This topic describes what you can do with gfsh, the VMware Tanzu GemFire command-line interface.
gfsh supports the administration, debugging, and deployment of GemFire processes and applications.
With gfsh, you can:
- Start and stop Tanzu GemFire processes, such as locators and cache servers
- Start and stop gateway sender and gateway receiver processes
- Deploy applications
- Create and destroy regions
- Execute functions
- Manage disk stores
- Import and export data
- Monitor Tanzu GemFire processes
- Launch Tanzu GemFire monitoring tools
The gfsh command-line interface lets developers spend less time configuring cache instance XML, properties, logs, and statistics. gfsh commands generate reports, capture cluster-wide statistics, and support the export of statistics, logs, and configurations.
Like Spring Roo, gfsh features command completion, context-sensitive help, scripting, and the ability to invoke any commands from within an application by using a simple API. The gfsh interface uses JMX/RMI to communicate with GemFire processes.
You can connect gfsh to a remote cluster using the HTTP protocol. For more information about this, see Using gfsh to Manage a Remote Cluster Over HTTP or HTTPS.
By default, the cluster configuration service saves the configuration of your GemFire cluster when you create GemFire objects using gfsh. You can export this configuration and import it into another GemFire cluster. For more information about this, see Overview of the Cluster Configuration Service.
