Asus Adaptec 2020 ZCR User Manual - Page 110

Using the CLI, Opening and Closing a Controller

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Command Line Interface From the NetWare server console To access the CLI from the NetWare server console, type aaccli at the prompt. When the system displays the CLI> prompt, which indicates that you can now use CLI commands. Using the CLI This section contains some examples of using CLI commands to perform common tasks. Opening and Closing a Controller To prepare a controller to receive a CLI command, you first need to open the controller. You may open only one controller at any time. To open controller AAC0 and prepare it to receive more CLI commands, type: CLI> open AAC0 The prompt changes to reflect the open controller, as shown in the next example. When you have finished with the controller, close it by typing: AAC0> close Displaying Information about Your Disks Before creating any array, use the disk show space command to display information about your disks. Note: Before you can create arrays, you need to initialize the member drives. In the following example, the Usage column indicates Free for each disk, which means that the space on each disk consists of available space. AAC0> disk show space Executing: disk show space Scsi C:ID:L Usage Size 0:01:0 Free 64.0KB:8.47GB 0:02:0 Free 64.0KB:8.47GB 0:03:0 Free 64.0KB:8.47GB 0:04:0 Free 64.0KB:8.47GB D-5

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D-5
Command Line Interface
From the NetWare server console
To access the CLI from the NetWare server console, type
aaccli
at
the prompt. When the system displays the
CLI>
prompt, which
indicates that you can now use CLI commands.
Using the CLI
This section contains some examples of using CLI commands to
perform common tasks.
Opening and Closing a Controller
To prepare a controller to receive a CLI command, you first need to
open
the controller. You may open only one controller at any time.
To open controller
AAC0
and prepare it to receive more CLI
commands, type:
CLI> open AAC0
The prompt changes to reflect the open controller, as shown in the
next example. When you have finished with the controller, close it
by typing:
AAC0> close
Displaying Information about Your Disks
Before creating any array, use the
disk
show
space
command to
display information about your disks.
Note:
Before you can create arrays, you need to initialize the
member drives.
In the following example, the
Usage
column indicates
Free
for each
disk, which means that the space on each disk consists of available
space.
AAC0> disk show space
Executing: disk show space
Scsi C:ID:L
Usage
Size
-----------
----------
-------------
0:01:0
Free
64.0KB:8.47GB
0:02:0
Free
64.0KB:8.47GB
0:03:0
Free
64.0KB:8.47GB
0:04:0
Free
64.0KB:8.47GB