Metric extensions can be manipulated outside the UI via the Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface (EM CLI). Two categories of verbs are available:

• Metric Extension Verbs

  • export_metric_extension: Export a metric extension to an archive file

  • get_unused_metric_extensions: Get a list of unused metric extensions.

  • import_metric_extension: Import a metric extension archive file.

  • publish_metric_extension: Publish a metric extension for use by all administrators.

  • save_metric_extension_draft: Save a deployable draft of a metric extension.

• User-defined Metric Migration Verbs

  • abort_udmmig_session: Abort (partially) user-defined metric migration session.

  • analyze_unconverted_udms: Analyze the unconverted user-defined metrics.

  • create_udmmig_session: Create a user-defined metric migration session.

  • list_unconverted_udms: List the user-defined metrics that are not yet in a migration session.

  • udmmig_list_matches: List the matching metrics per user-defined metric in a specific user-defined metric migration session.

  • udmmig_request_udmdelete: Request deletion of user-defined metrics from targets.

  • udmmig_retry_deploys: Retry deployment of metric extensions to targets.

  • udmmig_session_details: Retrieve the details of a specific user-defined metric migration session.

  • udmmig_submit_metricpicks: Select the metrics to replace user-defined metrics in a session.

  • udmmig_summary: Summarize the status of all user-defined metric migration sessions.

  • udmmig_update_incrules: Update user-defined metric incident rules to include replacement metric references.

Metric Extension Verbs

  emcli export_metric_extension
       -file_name=<name of the metric extension archive>
       -target_type=<target type of the metric extension>
       -name=<name of the metric extension
       -version=<version of the metric extension>

  Description:
    Export a metric extension archive file.

  Options:
    -file_name=<file name>
      The name of the metric extension archive file to export into.
    -target_type=<target type>
      Target type of the metric extension.
    -name=<name>
      Name of the metric extension.
    -version=<version>
      Version of the metric extension to be exported.


  emcli get_unused_metric_extensions

  Description:
    Get a  list of metric extensions that are deployed to agents but not attached to any targets.


  emcli import_metric_extension
        -file_name=<name of the metric extension archive>
        -rename_as=<name of the metric extension to import as>

  Description:
    Import a metric extension archive file.

  Options:
    -file_name=<file name>
      The name of the metric extension archive file to be imported.
    -rename_as=<metric extension name>
      Import the metric extension using the specified name, replacing the name given in the archive.


  emcli publish_metric_extension
       -target_type=<target type of the metric extension>
       -name=<name of the metric extension
       -version=<version of the metric extension>

  Description:
    Publish a metric extension for use by all administrators. 
  The metric extension must currently be a deployable draft.

  Options:
    -target_type=<target type>
      Target type of the metric extension.
    -name=<name>
      Name of the metric extension.
    -version=<version>
      Version of the metric extension to be published.


  emcli save_metric_extension_draft
       -target_type=<target type of the metric extension>
       -name=<name of the metric extension
       -version=<version of the metric extension>

  Description:
    Save a deployable draft of a metric extension. The metric
  extension must currently be in editable state. Once saved as 
  draft, the metric extension will no longer be editable.

  Options:
    -target_type=<target type>
      Target type of the metric extension.
    -name=<name>
      Name of the metric extension.
    -version=<version>
      Version of the metric extension to be saved to draft.

User-Defined Metric Verbs

  emcli abort_udmmig_session
        -session_id=<sessionId>
        [-input_file=specific_tasks:<complete path to file>]

  Description:
    Abort the migration of user-defined metrics to MEs in a session

  Options:
    -session_id=<id of the session>
      Specify the id that was returned at time of session created,
      or from the output of udmmig_summary
    [-input_file=specific_tasks:<complete file path>]
      This optional parameter points at a file name that contains a
         target, user-defined metric,
      one per line in the following format:
      <targetType>,<targetName>,<collection name>
      Use targetType=Template to indicate a template
      Use * for collection name to abort all user-defined metrics for a target


  emcli analyze_unconverted_udms [-session_id=<sessionId>]

  Description:
    Analyze user-defined metrics and list unique user-defined metrics, any possible matches, and
    templates that can apply these matching metric extensions
  Options:
    -session_id=<id of a session to be reanalyzed>
      Not specifying a session id causes the creation of a analysis
      session that contains all unconverted user-defined metrics. You can specify 
      this session id in future invocations to get fresh analysis.


  emcli create_udmmig_session
      -name=<name of the session>
      -desc=<description of the session>
      [-udm_choice=<specific udm to convert>]*
      {-target=<type:name of the target to migrate> }* 
      | {-input_file=targetList:<complete path to file>};      {-template=<name of the template to update> }* 
      | {-input_file=templateList:<complete path to file>}
      [-allUdms]

  Description:
    Creates a session to migrate user-defined metrics to metric extensions for targets.

