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Using the Export Tool 7-63
Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM Hitachi Performance Manager User’s Guide
option Subcommand Syntax
optionU[compress|nocompress]U[ask|clear|noclear]
Description
The option subcommand specifies the following:
• whether to compress monitoring data in ZIP files
• whether to overwrite or delete existing files and directories when saving
monitoring data in files
Operands
The two operands below specify whether to compress CSV files into ZIP files. If
none of these operands is specified, compress is assumed:
compress
Compresses data in ZIP files. To extract CSV files out of a ZIP file, you
will need to decompress the ZIP file.
nocompress
Does not compress data in ZIP files and saves data in CSV files.
The three operands below specify whether to overwrite or delete an existing
file or directory when the Export Tool saves files. If none of these operands is
specified, ask is assumed:
ask
Displays a message that asks whether to delete existing files or
directories.
clear
Deletes existing files and directories and then saves monitoring data in
files.
noclear
Overwrites existing files and directories.
Example
The following example saves monitoring data in CSV files, not in ZIP files:
option nocompress