register_storage

Registers a storage registered in Enterprise Manager.

Format

Standard Mode

emcli register_storage
       -storage_name="<storage name>"
       -vendor="<NetApp|Sun ZFS|Solaris ZFS|EMC>"
       [-protocol="<http|https>"]
       [-smis_url="http://host-name:port"]
       -storage_cred="<credential_name>"
       [-aliases="<alias1;alias2;alias3;...>"]
       [-storage_agents="<host1:cred1;host2:cred2;...>"]
       [-frequency="<Minutes:40|Hours:3|Days:2|Weeks:3>"]

Interactive or Script Mode

register_storage(
storage_name="<storage name>"
,vendor="<NetApp|Sun ZFS|Solaris ZFS|EMC>"
[,protocol="<http|https>"]
[,smis_url="http://host-name:port"]
,storage_cred="<credential_name>"
[,aliases="<alias1;alias2;alias3;...>"]
[,storage_agents="<host1:cred1;host2:cred2;...>"]
[,frequency="<Minutes:40|Hours:3|Days:2|Weeks:3>"]
)

[ ]  indicates that the parameter is optional. 

Options

• storage_name

  Name of the storage.

• vendor

  Vendor of the storage hardware.

• protocol

  Protocol to be used to communicate with the storage hardware. Input required only for NetApp storage.

• smis_url

  The URL to be used to communicate with the EMC storage hardware. Input required only for EMC storage.

• storage_cred

  Credential to be used to communicate with the storage hardware. This has to be owned by the user.

• aliases

  The interfaces and aliases of the storage that will be used to mount the volumes on host in the aliases section. This should include fully qualified domain name, IP address, DNS alias or any other name that points to storage data interface.

• storage_agents

  The hosts that can be used to perform operations on this storage device.

• frequency

  The frequency at which the storage synchronize job should be run.

Exit Codes

0 if successful. A non-zero value indicates that verb processing was unsuccessful.

Examples

Example 1

The following command registers a Sun ZFS storage server:

emcli register_storage
                -storage_name="sunzfs1"
                -vendor="Sun ZFS"
                -storage_cred="sunzfs1_cred"
                -aliases="sunzfs1.example.com;sunzfs1_eg"
                -storage_agents="host1:cred1;host2:cred2"
                -frequency="Hours:3"

Example 2

The following command registers a NetApp storage server:

emcli register_storage
                -storage_name="napstr1"
                -vendor="NetApp"
                -protocol="https"                
                -storage_cred="napstr1_cred"
                -aliases="netapp1.example.com;netapp1"
                -storage_agents="host1:cred1;host2:cred2"
                -frequency="Minutes:40"