Description

The classic EMC Navisphere Command Line Interface (CLI) allows the user to monitor and manage CLARiiON storage systems. Over the years the CLI has evolved into a secure interface (known as naviseccli) and provides the same functionality as the Navisphere Manager graphical user interface.

The classic navicli interface provides basic storage configuration and management commands. The CLI interface communicates directly with the SP Agent over port 6389 and has built-in authorization and authentication security mechanisms.

Note: For security and auditing reasons it makes sense to use "naviseccli" over the classic navicli where possible.The "naviseccli" was introduced with release 19 of the CLARiiON storage system firmware.

The secure CLI communication occurs out-band (over the IP network) with the Management Server over port 443, which is the standard port for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted communication. Customer may choose to use the alternate port of 2163 for secure communication The actual port used is determined during storage-system initialization.

Secure CLI requires either port 443 or 2163 to be opened for proper operation.

EMC CLARiiON "navicli" example

In this example, EMC CLARiiON enclosure "CK200053300424" has an IP address of "10.12.208.82" for SP-B and an IP address of "10.12.208.81" for SP-A.

# navicli -h 10.12.208.82 getagent

Agent Rev:           6.26.10 (0.61)
Name:                K10
Desc:
Node:                B-CK200053300424
Physical Node:       K10
Signature:           1455336
Peer Signature:      1455377
Revision:            2.26.500.5.025
SCSI Id:             0
Model:               CX500
Model Type:          Rackmount
Prom Rev:            3.62.00
SP Memory:           2048
Serial No:           CK200053300424
SP Identifier:       B                                          <<< SP-B
Cabinet:             DPE2


# navicli -h 10.12.208.81 getagent

Agent Rev:           6.26.10 (0.61)
Name:                K10
Desc:
Node:                A-CK200053300424
Physical Node:       K10
Signature:           1455377
Peer Signature:      1455336
Revision:            2.26.500.5.025
SCSI Id:             0
Model:               CX500
Model Type:          Rackmount
Prom Rev:            3.62.00
SP Memory:           2048
Serial No:           CK200053300424
SP Identifier:       A                                          <<< SP-A
Cabinet:             DPE2

 

The EMC CLARiiON enclosure serial number details can also be confirmed using the Veritas "vxdmpadm" CLI command:

# vxdmpadm listenclosure all
ENCLR_NAME        ENCLR_TYPE     ENCLR_SNO      STATUS       ARRAY_TYPE     LUN_COUNT
===================================================================================
disk              Disk           DISKS                CONNECTED    Disk        3
pp_emc1           PP_EMC         000290301414         CONNECTED    A/A         5
pp_emc_clariion0  PP_EMC_CLARiiON CK200053300424       CONNECTED    A/A         3
pp_emc0           PP_EMC         000290300822         CONNECTED    A/A        11

Note: In this instance the EMC CLARiiON enclosure is controlled by EMC PowerPath, hence the preceeding "pp_" naming convention.