run this with sudo
, or from within an Administrator command shell.
You may also need to add --unsafe-perm
to the command if you hit permissions errors during installation.
Usage:
node-red-admin <command> [args] [--help] [--userDir DIR] [--json]
Description:
Node-RED command-line client
Commands:
target - Set or view the target URL and port like http://localhost:1880
login - Log user in to the target of the Node-RED admin API
list - List all of the installed nodes
info - Display more information about the module or node
enable - Enable the specified module or node set
disable - Disable the specified module or node set
search - Search for Node-RED modules to install
install - Install the module from NPM to Node-RED
remove - Remove the NPM module from Node-RED
hash-pw - Creates a hash to use for Node-RED settings like "adminAuth"
By default, the tool stores its configuration in ~/.node-red/.cli-config.json
. You
can specify a different directory for the config file using the --userDir
argument.
The --json
option causes the tool to format its output as JSON making it suitable
for scripting.
4.0.0
FAQs
The Node-RED admin command line interface
The npm package node-red-admin receives a total of 14,123 weekly downloads. As such, node-red-admin popularity was classified as popular.
We found that node-red-admin demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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