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Understanding Arcserve RHA PowerShell Commands

Arcserve RHA PowerShell is offered to users as an alternative or a supplement to managing the replication process using the Arcserve RHA Manager's graphic user interface (GUI). It enlarges and facilities the capabilities of the WS CLI that was provided in previous versions, and it supports both DR and HA operations.

Windows PowerShell™ is a new Windows command-line shell and scripting environment designed especially for system administrators. The shell includes an interactive prompt and a scripting environment that can be used independently or in combination. Unlike most shells, which accept and return text, Windows PowerShell is built on top of the .NET common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework, and accepts and returns .NET objects.

Windows PowerShell™ comes with a large set of built-in commands with a consistent interface. Arcserve RHA PowerShell is based on the standard Windows PowerShell™, while adding to it a number of scenario-related-commands, called snap-ins. These snap-ins, which allow you to configure a replication scenario and control and monitor the replication and switchover processes, are described in this Guide. All the scenarios that are managed by Arcserve RHA PowerShell commands look and operate exactly as the ones that are managed by the Arcserve RHA Manager, and they are automatically saved in the same default location: INSTALL_DIR/ws_scenarios