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Administering your instance using the GitHub CLI

You can administer your GitHub Enterprise Server instance using the GitHub CLI extension for GHES Manage API.

About the gh es extension for GitHub CLI

GitHub CLI is an open source tool for using GitHub from your computer's command line. When you're working from the command line, you can use the GitHub CLI to save time and avoid switching context. For more information about the GitHub CLI, see "About GitHub CLI".

gh es is a GitHub CLI extension that allows you to perform administrative tasks on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance by using the instance's REST API endpoints. For more information about GitHub CLI extensions, see "Using GitHub CLI extensions".

You can use the gh es extension to manage the root site administrator password, configure maintenance mode, view metadata and status information for your instance's nodes, and more. For installation and usage instructions, see the github/gh-es repository on GitHub.com.

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