title: Basic VMware Tanzu GemFire gfsh Commands by Functional Area
This topic lists basic VMware Tanzu GemFire command-line interface (gfsh) commands, sorted into functional areas.
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| debug |
Activate or deactivate debugging output in gfsh. |
online, offline |
| echo |
Echo the given text, which may include system and user variables. |
online, offline |
| exit |
Exit the gfsh shell. You can also use quit to exit the shell. |
online, offline |
| help |
If the argument is a gfsh command, displays syntax and usage information for the command. If there are no arguments, displays a list of all available commands. |
online, offline |
| hint |
Display information about topics and a list of commands associated with a topic. |
online, offline |
| history |
Show or save the command history. |
online, offline |
| run |
Execute a set of gfsh commands. |
online, offline |
| set variable |
Set variables in the gfsh environment. |
online, offline |
| sh |
Execute operating system (OS) commands. |
offline, online |
| sleep |
Delay gfsh command execution. |
online, offline |
| version |
Display product version information. |
online, offline |
Configuration Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| alter runtime |
Alter configuration properties for a specific member or members while the member or members are running. |
online |
| change loglevel |
Change the logging level on specified servers. |
online |
| configure pdx |
Alter cluster-wide PDX configuration settings for all caches.
Note: This command must be run before starting data members in order to enforce configuration settings. |
online |
| describe config |
Display the configuration of a member. |
online |
| export config |
Export configurations, data, logs and stack-traces. |
online |
| export cluster-configuration |
Export a shared configuration ZIP file that contains cache.xml files, gemfire.properties files and JAR files needed to configure and operate a GemFire cluster. |
online |
| import cluster-configuration |
Import an exported configuration. |
online |
| status cluster-config-service |
Report on the status of the cluster configuration server. |
online |
Data Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| export data |
Export user data from a region to a file. |
online |
| get |
Display an entry in a region. |
online |
| import data |
Import user data from a file to a region. |
online |
| locate entry |
Locate a region entry on a member. |
online |
| put |
Add or update a region entry. |
online |
| query |
Run queries against GemFire regions. |
online |
| remove |
Remove an entry from a region. |
online |
| wan-copy region |
Copy the entries of a region in a WAN site onto the same region in another WAN site, using a gateway sender. |
online |
Deployment Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| deploy |
Deploy JAR-packaged applications to a member or members. Note: When deploying a JAR, the name of the JAR cannot contain any of the following characters: *, !, #, @, ?. |
online |
| list deployed |
Display a list of JARs that were deployed to members using the deploy command. |
online |
| undeploy |
Undeploy the JAR files that were deployed on members or groups using the deploy command. |
online |
Disk Store Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| alter disk-store |
Modify an existing GemFire resource. |
online |
| backup disk-store |
Back up persistent data from all members to the specified directory. |
online |
| compact disk-store |
Compact an online disk store on all members with that disk store. |
online |
| compact offline-disk-store |
Compact an offline disk store. |
online, offline |
| create disk-store |
Define a pool of one or more disk stores, which can be used by regions and client subscription queues. |
online |
| describe disk-store |
Display information about a member’s disk store. |
online |
| describe offline-disk-store |
Display information about an offline member’s disk store |
online, offline |
| destroy disk-store |
Delete a disk store and all files on disk used by the disk store. Data for closed regions that previously used this disk store is lost. |
online |
| list disk-stores |
List all available disk stores in a GemFire cluster. |
online |
| revoke missing-disk-store |
Instruct the members of a distributed system to stop waiting for a disk store to be available. |
online |
| show missing-disk-stores |
Display a summary of the disk stores that are currently missing from a distributed system. |
online |
| upgrade offline-disk-store |
Upgrade offline disk-stores used in GemFire 6.5 or 6.6 installations to a format that is compatible with GemFire or GemFire 7.0 or higher. |
offline |
| validate offline-disk-store |
Validate offline disk stores. |
online, offline |
Durable CQ and Client Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| list durable-cqs |
List durable client CQs associated with the specified durable client id. |
online |
| close durable-cq |
Close the durable CQ registered by the durable client and drain events held for the durable CQ from the subscription queue. |
