viosvrcmd

Issue virtual I/O server command.

viosvrcmd issues an I/O server command line interface (ioscli) command to a virtual I/O server partition.

The ioscli commands are passed from the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to the virtual I/O server partition over an RMC session. RMC does not allow interactive execution of ioscli commands.

-m

The name of the managed system which has the virtual I/O server partition to which to issue the command. The name may either be the user-defined name for the managed system, or be in the form tttt-mmm*ssssssss, where tttt is the machine type, mmm is the model, and ssssssss is the serial number of the managed system. The tttt-mmm*ssssssss form must be used if there are multiple managed systems with the same user-defined name.

-p

The name of the virtual I/O server partition to which to issue the command.

You must either use this option to specify the name of the partition, or use the --id option to specify the partition's ID. The -p and the --id options are mutually exclusive.

--id

The ID of the virtual I/O server partition to which to issue the command.

You must either use this option to specify the ID of the partition, or use the -p option to specify the partition's name. The --id and the -p options are mutually exclusive.

-c

The I/O server command line interface (ioscli) command to issue to the virtual I/O server partition.

command must be enclosed in double quotes. Also, command cannot contain the semicolon (;), greater than (>), or vertical bar (|) characters.

--help

Display the help text for this command and exit.