HP Storage Essentials V5.00.01 CLI guide (T4283-96015, January 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.00.01 CLI Guide 1
1Overview of the CLI
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, the Command Line Interface (CLI) may not be available.
See the "List of Features" to determine if you have access to the CLI. The "List of Features" is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
The CLI provides an alternate way for you to manage elements the management server monitors.
You can use the CLI commands in scripts to manage your storage. For example, you can use the
appiqlist -event -all command in a script to obtain a listing of the events.
IMPORTANT: Before you can use the CLI, you must install it. You can install it on the same server
running the management server or a remote server. Refer to the release notes for the version
requirements for more information on how to install the CLI. See ”Installing the CLI” on page 7.
Keep in mind the following:
• Before you can use the CLI interface, you must make a connection to the management server.
See the topic, ”Before Using the CLI” on page 2 for more information.
• When you enter a CLI command on Solaris or AIX, enter it in lowercase letters.
• If the UNIX shell environment variable $PATH is not set with the current directory, prefix the
command with ./ when running it on UNIX.
• If $PATH is set to include
/opt/APPQcli/bin, you can run the CLI commands from any directory.
• You can run the CLI commands anywhere as long as you provide the path to the bin directory:
• Microsoft Windows - C:\hp\CLI\bin
• UNIX - /opt/APPQcli/bin
CLI commands can do the following. This is a partial listing.
• Identify the following:
• Backup information
• Interconnects between the various components in the domain
• Detailed configuration of each component
• Capacity, performance, status and event information from each device and its components
• Information about zone, zone aliases and zone sets.
•Volume information
• Manage the following:
•Get Details
•Events
•LUNs