Navisphere Command Line Interface (CLI) Reference - VMware Communities

Basic CommandsgetcontrolDescriptionSyntaxPrerequisitesOptionsGets SP performance informationThe naviseccli or navicli getcontrol command returns informationabout the SP performance.getcontrol is used with naviseccli (described on page 37) or navicli(described on page 45) as follows:getcontrol [-allib] [-arv] [-busy] [-cbt] [-date] [-day] [-flush] [-idle][-read] [-rw] [-sc] [-sf] [-sl] [-time] [-write] [-all]For naviseccli, you must have a user account on the storage systemon which you want to execute the command.For navicli, you must be able to log in to the host runningNavisphere CLI.-allibReturns the idle and busy ticks for all buses.-arvReturns the number of times a user request arrived while at leastone other request was being processed.-busyReturns the percentage of time the SP is busy.-cbtReturns the controller idle and busy ticks.-dateReturns the SP’s system date.-dayReturns the SP’s system day.-flushReturns the number of times that flushing was turned on by thehigh watermark, the low watermark, and the Idle unit. This alsoreturns the number of requests to flush the write cache, and thenumber of write cache blocks flushed.158 EMC Navisphere Command Line Interface (CLI) Reference