Vsssnapshot – HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions User Manual
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cliq utility run= login= userName= passWord=
login
Required
The IP addresses or DNS-resolvable names of one or more storage
systems
userName Conditional The authentication user name for the storage system. (Parameters
userName/passWord or groupName must be specified).
passWord Conditional The password for the storage system. (Parameters userName/passWord
or groupName must be specified).
groupName Conditional The name of the management group with cached credentials.
(Parameters userName/passWord or groupName must be specified).
run
Optional
The utility and parameters to execute on the storage system - if this
parameter is missing, a list of possible commands is returned
logFile
Optional
The name of the local file used to store the returned information
useZip
Optional
When used, the resulting log file will be zipped
Example
cliq utility run="ping -c 10 10.3.2.1" login=10.1.2.3 userName=admin
passWord=secret
cliq utility run="ping -c 10 10.3.2.1"
vssSnapshot
This command snapshots volumes using the VSS requestor client (Windows only).
Availability: Windows 2003 and 2008 Only
Version: 8.0
Request Syntax
cliq vssSnapshot volumeName=
volumeName
Optional
The name of the volume
persistent
Optional
Is the snapshot persistent? This can be one of: 0, 1 - default
transportable
Optional
Is the snapshot transportable? This can be one of: 0 - default, 1
backupDoc
Optional
The name of the backup document file
writerInfo
Optional
Display information about VSS writers. This can be one of: status - writer
status, metadataSummary - summary of the VSS writers, metadataDetail -
detailed information on the VSS writers
shadowInfo
Optional
Display information about VSS shadow copies. This can be one of: all
- show information on all shadow copies,
information on shadow copies belonging to this shadow set, Copy GUID> - show information on this shadow copy deleteShadowCopies Optional Delete VSS shadow copies. This can be one of: all - delete all shadow copies, excludeWriters Optional List of writer GUIDs to exclude from the shadow copy includeWriters Optional List of writer GUIDs to include in the shadow copy - if the writer is found to not participate in the snapshot, no snapshot will be taken runCommand Optional Custom command executed after shadow creation, import or between break and make-it-write importShadow Optional Transportable VSS snapshot import mountShadow Optional Expose the shadow copy as a mount point or drive letter - the format of this is mountShadow="