Veritas NetBackup™ Appliance Commands Reference Guide
- Overview
- Appendix A. Main > Appliance commands
- Appendix B. Main > Manage > FibreChannel commands
- Appendix C. Main > Manage > HighAvailability commands
- Appendix D. Main > Manage > Libraries commands
- Appendix E. Main > Manage > Libraries > Advanced > ACS commands
- Appendix F. Main > Manage > License commands
- Appendix G. Main > Manage > MountPoints commands
- Appendix H. Main > Manage > NetBackup CLI commands
- Appendix I. Main > Manage > OpenStorage commands
- Appendix J. Main > Manage > Software commands
- Appendix K. Main > Manage > Storage commands
- Appendix L. Main > Manage > Tapes commands
- Appendix M. Main > Manage > Certificates commands
- Appendix N. Main > Monitor commands
- Appendix O. Main > Network commands
- Appendix P. Main > Network > Security commands (IPsec)
- Appendix Q. Main > Reports commands
- Appendix R. Main > Settings commands
- Appendix S. Main > Settings > Alerts commands
- Appendix T. Main > Settings > Notifications view commands
- Appendix U. Main > Settings > Security commands
- Appendix V. Main > Support commands
Name
Main > Monitor > Beacon — This command flashes or stops flashing lights on your appliance.
SYNOPSIS
Beacon Start
Beacon Stop
DESCRIPTION
The Beacon command enables you to flash the disk drive lights or to stop flashing the lights on the specified storage shelf (or enclosure) or hard disk drives of a 52xx appliance.
OPTIONS
- Beacon Start Enclosure EnclosureID [Minutes]
Use this command to specify the amount of time to allow all disk drive lights of an enclosure to flash. Where EnclosureID is the device ID of the enclosure and [Minutes] is the duration of time that lights will flash. [Minutes] is an optional parameter. If you do not enter a value for this parameter, it takes the default value of 5 minutes.
- Beacon Start HDD EnclosureID SlotNo [Minutes]
Use this command to specify the amount of time to allow a disk drive light to flash. Where EnclosureID is the device ID of the enclosure and SlotNo is the slot number of the disk. Instead of a slot number, you may also enter ALL to flash all disk drive lights. [Minutes] is the duration of time that lights will flash. [Minutes] is an optional parameter. If you do not enter a value for this parameter, it takes the default value of 5 minutes.
- Beacon Start WWID [WWID] [Minutes]
Use this command to specify the amount of time to allow the disk drive lights of a storage unit to flash. Where WWID is the device ID of a specific disk group and [Minutes] is the duration of time that lights will flash. [Minutes] is an optional parameter. If you do not enter a value for this parameter, it takes the default value of 5 minutes.
- Beacon Stop Enclosure EnclosureID
Use this command to stop flashing the lights of all the disk drives of an enclosure. Where EnclosureID is the device ID of the enclosure.
- Beacon Stop HDD EnclosureID SlotNo
Use this command to stop flashing the light of a disk drive. Where EnclosureID is the device ID of the enclosure and SlotNo is the slot number of the disk or ALL.
- Beacon Stop WWID [WWID]
Use this command to stop flashing the lights of the disk drives of an expansion unit. Where [WWID] is the device ID of the expansion unit. If you do not enter a value for this parameter, it displays a list of available expansion WWIDs.