Navisphere Command Line Interface (CLI) Reference - VMware Communities

About EMC Navisphere CLIThe tradeoffs between manager and the CLI are as follows:ManagerUses a user interface (UI) with online,context-sensitive helpRequires user interactionCLIUses a command line interface with a singlehelp file through which you find the topic youwantUses command lines that you can typeinteractively or write into a shell script forautomated operationsWith the CLI, as with manager, you can configure, control, andretrieve status from any managed storage system on the LAN. Youcan also use the CLI to automate disk-storage management functionsby writing shell scripts or batch files.Note: If you are running VMware ESX Server, you can run Navisphere CLIfrom ESX Server or a virtual machine (VM). If you run Navisphere CLI fromESX Server, all commands are available. If you run Navisphere CLI from aVM, commands that require the Navisphere Host Agent are not supported,since the Navisphere Host Agent is not supported on a VM. The followingcommands require the Navisphere Host Agent: lunmapinfo, register. Forcommands that you can issue to either an SP or host agent, such as getagentor remoteconfig, if you issue the command to a VM, only the SP agent type issupported.About Navisphere AnalyzerNavisphere Analyzer 6.X is a web-based tool, using a commonbrowser, that allows an administrator to graphically examine theperformance characteristics of the logical and physical entities thatmake up a CLARiiON storage system. Analyzer supports immediate(real-time) data display, as well as the display of previously loggeddata. As a result, Navisphere Analyzer lets you do immediatecomparisons, long-term trend analysis, and off-site performancetroubleshooting/analysis.Like Navisphere Manager, Navisphere Analyzer resides on a storagesystem or a Windows 2000 server that is running the storagemanagement server software, and is downloaded to the browserwhen the storage management server software is accessed.Analyzer is an optional product and requires an enabler to beinstalled in order to retrieve usable data.23