11.0 HP StoreVirtual LeftHand OS Command Line Interface User Guide (AX696-96291, September 2013)

Command abbreviation

There is no command or parameter abbreviation in the CLI when scripted. All commands and

parameter names must be fully specified. This is to prevent ambiguity in legacy scripts if new

commands or parameters are added.

OS error code integration

The CLI maps error codes to reasonable OS status codes (status in Linux, ERRORLEVEL in DOS).

Since these are limited to 0..255, some of the OS errors may have less granularity than the API

error codes.

Composite commands

Some commands take multiple elements for the parameter value. In this case, the parameter is

interpreted as an delimiter-separated ordered list. For example:

volumeName=volume1;volume2

If a parameter contains fewer elements in the list than needed for the composite command, the last

one in the list will be repeated. There must be at least one element in the list, if it's required.

Size specification

When volume sizes or thresholds are specified, the format is <size><units>, where units are:

• KB—kilobytes (2^10)

• MB—megabytes (2^20)

• GB—gigabytes (2^30)

• TB—terabytes (2^40)

• PB—petabytes (2^50)

There is no default for size units; the units must be specified. These are defined as International

System of Units (SI) for file storage (popular use).

For example, size:

• 10 MB—1,048,576 bytes

• 10 GB—10,737,418,240 bytes

Password prompt

When credentials are required in the CLI, you may not want to display the password by typing

the "password=" parameter. If the username parameter is specified without the password parameter,

you will be prompted interactively for the password. This password will not be displayed.

cliq getGroupInfo login=10.0.1.2 username=admin

password: *******

DNS names

You can specify a manager using a host name, provided it can be resolved by DNS:

cliq getGroupInfo login=Exchange-1 username=admin password=secret

Storage System CLI

When commands are executed on the storage systems (via SSH), no authentication parameters

are required:

getGroupInfo

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