Dell PowerEdge VRTX User Manual

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Macro Commands

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• Keyword matching is case-sensitive
• Applying a macro with keywords does not change the state of the original

macro definition.

User Feedback
The behavior of a macro command requiring user feedback is the same as if

the command is entered from terminal: it sends its prompt to the terminal

and accepts the user reply.
Creating a Macro
Use the following guidelines to create a macro:

• Use macro name to create the macro with the specified name.
• Enter one macro command per line.
• Use the

@ character to end the macro.

• Use the

# character at the beginning of a line to enter a comment in the

macro.
In addition, # is used to identify certain preprocessor commands that

can only be used within a macro. There are two possible preprocessor

commands:
–

#macro key description - Each macro can be configured with up to 3

keyword/description pairs. The keywords and descriptions are

displayed in the GUI pages when the macro is displayed.

–

The syntax for this preprocessor command is as follows:

–

#macro key description $

keyword1

description1 $keyword2

description2 $keyword3 description3

–

A keyword must be prefixed with '$'.

–

macro keywords - This instruction enables the device to display the

keywords as part of the CLI help. It accepts up to 3 keywords. The

command creates a CLI help string with the keywords for the macro.

The help string will be displayed if help on the macro is requested

from the macro and macro global commands. The GUI also uses the

keywords specified in the command as the parameter names for the

macro. See Example 2 and 3 below for a description of how this

command is used in the CLI.