All StorMan commands have some common parameters with a defined range of supported values specified below:
Value | Meaning and supported values |
| IP address: a string of 4 decimal numbers delimited by '.' each in the range from 0 to 255 or ipV6 |
| host name: a string containing alphabetic characters ('A', 'B',... 'Z', 'a', 'b',... 'z', numbers and other signs except: '\', '/', '*', '? ', '"', '<', '>', '|', ' '. Internally it is not case-sensitive. |
| storage ID (storID): a string starting with an alphabetic character ('A', 'B', ..., 'Z', 'a', 'b', ..., 'z') followed by up to 254 characters, numbers, '+', '-', '_' or '.' It should not start with prefix 'SM_' (regardless of case) as this is reserved for internal use. Internally it is not case-sensitive |
| WWPN: a string of 16 or 32 hexadecimal numbers delimited by ':', '-' or without delimiter |
The wildcard '*' is supported for alphabetic character strings as specified in the CLI description. Generally it can be used at any place of the string.
On Linux systems strings that do not contain only letters and numbers, must be enclosed in quotation marks (eg "#all").