Command Syntax Rules; Command Conventions; Specifying Multiple Numbers - Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series User Manual

Command syntax rules

This section describes syntax rules for commands.

Command conventions

The following table provides command syntax conventions used in this
manual.
Convention
< > angled brackets
[ ] square brackets
[| ] vertical bar in
square brackets
{ | } vertical bar in
braces

Specifying multiple numbers

The following table provides two methods to specify multiple numbers.
Comma to separate numbers
Hyphen to specify a scope
A comma and hyphen cannot be simultaneously used to specify numbers.
You can specify multiple numbers to the following parameters.
• Server blade number
• Switch module number
• Management module number
• Fan module number
• Server blade mezzanine number
• E-mail destination address number
A server blade number is the server blade slot number in the server chassis.
For details about slot configuration in the server chassis, see the Hitachi
Compute Blade 500 Series System Overview Guide.
Specifying all numbers
Indicates a parameter value specified by the user, which is
described in Parameters of each command.
Indicates that you can omit a parameter in square brackets.
Indicates that you can select one of parameters, not more than
one, separated by the vertical bar in square brackets, or omit all
of them.
Example: [-h|-s] indicates that you can choose -h, -s, or none of
them.
Indicates that you can select one of parameters, not more than
one, separated by the vertical bar in braces.
Example: {-a|-f <file_name>} indicates that you can select -a or
-f <file_name> to specify.
Method
CLI command
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series CLI Console User's Guide
Description
0,2,3: Processing is executed for 0, 2, and 3.
0-7: Processing is executed for 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Example
2-3