3.4.0 Matrix Server Command Reference

Chapter 2: mx Commands 73
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Display the status of a service monitor:
mx service status [arguments] [<vhost:port>]
The arguments are:
[--up|--down]
[--primary|--backup]
[--enabled|--disabled]
[--active|--inactive]
[--showApplication]
With no arguments, the command shows status for all service monitors.
Dump the service monitor configuration to stdout:
mx service dump
mx snapshot – snapshot commands
Use the following commands to create or destroy hardware snapshots.
Show snapshot options for the storage array associated with a volume:
mx snapshot showcreateopt <volume>
The options are:
--label “<label>”
An identifier for the snapshot. The label must be enclosed in double
quotation marks and can include up to 63 characters. The default is
“Snapshot of volume”.
--scsf [false|true]
Whether the snapshot should be shared as a shadow copy of a shared
folder. The default is true.
--allocation_policy fully|demand|copy
The type of snapshot. The allocation policy for all snapshots of a particular
virtual disk is determined by the oldest snapshot of that virtual disk. The
choices here are only a preference. fully reserves the maximum amount of
disk group resources needed at snapshot creation time and is the default.
demand reserves the minimum amount of disk group resources needed.
copy creates a complete copy of the original volume (a snapclone).