Retrieving detailed information using command-line interface

FSE command-line interface (CLI) includes several commands and options that you can use to retrieve information about the FSE. This information indicates, for example, the parameters of configurable FSE entities, their current states, their usage information, and so on.

The scope of the retrieved information depends on the type of entity under consideration. The entities and their monitoring commands are listed in the following table.

Table 4 FSE monitoring commands

FSE entities

Monitoring command

 

 

FSE libraries

fselibrary --list

 

 

FSE drives

fsedrive --list

 

 

FSE media pools

fsepool --list

 

 

FSE media

fsemedium --list

 

 

FSE medium volumes

fsemedium --list --volume

 

 

FSE partitions

fsepartition --list

 

 

Files on HSM file systems

fsefile --list

 

 

FSE jobs

fsejob --list

 

 

Additionally, FSE extends each of these monitoring commands with the --detailoption, which has two benefits:

•It causes the monitoring commands to format their output in a different way, where each retrieved parameter of the queried entity is displayed in a separate line in the form of ParameterName: ParameterValue. Multiple entities of the same type are displayed one after another.

This kind of command output is suitable for parsing within scripts and helps automate administrative tasks in the FSE implementation.

•With most monitoring commands, it reports additional entity details, such as low-level information, ID strings, serial numbers, usage statistics, and so on.

NOTE: You can only use the --detailoption in combination with the --listoption.

For explanation of the parameters retrieved using the --detailoption, see the corresponding command descriptions in the FSE CLI reference.

The next section provides examples of command outputs generated with the different FSE commands using the --detailoption.

Examples of command outputs generated using the --list --detail options

Excerpt from an example output of the fselibrary --list --detail command

Name: lib01

Family: LTO

Type: SCSI

Host: fse_server.company.com

CtrlDev: /dev/sg3

Status: online

ProductID: MSL6000 Series

SerialNo: 3G2BLBD358D0

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File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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