Using the GemFire SHell (gfsh)

vFabric GemFire gfsh (pronounced "gee-fish") provides a single, powerful command-line interface from which you can launch, manage, and monitor vFabric GemFire processes, data, and applications.

• What You Can Do with gfsh
  gfsh supports the administration, debugging, and deployment of GemFire processes and applications.
• Starting gfsh
  Before you start gfsh, confirm that you have set the GEMFIRE and either the GF_JAVA or JAVA_HOME environment variables to the proper locations for your deployment, or that your PATH variable includes the java executable.
• Basic Shell Features and Command-Line Usage
  The gfsh utility provides useful features for a shell environment, including command auto-complete, preserved command history, and delimiting of multi-line commands. Context-sensitive help is available by command and by topic.
• Tutorial: Performing Common Tasks with gfsh
  This topic takes you through a typical sequence of tasks that you execute after starting gfsh.
• Configuring the gfsh Environment
  The gfsh.bat and gfsh bash script automatically append the required GemFire and JDK .jar libraries to your existing CLASSPATH. There are user-configurable properties you can set for security, environment variables, logging, and troubleshooting.
• Useful gfsh Shell Variables
  You can use the built-in gfsh shell variables in scripts.
• Quick Reference of gfsh Commands by Functional Area
  This quick reference sorts all commands into functional areas.
• gfsh Command Help
  This section provides help and usage information on all gfsh commands, listed alphabetically.
• Creating and Running gfsh Command Scripts
  gfsh offers several ways to run commands in a scripting environment.