Command Reference Guide

Chapter 2: mx Commands 71

The alert status command lists the current alert messages. (These messages

are also displayed on the Management Console.) The --severity option

filters the alerts according to the specified alert level. There are four levels:

error, fault, warning, and info.

Start the Performance Dashboard:

mx matrix dashboard

[--server ALL_SERVERS | <server_name_or_IP>]

[--datasets <number of data sets> |

UNLIMITED] [--noHeaders]

[--csv]

The arguments are:

--servers

ALL_SERVERS | <server_name_or_IP>

The server to be monitored. The default is all servers.

--datasets <number of data sets> |

UNLIMITED

The number of datasets to be returned. The default is one. After the

specified number of data sets are returned, the Dashboard will terminate.

--noHeaders

Do not display column headers in the output.

--csv

Generate the report in a comma-separated format.

Dump or restore matrix configuration information:

The following command dumps configuration information to stdout. The

information includes the configuration of servers, network interfaces,

virtual hosts, service and device monitors, notifiers, disks, and filesystems.

It also includes sleep and alerts.

The dumped information does not include configuration information for

the following: Matrix Server license, secret, matrix password, membership

partitions, fencing configuration, FibreChannel switches.

mx matrix dump

You can also save the configuration in a file for backup purposes:

mx matrix dump > <backup_file>

To restore the configuration, use this command:

mx --continue --file <backup_file>