Dell EMC Solutions Enabler CLI Reference Guide

PREFACE

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Purpose

This reference guide provides man pages for all the SYMCLI commands. It also includes information about environment variables, and options files.

Audience

This manual provides reference information for command-line users and script programmers that focus on configuring and managing storage on arrays.

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