The Command Line Interface allows users to interact with the LoadMaster using a command line shell or a menu-based series of options.

If you have a hardware LoadMaster, you will need a PC to connect using a COM+ (Console) port with a terminal emulation application, or a standard VGA and keyboard. Use a null modem cable (reversal) to connect the COM+ port to the LoadMaster COM port on the rear of the unit.

The COM+ settings should be 115200,8,N,1.

Starting with LoadMaster Version 7.2.47, it is possible to connect directly to the LoadMaster serial console in all cloud deployments that support direct serial console access (AWS, for example, currently does not provide direct access to the console). Access to the console allows you to use the CLI and to reset the 'bal' administrative password, as explained in this document. [In previous releases, cloud users could only use the CLI over SSH, and could not use the console to reset the administrative password.]