Reference Guide

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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 Dell OpenManage Server Administrator omreport and
omconfig commands.
NOTE: For more information, see the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Installation Guide and Dell
OpenManage Management Station Software Installation Guide . For more information on Storage Management,
see the Storage Management online Help or the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management
User’s Guide .
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 64. 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>
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