How to use Areca CLI

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Areca CLI

In order to monitor, configure or get a report from an Areca RAID controller, the best tool to use is the Areca command line interface names cli32 or cli64 (for 64 bit systems). Commands are mostly the same for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions therefore the following examples will be using cli32.

Some basic examples:

Show a list of possible commands:

cli32 main

Show the current RAID set (for specific commands, add the -h or -help argument) :

cli32 rsf info

Show the current volume set (for specific commands, add the -h or -help argument) :

cli32 vsf info

Show disk properties:

cli32 disk info

Show 1st disk properties:

cli32 disk info drv=1

Show the event log:

cli32 event info

Show detailed controller information:

cli32 sys info

Show additional details:

cli32 sys showcfg

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