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

13.6
Task Manager
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◆ done. - The task has completed successfully.
◆ active - The task is still in process.
◆ cancelled - The task was cancelled by the user.
◆ failed - The task failed to complete due to a reason other than user cancellation.
■ Phase - For active tasks, indicates the number of completed phases and the total number
of phases in the current step, using the format
<#completed_phase>/<#total_phases>. See individual task type descriptions for an
indication of the number of phases for all tasks of that type.
■ Step - For active tasks, indicates the number of completed steps and the total number of
steps in the current task, using the format
<#completed_step>/<#total_steps>. For most task types, the total steps is equal to
the number of regions in the operation. See individual task type descriptions for step
definitions.
■ Start Time - Indicates the time at which the task was started.
■ Finish Time - For done, cancelled, and failed tasks, indicates the time at which the
task stopped due to completion, cancellation, or failure.
Use the showtask -t option to see older tasks. For a complete list of options available
for the
showtask command, see the InForm OS Command Line Interface Reference and
InForm CLI Help.
13.2.5 Waiting for Tasks
You can use the task ID and the waittask command to ask the system to wait for a task to
complete before returning a command prompt. This prevents you from running too many
tasks at once. If you use the
waittask -v option the command displays detailed task status as
the task executes, and then return after it completes. For example: