3PAR InForm® OS 2.3.1 CLI Administrator's Manual (320-200180 Rev B, February 2010)

13.5
Task Manager
InForm OS Version 2.3.1 3PAR InForm CLI Administrator’s Manual
 To start a background_command task, issue the starttask <command_name> command,
where:
◆ <command_name> is the name of the CLI command to run as a background_command.
For a complete list of options available for the
starttask command, see the InForm OS
Command Line Interface Reference and InForm CLI Help.
13.2.4 Displaying Task Information
Once a task is started, you can use the task ID to obtain information about the task. To see a list
of all tasks that have been active within the last 24 hours, you can use the
showtask
command without specifying a task ID. For example:
All tasks are displayed by their task IDs, including active and completed tasks. The system stores
information for up to 1,000 tasks. You can use the
showtask -t <hours> command to show
tasks older than 24 hours.
You can use the
showtask -d command and the task ID to display status information about a
specific ongoing or completed task. Task
454 is show in the following example:
The columns in the example above are identified as follows:
■ Id - The task ID for the displayed task.
■ Type - The task type. Task types are explained in 13.3 Task Types on page 13.9.
■ Name -The name of the system object that is being operated on. When there are multiple
objects, those objects are not identified individually but as a group (for example,
multiple lds or multiple cpgs).
■ Status - The task state. Task states are as follows:
cli% showtask
Id Type Name Status Phase Step -----Start_Time------ ------Finish_Time-------
1 vv_copy vv1a done 0/0 0/0 Wed Oct 06 18:44:05 EDT 2004 Wed Oct 06 18:44:57 EDT 2004
2 vv1b vv_copy active 2/3 0/8 Wed Oct 06 19:44:34 EDT 2004 --
cli% showtask -d 454
Id Type Name Status Phase Step ----------StartTime--------- ---------FinishTime-------
454 tune_vv testvol done 0/0 0/0 Fri Apr 29 11:42:06 PDT 2005 Fri Apr 29 11:42:19 PDT 2005
Detailed status:
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