Administrator's Reference

Command Entry Rules

The following are general rules for entering Tivoli Storage Manager administrative commands:

• Enter a command in any column of the input line.
• Unless otherwise noted, you can specify commands in any combination of uppercase and lowercase characters.
• If a parameter allows a list of values, enter the values immediately following the equal sign and delimit the value with a comma. For example,

     cLasses=policy,storage
  

• When you refer to file space names, specify the file space name using the exact capitalization that is used by Tivoli Storage Manager. Use the QUERY FILESPACE command to find out the correct capitalization.
• If a description (a string of text) for a parameter begins with a single or double quote or contains any embedded blanks or equal signs, you must surround the value in either single (') or double (") quotation marks. The opening and closing quotation marks must be the same type of quotation marks. For example, if the opening quotation is a single quotation mark, the closing quotation mark must also be a single quotation mark.

  For example, to register a new client node named Louie, with a password of secret, and with his title included as contact information, enter:

  register node louie secret contact="manager of dept. 61f"
  

  The following table presents ways of entering a description for the CONTACT parameter. The value can contain quotation marks, embedded blanks, or equal signs.