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
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
=<value>] | [includessds=<on|onlymixed|off>] | [uncfgareas=on|off] | [excludevd=x-
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
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Working with the PERC Command Line Interface Tool