Provided by: zonemaster-cli_6.0.3-1_all 
NAME
zonemaster-cli - run Zonemaster tests from the command line
SYNOPSIS
zonemaster-cli zonemaster.net
zonemaster-cli --test=delegation --level=info --no-time zonemaster.net
zonemaster-cli --test=delegation/delegation01 --level=debug zonemaster.net
zonemaster-cli --list_tests
DESCRIPTION
zonemaster-cli is a command-line interface to the Zonemaster test engine. It takes instructions the user
provides as command line arguments, transforms them into suitable API calls to the engine, runs the test
suite and prints the resulting messages. By default, the messages will be translated by the engine's
translation module, with the corresponding timestamp and logging level when printed. See the available
options below.
OPTIONS
-h -? --usage --help
Print the available command line switches, then exit.
--version
Print the versions of this program as well as the ones from the underlying Zonemaster test engine,
then exit.
--level=LEVEL
Specify the minimum level of a message to be printed. Messages with this level (or higher) will be
printed. The levels are, from highest to lowest: CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG,
DEBUG2 and DEBUG3. The lowest three levels (DEBUG) add a significant amount of messages to be shown.
They reveal some of the internal workings of the test engine, and are probably not useful for most
users.
Default: NOTICE
--locale=LOCALE
Specify which locale to be used by the translation system. If not given, the translation system
itself will look at environment variables to try and guess. If the requested translation does not
exist, it will fallback to the local locale, and if that doesn't exist either, to English.
--[no-]json
Print results as JSON instead of human language.
Default: off
--[no-]json_stream, --[no-]json-stream
Stream the results as JSON. Useful to follow the progress in a machine-readable way.
Default: off
--[no-]json_translate, --[no-]json-translate
Deprecated since v2023.1, use --no-raw instead.
For streaming JSON output, include the translated message of the tag.
--[no-]raw
Print messages as raw dumps (message identifiers) instead of translating them to human language.
--[no-]time
Print the timestamp for each message.
Default: on
--[no-]show_level, --[no-]show-level
Print the severity level for each message.
Default: on
--[no-]show_module, --[no-]show-module
Print the name of the module which produced the message.
Default: off
--[no-]show_testcase, --[no-]show-testcase
Print the name of the test case (test case identifier) which produced the message.
Default: off
--ns=NAME[/IP]
Provide information about a nameserver, for undelegated tests. The argument must be either: (i) a
domain name and an IP address, separated by a single slash character (/), or (ii) only a domain name,
in which case a A and AAAA records lookup for that name is done in the live global DNS tree (unless
overridden by --hints) and from which the results of that lookup will be used.
This switch can be given multiple times. As long as any of these switches are present, their
aggregated content will be used as the entirety of the parent-side delegation information.
--hints=FILENAME
Name of a root hints file to override the defaults.
--save=FILENAME
Write the contents of the accumulated DNS packet cache to a file with the given name after the
testing suite has finished running.
--restore=FILENAME
Prime the DNS packet cache with the contents from the file with the given name before starting the
testing suite. The format of the file should be from one produced by the --save switch.
--[no-]ipv4
Allow the sending of IPv4 packets.
Default: on
--[no-]ipv6
Allow the sending of IPv6 packets.
Default: on
--list_tests, --list-tests
Print all test cases listed in the test modules, then exit.
--test=MODULE, --test=MODULE/TESTCASE
Limit the testing suite to run only the specified tests. This can be the name of a testing module,
in which case all test cases from that module will be run, or the name of a module followed by a
slash and the name of a test case (test case identifier) in that module.
--stop_level=LEVEL, --stop-level=LEVEL
Specify the minimum severity level after which the testing suite is terminated. The levels are, from
highest to lowest: CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG, DEBUG2 and DEBUG3.
--profile=FILE
Override the Zonemaster Engine default profile data with values from the given profile JSON file.
--ds=KEYTAG,ALGORITHM,TYPE,DIGEST
Provide a DS record for undelegated testing (that is, a test where the delegating nameserver
information is given via --ns switches). The four pieces of data (keytag, algorithm, type, digest)
should be in the same format they would have in a zone file.
--[no-]count
Print a summary, at the end of a run, of the numbers of messages for each severity level that were
logged during the run.
Default: off
--[no-]progress
Print an activity indicator ("spinner"). Useful to know that something is happening during a run.
Default: on (if the process' standard output is a TTY)
--encoding=ENCODING
Specify the character encoding that is used for command line arguments. This will be used to convert
non-ASCII names to IDNA format, on which the testing suite will then be run.
The default value will be taken from the "LC_CTYPE" environment variable if possible, and set to
UTF-8 if not.
--nstimes
Print a summary, at the end of a run, of the times (in milliseconds) the zone's name servers took to
answer.
--dump_profile, --dump-profile
Print the effective profile used in JSON format, then exit.
--sourceaddr=IPADDR
Deprecated since v2023.1 (planned removal: v2024.1), use --sourceaddr4 and/or --sourceaddr6 instead.
Specify the source IP address used to send queries. Setting an IP address not correctly configured
on a local network interface causes cryptic error messages.
--sourceaddr4=IPADDR
Specify the source IPv4 address used to send queries. Setting an IPv4 address not correctly
configured on a local network interface fails silently. Can not be combined with --sourceaddr.
--sourceaddr6=IPADDR
Specify the source IPv6 address used to send queries. Setting an IPv6 address not correctly
configured on a local network interface fails silently. Can not be combined with --sourceaddr.
--[no-]elapsed
Print elapsed time (in seconds) at end of a run.
Default: off
PROFILES
The testing and result analysis performed by Zonemaster Engine is always guided by a profile. Zonemaster
Engine has a default profile with sensible defaults. Zonemaster CLI allows users to override the default
profile data with values from a profile JSON file with the "--profile" option. For details on profiles
and how they're respresented in files, see Zonemaster::Engine::Profile.
CONFIGURATION
If there is a readable file /etc/zonemaster/cli.args (Linux style), each line in that file will be
prepended as an argument on the command line. If no /etc/zonemaster/cli.args is found (or is not
readable) but /usr/local/etc/zonemaster/cli.args (FreeBSD style) is found and readable then that file
will be used instead. Only one global file is loaded.
If there is a readable file .zonemaster/cli.args in the user's home directory, it will be used in the
same way even when a global file has been loaded. Any argument in user's cli.args will override the same
argument in the global config file.
For example, if one would like to by default run with the log level set to DEBUG and with translation to
human-readable messages turned off, one could put this in the config file:
--raw
--level=DEBUG
Only one argument per line. If the argument has a value there must be a "=" between argument and value. A
line starting with "#" is a comment. Comments cannot be added on lines with arguments.
Any arguments actually given on the command line will override what is in any of the loaded config files.
SEE ALSO
Zonemaster
AUTHOR
Calle Dybedahl <calle@init.se> and others from the Zonemaster project
perl v5.36.0 2023-10-03 ZONEMASTER-CLI(1p)