---
title: "calicoctl node"
description: "Reference overview of the calicoctl node subcommands in Calico Enterprise for managing the cnx-node container."
product: "Calico Enterprise"
version: "3.23 (latest)"
section: "Reference"
canonical_url: "https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/node/overview"
---

# calicoctl node

This section describes the `calicoctl node` commands.

Read the [calicoctl Overview](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/overview.md) for a full list of calicoctl commands.

Note that if you run `calicoctl` in a container, `calicoctl node ...` commands will not work (they need access to parts of the host filesystem).

## Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl node' commands

Run `calicoctl node --help` to display the following help menu for the commands.

```text
Usage:
  calicoctl node <command> [<args>...]

    run          Run the Calico node container image
    status       View the current status of a Calico node.
    diags        Gather a diagnostics bundle for a Calico node.
    checksystem  Verify the compute host is able to run a Calico node instance.

Options:
  -h --help      Show this screen.

Description:
  Node specific commands for calicoctl.  These commands must be run directly on
  the compute host running the Calico node instance.

  See 'calicoctl node <command> --help' to read about a specific subcommand.
```

## Node specific commands

Details on the `calicoctl node` commands are described in the documents linked below organized by sub command.

- [calicoctl node run](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/node/run.md)
- [calicoctl node status](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/node/status.md)
- [calicoctl node diags](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/node/diags.md)
- [calicoctl node checksystem](https://docs.tigera.io/calico-enterprise/latest/reference/clis/calicoctl/node/checksystem.md)