Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge RAID Controller Command Line Interface Reference Guide
- Contents
- Overview
- Accessing the command prompt
- Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool
- System commands
- Controller commands
- Drive commands
- Virtual drives commands
- Add virtual drives commands
- Delete virtual drives commands
- Delete non-RAID disks
- Virtual drive show commands
- Preserved cache commands
- Change virtual drive properties commands
- Virtual drive initialization commands
- Virtual drive erase commands
- Virtual drive migration commands
- Virtual drive consistency check commands
- Background initialization commands
- Foreign configurations commands
- BIOS-related commands
- Drive group commands
- BBU commands
- Enclosure commands
- PHY commands
- Logging commands
- PERC CLI command examples
- Getting a complete list of CLI commands
- Checking controller availability
- Viewing controllers
- Viewing free space information
- Viewing disk1 information
- Viewing controller, virtual disk, and drivers information
- Checking for preserved cache
- Deleting preserved cache
- Viewing expansion information
- Viewing expansion size
- Viewing the foreign configuration
- Importing the foreign configuration
- Viewing BBU information
- Viewing physical drive details for the specified slot in the controller
- Viewing the boot drive for the controller
- Setting virtual drive as boot drive
- Locating a drive
- Stopping a locate operation
- Snapdump commands
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
NOTE: You cannot set multiple properties with a single command.
The generalized syntax for show controller properties command is as follows:
perccli /cx show <property>
This command shows the current value of the specified property on the specified controller.
General example output:
Status Code = 0
Status = Success
Description = None
Controller: 0
Property_name = Property_value
You can show the following properties using the perccli /cx show <property1>|<property2> command.
NOTE: /cx specifies the controller where x is the controller index.
perccli /cx show abortcconerror
perccli /cx show activityforlocate
perccli /cx show backplane
perccli /cx show badblocks
perccli /cx show batterywarning
perccli /cx show bgirate
perccli /cx show bootwithpinnedcache
perccli /cx show cachebypass
perccli /cx show cacheflushint
perccli /cx show ccrate
perccli /cx show coercion
perccli /cx show cc|consistencycheck
perccli /cx show copyback
perccli /cx show ds(dimmerswitch)
perccli /cx show jbod
perccli /cx show loadbalancemode
perccli /cx show maintainpdfailhistory
perccli /cx show ncq
perccli /cx show patrolread
perccli /cx show perfmode
perccli /cx show personality
perccli /cx show pi
perccli /cx show prcorrectunconfiguredareas
perccli /cx show prrate
perccli /cx show rebuildrate
perccli /cx show reconrate
perccli /cx show restorehotspare
perccli /cx show smartpollinterval
perccli /cx show time
perccli /cx show usefdeonlyencrypt
perccli /cx(x|all) show pi
perccli /cx set <property>=<value>
General example output:
Status Code = 0
Status = Success
Description = None
Controller 0, new Property_name = Property_value
The following commands are examples of the properties that can be set using the perccli /cx set<property>=<value>
command:
perccli /cx set abortcconerror=<on|off>
perccli /cx set activityforlocate=<on|off>
perccli /cx set backplane mode=<value> expose=<on/off>
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