Expert Oracle Exadata

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CellCLI and dcli

CellCLI is a command interpreter through which you can manage a storage cell. It is to a cell what SQL*Plus is to a database instance. dcli is a utility by which you can send a single command to all your database servers and/or storage cells in one go. We describe both utilities briefly in this appendix.

CellCLI Command Syntax

Exadata storage software uses the CellCLI utility as its command-line interface. Unfortunately, although the documentation set that comes with Exadata does have many examples of CellCLI commands, and even a chapter dedicated to CellCLI, it does not include any reference material on the syntax itself (particularly the LIST command). So we thought we would include a few of the things ...