===== vSphere Data Protection CLI =====

When dealing with VDP, a lot of the things you need to do are not possible from the GUI, I will try to list some of the more useful commands that you can use through SSH to the appliance.

  * Status of all services on the VDP appliance
<code>dpnctl status all</code>

  * General status of garbage collection, de-duplication, last checkpoint...etc
<code>status.dpn</code>

  * Changes in the size of the backup per VM, this is good to know for capacity planning
<code>capacity.sh</code>

  * Get a list of running tasks
<code>mccli activity show</code>
This will give a list of activity with IDs as well as the status of each activity.

  * Get the log of a certain activity
<code>mccli activity get-log --id=XXXXXXXXXX</code>
You get the ID from the "show" command, this will give you a nice log of what is going on.

  * Cancel a running activity
<code>mccli activity cancel --id=XXXXXXXXXX</code>

  * Get a list of all registered clients (backup sources)
<code>mccli client show --recursive=true</code>

  * Kick a backup of a single client by hand
<code>mccli client backup-dataset --name=VM_NAME --domain=/DOMAIN/DOMIN</code>
The VM_NAME and DOMAIN you will get from the "show" command


<note>I will keep adding commands in here as I find them</note>