EMC: Control Center commands

Title:

EMC: Control Center commands

Author:

Douglas O’Leary <dkoleary@olearycomputers.com>

Description:

Description goes here

Date created:

06/2001

Date updated:

07/2005

Disclaimer:

Standard: Use the information that follows at your own risk. If you screw up a system, don’t blame it on me…

Documentation for the following commands can/should be found in the appropriate man page. This is primarily designed to be a short list of usage and syntax.

Most of the commands come in flavors of three as follows:

Reference

Description

Example

pd

Physical device name

/dev/dsk/c3t4d5

dev

Symmetrix device name

0FF

ld

Symmetrix logical device name

DEV001

Examples of what I’m talking about above:

  1. symdev list

  2. sympd list

  3. symld -g ${group} list

Command

Specifc product

Note

symdev

symcli

Performs operations on a device given the Symmetrix device name.

sympd

symcli

Performs operations on devices given the device physical name (c2t0d0)

symgate

symcli

Performs operations on gatekeeper devices.

symdg

symcli

Performs operations on Symmetrix device groups

symld

symcli

Performs operations on devices within a device group

symbcv

Timefinder

Performs support operations on BCV pairs

symmir

Timefinder

Performs control operations on BCV pairs

symrdf

symcli

Performs control operations on RDF pairs

symcfg discover

symcli

Creates a local database of the attached symmetrices

syminq

N/A

Shows internal & external devices that the host sees