creating a standby nic for portgroup using vimsh portgroup set

I have been wanting to script an install of esx 3.02 on ibm blade servers and trying to create a standby setting for nics usingthe following command.

  vimsh -n -e "hostsvc/net/portgroup_set --nicorderpolicy-active=vmnic0 --nicorderpolicy-standby=vmnic1 vSwitch0 VMkernel"

also tried

vimsh -n -e "hostsvc/net/portgroup_set --nicorderpolicy-standby=vmnic1 vSwitch0 VMkernel"

and

vimsh -n -e "hostsvc/net/portgroup_set --nicorderpolicy-standby vmnic1 vSwitch0 VMkernel"

gets error

Current working directory: /usr/lib/vmware/hostd

HOSTINFO: Seeing Intel CPU, numCoresPerCPU 4 numThreadsPerCore 1.

HOSTINFO: hyperthreading disabled, setting number of threads per core to 1.

HOSTINFO: This machine has 2 physical CPUS, 8 total cores, and 8 logical CPUs.

Using system libcrypto, version 90709F

Vmacore::InitSSL: doVersionCheck = true, handshakeTimeoutUs = 120000000

Unsetting unknown path: /vmomi/

here is the vswitch config

Switch Name    Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  Uplinks            

vSwitch0       32          5           32                vmnic1,vmnic0      

  PortGroup Name      Internal ID    VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks            

  VMkernel            portgroup10    76       1           vmnic0,vmnic1      

  Service Console     portgroup0     76       1           vmnic0,vmnic1      

Switch Name    Num Ports   Used Ports  Configured Ports  Uplinks            

vSwitch1       64          3           64                vmnic3,vmnic2      

  PortGroup Name      Internal ID    VLAN ID  Used Ports  Uplinks            

  76 VM Network BNE   portgroup9     76       0           vmnic2,vmnic3      

  74 VM Network BNE   portgroup8     74       0           vmnic2,vmnic3      

  70 VM Network BNE   portgroup7     70       0           vmnic2,vmnic3  

any ideas?