Structure of a script command

All script commands have the following structure:

<em className="ph i">command operand-data</em> (<em className="ph i">statement-data</em>)

• command identifies the action to be performed.
• operand-data represents the objects associated with a storage array that you want to configure or manage.
• statement-data provides the information needed to perform the command.

The syntax for operand-data has the following structure:

(<em className="ph i">object-type</em> | all <em className="ph i">object-types</em> | [<em className="ph i">qualifier</em>] (<em className="ph i">object-type</em> [<em className="ph i">identifier</em>] (<em className="ph i">object-type</em> [<em className="ph i">identifier</em>] | <em className="ph i">object-types</em> [<em className="ph i">identifier-list</em>])))

An object can be identified in four ways:

• Object type – Use when the command is not referencing a specific object.

• all parameter prefix – Use when the command is referencing all of the objects of the specified type in the storage array (for example, allVolumes ).

• Square brackets – Use when performing a command on a specific object to identify the object (for example,

  volume [engineering] ).

• A list of identifiers – Use to specify a subset of objects. Enclose the object identifiers in square brackets (for example,

  volumes [sales engineering marketing] ).

A qualifier is required if you want to include additional information to describe the objects.

The object type and the identifiers that are associated with each object type are listed in this table.