Reference Guide

perccli /cx stop patrolread

perccli /cx suspend patrolread

NOTE: A patrol read operation is scheduled for all the physical drives of the controller.

The detailed description for each command follows.

perccli /cx resume patrolread

This command resumes a suspended patrol read operation.

Input example:

perccli /c0 resume patrolread

perccli /cx set patrolread {=on mode=<auto|manual>}|{off}

This command turns the patrol read scheduling on and sets the mode of the patrol read to automatic or manual.

Input example:

perccli /co set patrolread=on mode=manual

perccli /cx set patrolread [starttime=< yyyy/mm/dd hh>] | [maxconcurrentpd

y,z|none] |

This command schedules a patrol read operation. You can use the following options for patrol read command:

Table 4. Set Patrolread input options

Option Value range Description

starttime

Valid date and hour in the format of 24

hours.

Sets the start time in yyyy/mm/dd hh

format.

maxconcurrentpd

Valid number of physical drives present. Sets the number of physical drives that can

be patrol read at a single time.

includessds

— Include SSDs in the patrol read.

uncfgareas

— Include the areas that are not configured in

the patrol read.

excludevd

— Excludes virtual drives from the patrol read.

To exclude particular virtual drives, you can

provide list of virtual drive IDs (x,y, z format)

or the range of virtual drives that must be

excluded from a patrolread (x-y format). If

this option is not specified in the command,

no virtual drives are excluded.

none

— Virtual drives if any were excluded earlier is

removed.

NOTE: Controller time is taken as a reference for scheduling a patrol read operation.

Input example:

perccli /c0 set patrolread=on starttime=2012/02/21 00

Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool