3.6.4. Display an Operation Description using the Management CLI

Prerequisites

Procedure 3.17. Execute the Command in Management CLI

  • Run the read-operation-description operation

    From the Management CLI, use read-operation-description to display information about the operation. The operation requires additional parameters in the format of a key-value pair to indicate which operation to display. For more details on operation requests, refer to the topic Section 3.5.8, “Use Operations and Commands in the Management CLI”. 
    [standalone@localhost:9999 /]:read-operation-description(name=name-of-operation)

Example 3.9. Display the list-snapshots operation description

The following example shows the method for describing the list-snapshots operation. 
[standalone@localhost:9999 /] :read-operation-description(name=list-snapshots)
{
    "outcome" => "success",
    "result" => {
        "operation-name" => "list-snapshots",
        "description" => "Lists the snapshots",
        "reply-properties" => {
            "type" => OBJECT,
            "value-type" => {
                "directory" => {
                    "type" => STRING,
                    "description" => "The directory where the snapshots are stored"
                },
                "names" => {
                    "type" => LIST,
                    "value-type" => STRING,
                    "description" => "The names of the snapshots within the snapshots directory"
                }
            }
        },
        "read-only" => false
    }
}
Result

The description is displayed for the chosen operation.

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