HP P2000 G3 Cli Reference Guide

16 Using the CLI
Using CLI interactively
By default the CLI is an interactive application. When you are logged into the CLI, the CLI waits for a
command to be entered and then responds to it.
The following example shows interactively starting a Telnet session, logging into the CLI, executing a
command to show free (available) disks, and exiting the CLI:
$: telnet 172.22.5.55
172.22.5.55 login: monitor
Password: ********
product
System Name: Test
System Location: Lab
Version: version
# show disks free
Location Serial Number Vendor Rev How Used Type Size
Rate*(Gb/s) SP Health Health Reason
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.2 SN vendor rev AVAIL SAS 146.8GB
3.0 OK
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Info: * Rates may vary. This is normal behavior.
Success: Command completed successfully. (2011-10-20 12:46:41)
# exit
Using a script to access the CLI
The following example shows how to construct a Perl script to communicate with the CLI via Telnet.
cLogin is called at the start of the script to log a user into the CLI. The script uses the command-line
parameters specified as the IP address, username, and password. After the user has been logged in,
other commands can be sent to the CLI.
use Net::Telnet;
sub cLogin {
$telnet->open($_[0]);
$telnet->waitfor(/(login|username)[: ]*$/i);
$telnet->print("$_[1]");
$telnet->waitfor(/password[: ]*$/i);
$telnet->print("$_[2]");
# either got a login or a prompt
@ok = $telnet->waitfor(/(#|login:*) /i);
if ($debug_commands == 1) { print "-"; print @ok; print "-\n"; }
if ($ok[1] =~ m/login/gi)
{
return 0;
}
else
{
return 1;
}
}
$ipAddr = $ARGV[0];
$username = $ARGV[1];
$password = $ARGV[2];
$telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>10,
Errmode=>'die',
Prompt => '/\# $/i');

HP P2000 G3 Specifications

General

Brand	HP
Model	P2000 G3
Category	Storage
Language	English