Reference Guide

Where:
• CLI> — The command prompt where you type the command
• <main_menu> — The name of the main menu
• <submenu(s)> —The name of one or more submenus (separated with a space). Certain menus have
multiple levels of submenus.
• <command> — The name of the command that you want to execute
• <argument(s)> — The arguments (separated with a space) that you must enter with the command
to execute the command successfully. You may have none or multiple arguments depending on the
command that you want to execute. You must enter the arguments for a command in the correct
order.
• <option(s)> — The options (separated with a space) that you have available for a command. You
may have none or multiple options depending on the command that you want to execute and you
may need to enter at least one of the available options for the command to execute successfully.
Each option for a command must be preceded by a hyphen (-).
Navigating the CLI
When navigating the CLI, the following commands are available throughout the system:
• back — Moves back one level in the menu hierarchy
• main — Returns to the main menu
• help — Lists information about currently available menus, commands, arguments, and options
• history — Lists previously executed commands
• exit or quit — Exits the CLI
• find — Lists menus and commands containing the text you supply
Entering Commands in the CLI
There are two ways to enter commands in the CLI:
• Enter a command by navigating one menu at a time
• Enter a single line command
Tab completion is available in the CLI. You can press the Tab key to automatically complete a menu,
submenu, command, or option name after entering a unique portion of the name. This can be useful in
completing long commands. For example, entering net and then pressing Tab is the same as entering
networking. If there are several items that begin with those characters, the CLI displays the possibilities.
For example, entering NAS-volumes n and then pressing Tab displays NAS-pool and NFS-exports.
Press Tab again to see the available submenus, commands, and options under the given string. For
example, entering events and then pressing Tab twice displays the available events commands: list
and view.
The CLI also lets you abbreviate a command if the abbreviation uniquely identifies the command. For
example, the following commands are identical: events list and events li.
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