Here is a list of good commands that I use frequently when working with an EMC SAN, in particular, a Celerra or VNX series. Enjoy!

Summary: Gets the disk information, state and other metrics. Note: that 1_1_14 is Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 14.

Command:

[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli -h <IP/Hostname SPA> getdisk 1_1_14

Result:

Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 14
Vendor Id: SEAGATE
Product Id: ST320004CLAR2000
Product Revision: BS17
Lun: 8181
Type: 8181: Hot Spare
State: Rebuilding
Hot Spare: 8181: YES
Hot Spare Replacing: 1_1_14
Prct Rebuilt: 8181: 100
Prct Bound: 8181: 100
Serial Number: xxxxxxx
Sectors: 3845330944 (1877603)
Capacity: 1878379
Private: 8183: 65536
Bind Signature: 0x1ef073b, 1, 14
Hard Read Errors: 0
Hard Write Errors: 0
Soft Read Errors: 0
Soft Write Errors: 0
Read Retries: N/A
Write Retries: N/A
Remapped Sectors: N/A
Number of Reads: 410
Number of Writes: 12
Number of Luns: 1
Raid Group ID: 202
Clariion Part Number: DG11800000
Request Service Time: N/A
Read Requests: 410
Write Requests: 12
Kbytes Read: 394
Kbytes Written: 229
Stripe Boundary Crossing: 0
Drive Type: NL SAS
Clariion TLA Part Number:005049277PWR
User Capacity: 1833.596680
Idle Ticks: 12810489
Busy Ticks: 5
Current Speed: 6Gbps
Maximum Speed: 6Gbps

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Summary: Get all LUNs that are trespassed (not on the default service processor).

Command:

[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli-h <IP/Hostname SPA> storagepool -user sysadmin -password <password> -scope 0 getlun -trespass

Result:

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 100
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 101
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 102
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 103
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 104
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 105
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 106
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 107
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER 200
Default Owner: SP A
Current owner: SP B

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Summary: Takes back the default SP owner for each service processor.

Command:

[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli-h <IP/Hostname SPA> -user sysadmin -password <password> -scope 0 trespass mine
[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli-h <IP/Hostname SPB> -user sysadmin -password <password> -scope 0 trespass mine

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Summary: Get how much of the cache of each service processor is currently being used.

Command:

[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli -h <IP/Hostname SPA> getcache -pdp
[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli -h <IP/Hostname SPB> getcache -pdp

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Summary: Lists your storage pools.

Command:

[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli -h <IP/Hostname SPA> storagepool -list

Result:

Pool Name: Pool 5
Pool ID: 5
Raid Type: r_6
Percent Full Threshold: 70
Description:
Disk Type: NL SAS
State: Faulted
Status: OK(0x0)
Current Operation: None
Current Operation State: N/A
Current Operation Status: N/A
Current Operation Percent Completed: 0
Raw Capacity (Blocks): 30775368208
Raw Capacity (GBs): 14674.839
User Capacity (Blocks): 23054893056
User Capacity (GBs): 10993.430
Consumed Capacity (Blocks): 22105128960
Consumed Capacity (GBs): 10540.547
Available Capacity (Blocks): 949764096
Available Capacity (GBs): 452.883
Percent Full: 95.880
Total Subscribed Capacity (Blocks): 22063104000
Total Subscribed Capacity (GBs): 10520.508
Percent Subscribed: 95.698
Oversubscribed by (Blocks): 0
Oversubscribed by (GBs): 0.000
Disks:
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 4
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 6
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 1
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 3
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 5
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 7
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 0
Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 2
LUNs: 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106

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If you receive the following error, “Security file not found. Already removed or check -secfilepath option.” Issue to following commands to allow security to issue commands remotely.

[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli -User sysadmin -Password <password> -Scope 0 -h <IP/Hostname SPA> -AddUserSecurity
[root@localhost bin]# ./naviseccli -User sysadmin -Password <password> -Scope 0 -h <IP/Hostname SPB> -AddUserSecurity