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Using the Storage Management Service

Storage Management has a fully-featured command line interface (CLI) that enables you to perform all of Storage Management’s reporting, configuration, and management functions from an operating system command shell. The Storage Management CLI also enables you to script

command sequences.

The Storage Management CLI provides expanded options for the Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator omreport and omconfig commands. This chapter only documents the omreport and omconfig commands that apply to Storage Management. See the Dell OpenManage Installation and Security User's Guide for installation information. See the Storage Management online help and Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management User’s Guide for more information on Storage Management.

CLI Command Syntax

Like all the Server Administrator commands, the omreport and omconfig command syntax consists of specifying command “levels.” The first command level is the command name: omreport or omconfig. Subsequent command levels provide a greater degree of specificity regarding the type of object on which the command will operate or the information that the command will display.

For example, the following omconfig command syntax has three levels:

omconfig storage pdisk

The following table describes these command levels.

Table 8-1. Example Command Levels

Command level 1 Command level 2 Command level 3	Use
omconfig	Specifies the command
storage	Indicates the Server Administrator service (in
	this case, Storage Management) that
	implements the command
pdisk	Specifies the type of object on which the
	command operates

Following the command levels, the omreport and omconfig command syntax may require one or more name=value pairs. The name=value pairs specify exact objects (such as a specific physical disk) or options (such as “blink” or “unblink”) that the command will implement.

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