Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases - Manual (Page 13)

BASIC CLI SYNTAX
The basic syntax for the CLI commands is:
commandgroup:command --option1 <item> --option2 <item> ... arg1 arg2 ...
Some options require specified items – these are explained in the next section.
The Help and History commands use the syntax of
*:help
and
*:history
, respectively. They
are explained in detail in the next section.
For Fibre Channel, the UUIDs in commands represent WWPNs.
CLI Command Example
pool:create --pesize 512 mainpool fioa fiob fioc fiod fioe fiof fiog fioh
This creates a new storage pool called mainpool, from the device IDs specified, with a physical
extent size (
pesize
) of 512KB.
Shortening Commands
Using the format
commandgroup:command
you can omit the
commandgroup
part only when
the result is unique to the CLI. For example,
system:setup
can be shortened to
setup
and
config:verify
to
verify
, etc. However,
port:get
cannot be shortened to
get
because
there are other
get
commands (
pool:get
, etc.) that are used by the CLI.
When shortening list commands, use the plural form. For example,
pool:list
becomes
pools
.
Commands that Cannot Be Shortened
All CLI commands can be shortened to omit their
commandgroup
name, except the following:
• create
• delete
• get
• update
COMMANDS UNIQUE TO THE CLI
Although most CLI commands have GUI counterparts, there are some functions that are available
only via the CLI. These unique commands include:
• help
• history
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