HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.3.1-00 CLI Reference Guide

Inputting requests from XML documents

CAUTION:

To use the XML-API CLI feature, you need thorough knowledge of XML-API, and need to take great

care in formulating commands.

Rather than specifying the command and parameters from the command line, the request can originate

from a file. The file must contain a valid XML document in the correct form for a Device Manager

request. The command line option -i or --input specifies the input file. The other options are still

valid. However, any command or parameter specified from the command line or in the properties

file is ignored, because that information is already in the XML document.

The -i <file-name> option allows you to specify an xml message file. You can use this feature to

request multiple operations from the CLI command, which can save considerable time.

For example, usually the AddLun command specifies creation of a single LUN. The AddLun XML-API

allows you to create multiple LUNs with a single request.

Syntax:

hdvmcli [-t] AddLun

serialnum=serial-number model=model

port=port-number domain=domain-ID

scsi=SCSI-ID lun=valid-LUN devnum=device-number

From the command line, specify the -t option and the AddLUN command as follows, and then execute

hdvmcli.

hdvmcli -t AddLun

serialnum=15045 model=XP1024/XP128

port=0 domain=0 scsi=15 lun=100 devnum=1

The XML-API request that follows the AddLUN command executed by using hdvmcli is output to the

message destination file (MessageTrace.log).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

</StorageArray>

</Add>

</StorageManager>

</Request>

</HiCommandServerMessage>

Create a file by specifying multiple LUNs as follows:

Properties file406