Using the Command Line Interface

■From the UNIX/Linux prompt

To access the CLI from the UNIX/Linux prompt, display a window and type aaccli in any directory. When the system displays the CLI> prompt, you can use CLI commands. For the commands to work in any directory, the path in the startup file (.login or .cshrc) must include the directory where the software is installed. See your UNIX/Linux documentation for information on setting up directory paths in the .login and

.cshrc files.

Terminology

For a complete discussion of terminology, see the Glossary in this guide. Table 4-1lists and defines some terms used in this chapter and is presented here for your ease-of-use:

Table 4-1 Terminology Chart

Term

Preferred Term

Definition

container

array

A logical disk created from

 

 

available space and made up of one

 

 

or more segments on one or more

 

 

physical disks.

chunk

stripe

Contiguous set of data written to

 

 

one segment before the controller

 

 

moves to the next segment.

freespace

available space

Space on an initialized disk that is

 

 

not in use.

partition

segment

Contiguous area of a physical drive

 

 

that makes up some or all of an

 

 

array.

failover disk

hot spare

Drive available to replace a failed

 

 

component in an array.

 

 

 

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