Tag Archives: CLI

A quick memo on creating virtual machines using VirtualBox CLI

Posted on 03.08.2020 by mezzantrop

Sorry people, I have to leave it here because at my age I still have trouble organising records in a way that allows me to find notes without being surprised by the cryptic scribbles written on them*. VirtualBox has a … Continue reading →

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Empty-0.6.21b released!

Posted on 19.03.2020 by mezzantrop

15 Years since the first release and 5 since the last one. Yes, because of COVID-19 I have more time to update one of my most valued yet outdated project. So, meet the freshest release of empty – run processes … Continue reading →

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A simple way to visualize IBM SVC/Storwize performance

Posted on 21.03.2018 by mezzantrop

Recently I wrote a set of tools to collect and display in CLI performance statistic of IBM Spectrum Virtualize: SVC and Storwize systems. Using various protocols it’s possible to get both detailed performance for each vdisk, mdisk or drive as … Continue reading →

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svcstats.py – Report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface

Posted on 28.09.2017 by mezzantrop

My *stat-like utility to report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface. Report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface Requires Python 3 with ‘pywbem’ module Before running svcstats.py, enable statistic on … Continue reading →

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Executing a batch of commands on multiple IBM SVC/Storwize storage systems

Posted on 15.09.2017 by mezzantrop

Sometimes you have to change several configuration parameters or run multiple commands over a list of IBM SVC storage systems. Here is my small Python 3 script to do the stuff quickly. It requires Paramiko module to handle SSH interactions. Edit … Continue reading →

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Scan IBM SVC/Storwize system for “SCSI ID Mismatches”

Posted on 01.09.2017 by mezzantrop

A small addition to the SAN/Storage CLI Toolbox which shows so called SCSI ID (LUN) mismatches on IBM SVC/Storwize systems. This Bourne shell/awk script shows the list of the same vdisks that are mapped with different SCSI IDs. Should be useful … Continue reading →

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Fetching data from Hitachi Command Suite with HiCommandCLI, PowerShell and Python

Posted on 30.11.2016 by mezzantrop

You may say it’s not worth writing a post on the subject, just use the Command Suite CLI, Luke and that’s all! But sometimes HCS CLI behavior is not so obvious. Telling the truth it may surprise you.

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Setting memory size for Hitachi Command Suite CLI (HICommandCLI)

Posted on 04.11.2016 by mezzantrop

When running CLI for Hitachi Command Suit (HICommandCLI.sh in UNIX or HICommandCLI.bat in Windows) we sometimes get this type of error: KAIC90574-E The memory for the CLI became insufficient while this operation was being performed Command Suite CLI is actually … Continue reading →

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How can you find out which process is listening on a port on Windows?

Posted on 21.10.2016 by mezzantrop

If you can start cmd as an Administrator, simple run: netstat -nab which will give you the list of open sockets along with the names of processes. In other case you can try to find it by process-id manually. For … Continue reading →

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Quick reference for adding and attaching drives in VirtualBox CLI

Posted on 18.10.2016 by mezzantrop

Recently VirtualBox Manager GUI running on my Windows box, began to crash without any known reason when creating new or attaching existent virtual drives to any of the virtual machines. So I have to do all the things using CLI now and definitely I enjoy the … Continue reading →

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