AssuredSAN 6004 CLI Reference Guide For firmware release GF101 or later Abstract This guide provides information about managing a Dot Hill AssuredSAN 6004 storage system by using its command-line interface (CLI). P/N 83-00006818-11-01 Revision A May 2015 Copyright © 2015 Dot Hill Systems Corp. All rights reserved. Dot Hill Systems Corp., Dot Hill, the Dot Hill logo, AssuredSAN, EcoStor, and SimulCache are trademarks of Dot Hill Systems Corp. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are proprietary to their respective owners. The material in this document is for information only and is subject to change without notice. While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation of this document to assure its accuracy, changes in the product design can be made without reservation and without notification to its users. Contents About this guide. 10 Intended audience . 10 Prerequisites. 10 Document conventions and symbols . 10 1 Using the CLI . 12 Accessing the CLI . 12 CLI output formats . 12 Using CLI interactively . 13 Using a script to access the CLI . 13 Using the XML API . 16 Scripting guidelines . 17 XML API examples . 17 XML API optimization . 18 Command syntax . 18 General rules for specifying commands . 18 Specifying drawers . 19 Specifying disks. 19 Specifying vdisks . 19 Specifying disk groups . 19 Specifying volumes . 19 Specifying ports. 20 Specifying initiators and hosts . 20 Specifying fan modules . 20 User password rules. 20 Command completion, editing, and history . 21 Viewing help . 21 Size representations . 21 Event log . 22 2 Categorical list of commands. 23 3 Alphabetical list of commands . 24 abort scrub . 25 abort verify . 26 add global-spare (Deprecated). 26 add spares . 27 add vdisk-spare (Deprecated). 27 check firmware-upgrade-health. 28 clear cache . 30 clear degraded-disk . 31 clear disk-metadata. 32 clear events . 33 clear expander-status . 34 create certificate. 35 create host (Deprecated) . 36 create schedule . 36 create task . 38 create user. 39 create vdisk . 43 create volume. 45 create volume-set . 47 delete global-spare (Deprecated) . 48 delete host (Deprecated) . 48 Contents 3 delete initiator-nickname . 49 delete schedule . 50 delete task . 51 delete user. ..