Help Information; Displaying Command Help; Displaying Additional Help Topics - HP AA979A - StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V Administrator's Manual

Help information

Each Fabric OS command provides Help information that explains the command function, its possible
operands, its level in the command hierarchy, and additional pertinent information.

Displaying command Help

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. To display a list of all command help topics for a given login level, enter the help command with no
arguments. For example, if you are logged in as
user-level commands that can be executed will be listed. The same rule applies to the
addition, any user-configured command that uses a
to users with the
3. To display help for a specific command for a given login level, enter help
command
switch:admin> help timeout
Administrative Commands
NAME
timeout
SYNOPSIS
timeout [timeval]
AVAILABILITY
admin
all users
DESCRIPTION
Use this command without any operands to
timeout value after which idle logins are automatically terminated.
Use this command with the timeval operand to set
the specified interval.
login sessions.
(output truncated)

Displaying additional Help topics

The following commands provide help files for specific topics:
NOTE: At the time of printing, IBM Fibre Connections (FICON) is not supported on HP B-Series Fibre
Channel switches. Please refer to
Table 3 Help file commands
Help Command
diagHelp
ficonHelp
fwHelp
iscsiHelp
licenseHelp
perfHelp
routeHelp
switchAdmin
role.
is the name of the command for which you need information.
- Sets or displays the timeout value for a login session.
(set)
(display)
A value of 0 will disable the timeout functionality of
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Description
Diagnostic help information
FICON help information
Fabric Watch help information
iSCSI help information
License help information
Performance Monitoring help information
Routing help information
user
and enter the help command, a list of all
switchAdmin
role will also see commands available
timeout(1m)
display (in min-utes)
the login timeout
for a list of current supported features.
Fabric OS 5.2.x administrator guide
admin
role. In
command
, where
the current
value to
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