RDF System Management Manual for H-Series RVUs (RDF 1.8)

Usage Guidelines
Issue an OPEN command to select the RDF control subvolume to which any subsequent RDFCOM
commands (except another OPEN command) will apply.
Using the OPEN command is the same as specifying a control subvolume in the RDFCOM
command that begins a session. For example, the following two command sequences both
accomplish the same thing—identifying DENVER3 as the RDF control subvolume and then
obtaining current status information for that system:
• Sequence A:
>RDFCOM
]OPEN DENVER3
]STATUS RDF
• Sequence B:
>RDFCOM DENVER3
]STATUS RDF
Remember that, when you enter the RDFCOM command without specifying a control subvolume,
RDFCOM assumes that the control subvolume name is the same as that of the local system on
which the RDFCOM is running (without the backslash and with no suffix character). Thus, the
OPEN and STATUS commands shown in Sequence A and Sequence B will only work if a
configuration file exists on the control subvolume DENVER3.
You must use the OPEN command if the system you are entering commands on services more
than one RDF configuration, or is a backup system in your RDF configuration, and you did not
specify a control subvolume in the RDFCOM command that started the present session.
Examples
The following command, issued from a common backup system for the primary systems
\TORONTO and \DALLAS, identifies TORONTO as the RDF control subvolume for subsequent
RDFCOM commands:
]OPEN TORONTO
Having issued the above command, the next command obtains RDF status information for
\TORONTO:
]STATUS RDF
The following command identifies DALLAS as the RDF control subvolume:
]OPEN DALLAS
Having issued the above command, the next command requests RDF configuration information
for \DALLAS:
]INFO *
In the two OPEN commands above, you do not include a backslash (\) because you are specifying
the RDF control subvolume name (not a system name).
OUT
The OUT command redirects the output of the current RDFCOM session to the specified device
or file.
OUT [\system.][$volume.][subvolume.][file]
system
identifies the system on which the output file is stored.
volume
identifies the disk volume on which the output file is stored.
subvolume
identifies the subvolume on which the output file is stored.
RDFCOM Commands 205