  Options:
    -name=<session name>
      The name of the migration session to be created.
    -desc=<session session description>
      A description of the migration session to be created.
    -udm_choice=<udm name>
      If the session should migrate specific user-defined metrics, specify them
      Otherwise, all user-defined metrics will be migrated
    -target=<type:name of target to migrate>
      The type:name of the target to be updated.
      Multiple values may be specified.
    -input_file=targetList:<complete file path>
      This takes a file name that contains a list of targets,
      one per line in the following format:
      <targetType>:<targetName>
    -template=<name of template to migrate>
      The name of the template to update.Multiple values may be specified
    -input_file=templateList:<complete file path>
      This takes a file name that contains a list of templates,
      one name per line
    -allUdms
      This forces the session to contain all user-defined metrics from targets and 
      templates (default behavior just picks those not in a session)

  emcli list_unconverted_udms [-templates_only]

  Description:
    Get the list of all user-defined metrics that are not yet in a migration session

  Options:
    -templates_only
      Only lists unconverted user-defined metrics in templates.


  emcli udmmig_list_matches
        -session_id=<sessionId>

  Description:
    Lists the matching metrics per user-defined metric in a migration session
  Options:
    -session_id=<id of the session>
      Specify the id that was returned at time of session created,
      or from the output of udmmig_summary


  emcli udmmig_request_udmdelete
        -session_id=<sessionId>
        -input_file=metric_tasks:<complete path to file>

  Description:
    Delete the user-defined metrics that have been replaced by Metric Extenions

  Options:
    -session_id=<id of the session>
      Specify the id that was returned at time of session created,
      or from the output of udmmig_summary
    -input_file=metric_tasks:<complete file path>
      This takes a file name that contains a target, user-defined metric,
      one per line in the following format:
      <targetType>,<targetName>,<collection name>


  emcli udmmig_retry_deploys
        -session_id=<sessionId>
        -input_file=metric_tasks:<complete path to file>

  Description:
    Retry the deployment of metric extensions to a target

  Options:
    -session_id=<id of the session>
      Specify the id that was returned at time of session created,
      or from the output of udmmig_summary
    -input_file=metric_tasks:<complete file path>
      This takes a file name that contains a target, user-defined metric,
      one per line in the following format:
      <targetType>,<targetName>,<collection name>


  emcli udmmig_submit_metricpicks
        -session_id=<sessionId>
        -input_file=metric_picks:<complete path to file>

  Description:
    Supply the metric picks to use to replace user-defined metrics per target in a session

  Options:
    -session_id=<id of the session>
      Specify the id that was returned at time of session created,
      or from the output of udmmig_summary
    -input_file=metric_picks:<complete file path>
      This takes a file name that contains a target, user-defined metric, metric pick,
      one per line in the following format:
      <targetType>,<targetName>,<collection name>,[N/E],<metric>,<column>
       using N if a new metric should be created or E if an existing 
       metric is referenced.


  emcli udmmig_summary
      [-showAll]

  Description:
    Gets the summary details of all migration sessions in progress

  Options:
    -showAll
      This prints out all sessions including those that are complete.
      By default, only in-progress sessions are listed.


  emcli udmmig_update_incrules
        -session_id=<sessionId>
        -input_file=udm_inc_rules:<complete path to file>

  Description:
    Update Incident Rules that reference user-defined metrics with a reference to
    replacing metric extension.

  Options:
    -session_id=<id of the session>
      Specify the id that was returned at time of session created,
      or from the output of udmmig_summary
    -input_file=udm_inc_rules:<complete file path>
      This takes a file name that contains rule, user-defined metric, metric,
      one per line in the following format:
      <ruleset id>,<rule id>,<udm name>,<metric name>