Users Guide

● Used with: smart, mount subcommands
● Specify the -locationroot= parameter with a drive letter or mount point. The locationroot represents a tree of all
the mount points needed to mount every volume in the Smart Copy.
● If any path variables contain embedded spaces, you must enclose the variable in quotation marks ("").
newname=
● Used with: modifycollection subcommand
● Specifies a new collection name. This name must be valid and not be identical to another existing collection name. If a
collection is renamed, and Smart Copies and Schedules of the collection will be updated to refer to the renamed collection.
Schedule names will not be automatically modified, but can be changed by selecting the Modify Schedule option for the
affected schedule.
NoEmail
● Used with: smart, verify, delete, restore, selectiverestore, unmount, and mount subcommands
● Specifying this parameter will ensure that you do not receive an email notification when alerts are triggered. This parameter
is set by default for delete, restore, selectiverestore, unmount, and mount subcommands. To receive an email
notification for these subcommands, specify the email parameter.
nosignatureupdate
● Used with: breaksmartcopy subcommand
● Specifying this parameter will only reset the volume attributes (HIDDEN, READONLY, SHADOWCOPY, and
NO_DEFAULT_DRIVE_LETTER), and not the disk signature.
NOTE: If you do not specify this parameter, both the disk signature and the volume attributes will be reset.
objectID=
● Used with: smart, mount, unmount, restore, properties, delete, and selectiveRestore subcommands
● Specify the ‑objectID= parameter with an object identifier for an existing object. Use the ‑list command to display
object identifiers.
For example:
ASMCLI ‑list ‑volumes ‑collections ‑components ‑showObjectID
● Depending on the operation that you want to perform, specify one of the following parameter values:
○ Volume Operations — Specify a PS Series volume identifier (Ps Vol ID). A volume identifier has the following format:
Psv{hex‑string} For example:
Psv{18a09060‑3be0‑3fa8‑0a7a‑e4120000e045;32256}
You can obtain the Ps Vol ID from the ASM/ME GUI Volumes node by browsing an individual volume’s properties.
Alternatively, use the following command to display the Ps Vol ID for all supported volumes:
ASMCLI ‑list ‑volumes ‑showobjectid
○ Application Component Operations — Specify a component name. A component name has the following format:
Component{hex‑string }. For example:
Component{38951b83‑4249‑4a16‑8962‑563d8de79c92}
You can obtain the component name from the ASM/ME GUI Applications node by browsing an individual component’s
properties.
Alternatively, use the following command to display all component names:
ASMCLI ‑list ‑components ‑showobjectid
○ Collection Operations — Specify a collection name. A collection name has the following format:
Collection {ascii_string} For example:
Using the Command Line Interface
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