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Using the Storage Management Service 155
Using the Storage Management Service
Storage Management has a fully-featured command line interface (CLI) that enables you to perform
all of Storage Management’s reporting, configuration, and management functions 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 Dell OpenManage™ Server
Administrator omreport and omconfig commands. This chapter only documents the omreport and
omconfig commands that apply to Storage Management. See the Dell OpenManage Installation and
Security User's Guide for installation information. See the Storage Management online help and
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management User’s Guide for more information on
Storage Management.
CLI Command Syntax
Like all the Dell OpenManage 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 specificity
regarding the type of object on which the command will operate or the information that the
command will display.
For example, the following omconfig command syntax has three levels:
omconfig storage adisk
The following table describes these command levels.
Table 9-1. 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
adisk Specifies the type of object on which the
command operates