Acopia Adaptive Resource Switch, Cli Maintenance Manual

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Introduction
Document Conventions
1-4 CLI Maintenance Guide
The chapters in this manual contain maintenance instructions, such as
1. backing up and restoring client files through the ARX,
2. backing up configuration data with
show running-config
and similar commands,
3. performing software upgrades,
4. maintaining the metadata used by managed volumes,
5. reading the syslog and working with other basic-maintenance facilities,
6. using some network-troubleshooting tools (such as ping),
7. taking down and repairing managed volumes, and
8. powering down the switch for a planned outage.
Document Conventions
This manual uses the following conventions:
this font
represents screen input and output;
•
bold text
represents input, and
•
italic text
appears for variable input or output.
this font
is used for command-syntax definitions, which use the same rules for bold
and italic. Command-syntax definitions also use the following symbols:
•
[ optional-argument ]
- square brackets ([ ]) surround optional arguments;
•
choice1 | choice2
- the vertical bar ( | ) separates argument choices;
•
{ choice1 | choice2 | choice3 }
- curly braces ({ }) surround a required choice;
• [
choice1 | choice2 ]*
- an asterisk (*) means that you can choose none of them, or
as many as desired (for example, “
choice1 choice2
” chooses both);
• {
choice1 | choice2 }+
- a plus sign (+) means that you must choose one or more.