Table of Contents

About this CLI Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Chapter 1. Introduction to the 3ware Command Line Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Features of the CLI

. 2

Supported Operating Systems

. 3

Terminology

. 3

Installing the 3ware CLI

. 4

Installing the 3ware CLI on Windows

. 4

Installing the 3ware CLI on Linux and FreeBSD

. 5

Working with 3ware CLI

. 6

Using the command interface interactively

. 6

Using a single command with output

. 7

Using an input file to execute a script

. 7

Outputting the CLI to a Text File

. 8

Conventions

. 8

Understanding RAID Levels and Concepts

. 9

RAID Concepts

. 9

Available RAID Configurations

10

Determining What RAID Level to Use

16

Chapter 2. CLI Syntax Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Common Tasks Mapped to CLI Commands

19

Syntax Overview

21

Shell Object Commands

23

focus Object

23

show

24

show ver

25

show alarms [reverse]

26

show diag

26

show rebuild

26

show verify

27

show selftest

27

flush

28

rescan

28

commit

28

update fw=filename_with_path [force]

28

Controller Object Commands

29

/cx show

30

/cx show attribute [attribute ...]

31

/cx show driver

32

/cx show model

32

/cx show firmware

32

/cx show bios

32

/cx show monitor

32

/cx show serial

33

/cx show pcb

33

/cx show pchip

33

/cx show achip

33

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