Table of Contents
This chapter describes the Data ONTAP 10.0 management interface. It includes the following sections:
“Management-Interface Concepts” describes concepts associated with the management interface.
“Using the Management Interface” describes using the management interface.
Data ONTAP 10.0 provides two equivalent ways of administering nodes: the command line interface (CLI) and the Web interface. The CLI provides a command-based mechanism that is similar to the UNIX tcsh shell. The Web interface provides a model with which you can interact by using a Web browser. Regardless of the interface used (CLI or Web), a set of similar objects is displayed as rows in a table. Each object or row is identified by a set of key values, which occupy the first fields. The rest of the rows are occupied by values of other parameters.
Data ONTAP 10.0 commands are organized hierarchically into command sets by directories. Command directories can contain other directories. The commands contained within the directories enable you to manage the components of a Data ONTAP 10.0 system.
All commands fall into one of the following categories of availability:
Operational mode—These commands are available during normal operation of a Data ONTAP 10.0 system, after it has been initialized and configured. Almost all commands are available in operational mode.
Maintenance mode—These commands are available when a Data ONTAP 10.0 system is running but has not yet been initialized or configured, or when the system has failed and is not yet fully operational. Maintenance-mode commands can be used to initialize and configure a system, and to diagnose and resolve problems. Most maintenance-mode commands are also available in operational mode, but a few commands are available only in maintenance mode.
See the Data ONTAP 10.0 Administration Reference for details on the availability of particular commands.
Data ONTAP 10.0 commands are classified into the following privilege levels:
admin—Most commands fall into this category. These commands are used for routine system-management tasks.
advanced—Commands in this category are used infrequently, require advanced knowledge to use, and can cause problems if used inappropriately. NetApp recommends that you use advanced-level commands and parameters only with the advice of support personnel.
diagnostic—Commands in this category are potentially disruptive tools that are used only by support personnel to diagnose and fix serious problems.
For information on setting privilege levels, see “Setting the Privilege Level”.