HP XP RAID Manager Software - Manual (Page 8)

1 Overview
RAID Manager enables you to perform storage system configuration and data management
operations by issuing commands to the RAID storage systems.
About RAID Manager
RAID Manager enables you to perform storage system configuration and data management
operations by issuing commands to the RAID storage systems. RAID Manager operations can be
used on the following storage systems:
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P9500 Disk Array
•
XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array
•
XP12000 Disk Array
•
XP10000 Disk Array
•
XP1024/XP128 Disk Array
RAID Manager continues to provide the proven functionality that has been available for the
XP24000/XP20000 Disk Array storage systems and previous storage system models, including
in-system replication, remote replication, and data protection operations.
In addition, RAID Manager now provides command-line access to the same provisioning and
storage management operations that are available in the Remote Web Console graphical user
interface. RAID Manager commands can be used interactively or in scripts to automate and
standardize storage administration functions, thereby simplifying the job of the storage administrator
and reducing administration costs. This new version of RAID Manager also provides improved
ease of use while at the same time reducing risk of error.
CAUTION: Some storage systems may reject commands from RAID Manager. Verify the program
products for each storage system and those functions statuses when commands are rejected.
RAID Manager functions available on the P9500 storage system
The following table lists and describes new RAID Manager functions available on the P9500
storage system:
Description Item
Supports configuration setting commands in addition to replication commands. Provisioning function
Supports a command processing method, which returns a response when receiving a
command and executes the actual processing later. Asynchronous commands
Supports the transaction mode that executes a script file specified by the -zt option
and the line-by-line mode that executes row-by-row input from the command line. Command execution modes
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Context Check. Checks the consistency of the contents in the script file.
• Configuration check. Checks the contents of the script file if it is operated for the
installed resource.
At the transaction mode, these checks are performed when these are evaluated as
normal before executing script files. Also, the progress of the check and execution are
displayed in the console.
Executes the command checking only (processing is not executed even if no problem
found on the checking result). This is available to specify in both line-by-line mode
and transaction mode. Precheck function
Makes both replication/provisioning CLIs executable with out-of-band method. CLI command in out-of-band
8 Overview