online |
| close durable-client |
Attempt to close the durable client. The client must be disconnected. |
online |
| show subscription-queue-size |
Show the number of events in the subscription queue. If a CQ name is provided, count the number of events in the subscription queue for the specified CQ. |
online |
Function Execution Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| destroy function |
Destroy or unregister a function. The default is for the function to be unregistered from all members. |
online |
| execute function |
Execute the function with the specified ID. By default, executes on all members. |
online |
| list functions |
Display a list of registered functions. The default is to display functions for all members. |
online |
Gateway (WAN) Commands
GemFire AsyncEventQueue Commands
GemFire Monitoring Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| describe client |
Display details about a specified client. |
online |
| describe member |
Display details of a member with given name/id. |
online |
| export logs |
Export/dump logs to a given directory. |
online |
| export stack-traces |
Export the stack trace for a member or members. |
online |
| gc |
Force garbage collection on a member or members. |
online |
| list clients |
Display a list of connected clients. |
online |
| list members |
Display all or a subset of members. |
online |
| netstat |
Report network information and statistics via the “netstat” operating system command. |
online |
| show dead-locks |
Display deadlocks, logs, metrics and missing disk-stores. |
online |
| show log |
Display the log for a member. |
online |
| show metrics |
Display or export metrics for the entire distributed system, a member or a region. |
online |
| shutdown |
Shut down all members that have a cache. |
online |
| start jconsole |
Start the JDK JConsole monitoring application in a separate process. JConsole automatically connects to a running JMX Manager node if one is available |
online, offline |
| start jvisualvm |
Start the JDK’s Java VisualVM monitoring application in a separate process. |
online, offline |
| start pulse |
Launch the GemFire Pulse monitoring dashboard tool in the user’s default system browser. |
online, offline |
| start vsd |
Launch GemFire Visual Statistics Display (VSD) in a separate process. |
online, offline |
Index Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| clear defined indexes |
Clear all the defined indexes. |
online, offline |
| create defined indexes |
Create all the defined indexes. |
online |
| create index |
Create an index that can be used when executing queries. |
online |
| define index |
Define an index that can be used when executing queries. Then you can create multiple indexes all at once. |
online, offline |
| destroy index |
Destroy or remove the specified index. |
online |
| list indexes |
Display the list of indexes created for all members. |
online |
JMX Connection Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| connect |
Connect to a jmx-manager either directly or via a locator. |
offline |
| describe connection |
Display connection information details. |
online, offline |
| disconnect |
Close any active connections. |
online |
Locator Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| start locator |
Start a locator. The command creates a subdirectory and log file named after the locator. If the locator detects that no other JMX Manager exists, then the locator automatically starts an embedded JMX Manager and connects the current gfsh session to the JMX Manager. |
online, offline |
| status locator |
Displays the status of the specified locator. |
online, offline |
| stop locator |
Stop a locator. |
online, offline |
PDX Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| configure pdx |
Configure Portable Data eXchange for all the caches in the cluster. |
online, offline |
| pdx rename |
Rename PDX types in an offline disk store. |
online, offline |
Region Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| alter region |
Alter the configuration of a region. |
online |
| create region |
Create and configure a region. |
online |
| describe region |
Display the attributes and key information of a region. |
online |
| destroy region |
Destroy or remove a region. |
online |
| list regions |
Display regions of a member or members. If no parameter is specified, all regions in the GemFire distributed system are listed. |
online |
| rebalance |
Rebalance partitioned regions. |
online |
| restore redundancy |
Restore redundancy to partitioned regions and optionally reassign which members host the primary copies. |
online |
| status redundancy |
Display the redundancy status of partitioned regions. |
online |
Server Commands
| Command |
Description |
Availability |
| start server |
Start a GemFire cache server process. |
online, offline |
| status server |
Display the status of the specified GemFire cache server. |
online, offline |
| stop server |
Stop a GemFire cache server. |
online, offline |
