Installing NICE DCV Session Manager Command Line Interface - NICE DCV Session Manager
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Installing NICE DCV Session Manager Command Line Interface

This section describes how to install the NICE DCV Session Manager command line interface (CLI) on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Prerequisites for installing NICE DCV Session Manager CLI

This section includes prerequisites for installing NICE DCV Session Manager CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Linux and macOS
  • Python version 3.6 or later.

  • Ability to extract or unzip a downloaded, compressed file. If your operating system doesn't have the built-in unzip command, use an equivalent.

Windows
  • Python version 3.6 or later.

  • Python must be properly set in the PATH environment variable to run NICE DCV Session Manager CLI using the startup script.

Installing NICE DCV Session Manager CLI

This section describes the process to install NICE DCV Session Manager CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Linux and macOS
To Install NICE DCV Session Manager CLI on Linux and macOS
  1. Download the zipped package from the NICE DCV website.

  2. Unzip the downloaded package. If your Linux distribution doesn't have a built-in unzip command, use an equivalent to unzip it. The following example command unzips the package and creates a directory that's named nice-dcv-session-manager-cli-1.0.0-37 under the current directory.

    $ unzip nice-dcv-session-manager-cli-1.0.0-37.zip
  3. To validate the content of the zip file, run the following command inside the folder extracted in the previous step:

    ./dcvsm --version
Windows NICE DCV server
To install NICE DCV Session Manager CLI on Windows
  1. Download the zipped package from the NICE DCV website.

  2. Unzip the downloaded package.

  3. To validate the content of the zip file, run the following command:

    C:\> dcvsm --version