generated: '2026-08-01'
method: searched
source: https://support.infinidat.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002106477-InfiniShell-session-controls
summary: >-
  Infinidat ships InfiniShell, the first-party command line interface to InfiniBox. It is one of
  the three documented InfiniBox management consoles alongside InfiniAPI (the REST API) and the
  HTML5 GUI, and it speaks to the same REST surface. It presents a POSIX-like shell with tab
  completion over InfiniBox resources, and can emit machine-readable output, which makes it the
  scriptable front door for operators who are not calling the API directly.
clis:
- name: InfiniShell
  vendor: Infinidat
  official: true
  target: InfiniBox / InfiniBox SSA arrays
  docs: https://support.infinidat.com/hc/en-us
  docs_public: false
  docs_note: >-
    The InfiniShell Command Reference and the "Introduction to InfiniShell / General and Special
    Commands / InfiniBox Commands" documentation are published as PDFs in the support portal's
    Documentation category, which requires a customer login. Only the surface described below is
    verifiable from public sources.
  install:
  - method: bundled
    note: Distributed with the InfiniBox host tooling; also available from the Infinidat application repository.
  - method: repository
    url: https://repo.infinidat.com/
    note: 'Infinidat''s public application repository (main-stable) serves host-side packages.'
  interface:
    style: posix-shell
    features:
    - tab completion over InfiniBox resources and commands
    - cross-session command history
    - interactive and single-command (non-interactive) invocation
  output_modes:
  - {mode: table, default: true}
  - {mode: csv}
  - {mode: json, note: 'the mode to use when scripting against InfiniShell rather than the REST API'}
  options:
  - {name: request timeout, description: 'per-request timeout for the underlying API calls'}
  - {name: SSL/TLS, description: 'toggle encrypted transport to the array management interface'}
  config_file: infinishellrc
  config_note: Session controls and defaults are persisted in the infinishellrc configuration file.
  command_surface:
    documented_publicly: false
    note: >-
      The full command tree is only published inside the login-walled InfiniShell Command
      Reference. It is deliberately NOT reproduced or guessed here. The resource families the
      commands operate over are the same ones the REST API and the Ansible collection expose -
      system, config, components (racks / nodes / ports / drives), pools, volumes, filesystems,
      hosts and clusters, exports, network spaces, users and user repositories, metadata, events
      and notification rules, replication, snapshots and snapshot policies, QoS.
other_command_line_tooling:
- name: ansible-galaxy collection infinidat.infinibox
  kind: automation-modules
  official: true
  url: https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/infinidat/infinibox/
  note: >-
    Not a CLI, but the declarative command surface most Infinidat customers automate with.
    21 modules over the same resources; see packages/infinidat-packages.yml.
- name: infinisdk
  kind: sdk-with-console-entrypoints
  official: true
  url: https://pypi.org/project/infinisdk/
  note: >-
    InfiniSDK depends on click and installs console scripts, but Infinidat documents it as an SDK
    rather than as a CLI product.