Administrator's Reference


Chapter 2. Entering Administrative Commands

This chapter contains information about entering and routing administrative commands. An administrative command includes:

Command name: The command name can consist of a single action word, such as HALT, or it can consist of an action word and an object for the action, such as DEFINE DOMAIN. You can enter the entire command name or the abbreviation specified in the syntax diagram for the command.

Positional parameters: Some commands have required or optional positional parameters. Positional parameters must be entered in the order indicated in the syntax diagram for a command.

For example, to copy a policy set, enter the name of the policy to which the policy set belongs, the name of the policy set you want to copy, and the name you want to assign the copy, in that order:

copy policyset domain1 oldset newset

Keyword parameters: Some commands have required or optional keyword parameters. When included in a command, a keyword parameter must follow any positional parameters in the command. Use the equal sign to distinguish between the keyword and the value. A keyword parameter can, for example, provide a description of an object, identify an object (such as a storage pool or policy domain), or specify a setting for an option. You can enter either the entire keyword, or the abbreviation identified in the syntax diagram for the command.

For example, to include a description for a new policy domain, enter:

define domain acctg description="accounting"


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