# CLI The command line interface as used by `maxadmin`. This is a variant of the debugcli that is built slightly differently so that it may be accessed by the client application `maxadmin`. The CLI requires the use of the `maxscaled` protocol. ## Configuration There are two components to the definition required in order to run the command line interface to use with MaxAdmin; a service and a listener. The default entries required are shown below. ``` [CLI] type=service router=cli [CLI Listener] type=listener service=CLI protocol=maxscaled socket=default ```