10.5 HP StoreVirtual LeftHand OS Command Line Interface User Guide (AX696-96242, March 2013)
8| HP StoreVirtual CLI| Syntax
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:
• MB - megabytes (2^20)
• GB - gigabytes (2^30)
• TB - terabytes (2^40)
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).
Some values may be specified as either a size or percentage, for example, reserveQuota. The units will
determine how this is interpreted. For example:
• 10MB - 1,048,576 bytes
• 10GB - 10,737,418,240 bytes
• 10% - 1/10 of the current volume size
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 also specify managers as a host name, provided they 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
Concurrent CLIQ commands
No more than 5 concurrent commands from distinct users should be sent to a single NSM. Users can
experience timeouts and performance declines with the 6th concurrent command. For example, CLIQ
commands from users Sue, Bob, Jim, Alan, and Les can be received and serviced by a single NSM
simultaneously; however, adding a 6th simultaneous command from Steve could result in a timeout or
performance decline for any of the users.
More than 5 simultaneous commands can be achieved by distributing CLIQ sessions across each NSM in a
management group. For example, in a 3-node management group, 6 unique users can simultaneously send
commands by distributing them as follows:
• Sue and Bob send commands to NSM 1
• Jim and Alan send commands to NSM 2
• Les and Steve send commands to NSM 3
Integrated command shell
The CLIQ command line has an integrated shell that's executed by default when connecting directly to a
storage system, or running cliq.exe without any parameters: