CLI Guide

Using The Storage Management Service
The CLI of Storage Management enables you to perform reporting, configuration, and management functions of Storage
Management 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 OpenManage Server Administrator omreport and omconfig
commands.
NOTE: For more information, see the Dell EMC Server Administrator Installation Guide and Dell EMC Systems
Management Tools And Documentation Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals. For more information on
Storage Management, see the Storage Management online Help or the Dell EMC Server Administrator Storage
Management User’s Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
Topics:
• CLI command syntax
• Syntax Of Command Elements
• User Privileges For Omreport Storage And Omconfig Storage
CLI command syntax
Like all 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 specification regarding the type of object on which the command operates or the information that the command
displays.
For example, the following omconfig command syntax has three levels:
omconfig storage pdisk
The following table describes these command levels.
Table 90. 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
implements.
For example, the following omconfig command syntax for blinking a physical disk has three levels and three name=value pairs:
omconfig storage pdisk action=blink controller=id pdisk=<PDISKID>
where PDISKID=<onnector:enclosureID:targetID | connector:targetID>
In this example, the id in controller=idis the controller number such that controller 1 is specified as controller=1.
6
128 Using The Storage Management Service