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As you have probably read in cupfighter article: Undocumented Equallogic CLI Commands, there is still much to discover under the hood of these great boxes. You would figure that if Equallogic runs on top of netBSD that it should be possible to run shell commands. Well it is, but you have to leave the Equallogic CLI and open up a bash shell to perform these tasks.

To enter a bash shell on your Equallogic box you open a terminal session to your array and type:

> su exec bash

Be aware of the following message!

You are running a support command, which is normally restricted to PS Series Technical Support personnel. Do not use without instruction from Technical Support.

That simple!

Now you can execute shell commands like ifconfig, uname etc.

From this shell you can also restart the Equallogic Management Engine without rebooting your controllers. In my case it solved issues with replication schedules that did not get executed anymore. You just enter:

# eqlinit restart MgmtExec

To check the status of the MgmtExec you enter:

# eqlinit status

NB. Be careful because entering the bash shell and executing commands from here is not supported by Equallogic!!