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
Input example:
perccli /c0 show snapdump
perccli /cx set snapdump state=on|off
This command set enables or disables the snapdump on the controller.
● On - Enables snapdump on the controller.
● Off - Disables the snapdump on the controller.
Input example:
perccli /c0 set snapdump state = on
NOTE: Once snapdump is disabled on the controller it will persist through the updates and reboot until it is enabled.
perccli /cx set snapdump [ savecount=<value> | delayocr=<value> ]
This command sets the properties of snapdump information on the controller.
Input example:
perccli /c0 set snapdump savecount=20 delayocr=20
Table 19. Snapdump commands
Option Value Range Description
savecount 0-255 Number of times snapdump persists on the controller across reboots.
delayocr 15-60 Number of seconds that the driver delays the OCR to allow the snapdump logs to
be collected.
The default values for savecount and delayocr are 4 and 15 respectively. The savecount option is not applicable for PERC 11
controllers as it is always persistent on PERC 11 controllers.
perccli /cx get snapdump [ id=[ all | <value> file=<filename>] ]
[norttdump]
This command gets the controller snapdump data and saves the data to a file. Only the following combinations are supported:
● perccli /c0 get snapdump [norttdump]
● perccli /c0 get snapdump id=all [norttdump]
● perccli /c0 get snapdump id=<value> file=fileName [norttdump]
Input example:
perccli /c0 get snapdump id=0 file=Snapdump.zip
Table 20. Snapdump commands
Option Value Range Description
ID all | specifc ID ID of the snapdump from the data displayed with show snapdump command.
● if all is specified all available snapdumps will be extracted in zip format.
● if ID suboption is not specified, then a support log download generation
request is submitted and all snapdumps are downloaded, including on demand
snapdumps.
filename User specificed file to be saved in zip format and later to be extracted.
norttdump - norrttdump is applicable only for windows. By default driver dump is saved to a file
in windows. if norttdump is specified driver dump will not be saved.
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