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RE: netapp certified expert
by Herbert.Langenbach＠shell.com 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

if this day to day administration includes OSSV, MetroCluster, SnapLock and some other nice NetApp stuff your chances are better than zero. But if you get your hands on the official training material your chances are excellent. Herbert NACE -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Leeds, Daniel Sent: dinsdag 23 januari 2007 18:51 To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: netapp certified expert has anyone completed the netapp certified expert exams? coming from a day to day administration level on filers for many years im interested in what sort of topics they cover and if they are geared towards the real world or more of a training course regurgitation. in so many other vendor/system certs the exams focus on trivial and unrealistic aspects of adminstration--for example, sun certs focusing on adding printers and users via the gui---puhlease. mostly im just trying to figure out if someone could reasonably take the tests on experience alone or do i need to shell out 15K plus on all the little courses to get the courseware and then cram that. thanks -- Daniel Leeds Senior Systems Administrator Edmunds.com

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RE: Aggregate expansion
by Glenn Walker 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

There's also the 'schedule-able' command 'wafl reallocate' that does the same thing. It's very useful, though there is some debate on exactly what happens when snapshots are taken into consideration. Generally speaking, if there is adequate free space, and the data in question is deemed 'fragmented' by the scanner, then it will move it. Not that it much matters, but adding disks to an existing RG vs adding a new RG is about the same: when data is written within an RG, it is striped across the disks in such a fashion that each disk gets x number of contiguous blocks, then it writes to the next disk (64 or 128 depending on the version of ONTAP and disk type). Parity is calculated per stripe. When writing across multiple RGs, WAFL decides how much data per RG to write (tetris, but not the game) and breaks up the writes per RG in this manner. I believe this is in 64MB chunks. Either way, the data is written to the location where the best example of contiguous free space exists. Glenn ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Dekhayser Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:22 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Aggregate expansion All; It was my understanding that you can alleviate the pain caused by an uneven expansion of disks as mentioned below by performing a wafl scan reallocate, anyone have info to contrary? Glenn ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Fox, Adam Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:30 PM To: Suresh Rajagopalan; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Aggregate expansion That depends greatly on the values of N and n, as well as the RAID group size of the aggregate. Done according to best practices, there will be almost no difference. Done poorly, it can make all the difference in the world. My personal view (I'm in no position to speak officially for NetApp) on this to add disks to an aggregate in one of 2 multiples: 1) a whole RG at a time 2) half a RG at a time. This typically allows for a sufficient number of free disks such that you should not expect any noticable performance difference. I realize that not all sites can implement this, but let's look at a worst practice: N = n+1 Fill up the aggregate, then add 1 disk. Ouch! This hurts! So you've seen what I consider to be the best case for adding space, and you've seen the worst case. So how close you are to these extremes should give you can idea of what to expect. I know this isn't a simple answer, but I believe it to be accruate. -- Adam Fox adamfox(a)netapp.com ________________________________ From: Suresh Rajagopalan [mailto:SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:46 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Aggregate expansion Is there any difference between creating an aggregate on a certain number of disks (say n) , and then later expanding the aggregate to N disks, as opposed to creating the initial aggregate on N disks? Suresh

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RE: Aggregate expansion
by Ledbetter, Jason 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Moving from 14->56, no. WAFL does not immediately go and lay out the original data again across all disks. As such, initially new writes should get spread across all of these disks. Thus, one might see a read difference in the near-term that would smooth out over time (IOW, reads from the 'old' 14 disks can only come from those 14 disks.. whereas new reads can come from all 56 disks). (To Rich's point, if you say, went from 56 to 60 disks, the possibility for new writes to go to just the 4 disks for a period of time exists as WAFL "levels" itself out over time.. that would be "hot" disks.) Hope this helps. -jbl -----Original Message----- From: Suresh Rajagopalan [mailto:SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:29 PM To: Borders, Rich; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Aggregate expansion I mean with existing data on the aggregate. To clarify, say I first create an aggregate with 14 disks (and default raid size). Then this aggregate is populated with data. After a period of time the aggregate is expanded by adding disks, say to 56 disks. The question is, is there a difference (in performance, efficiency) between the aggregate as described above and an aggregate that was originally created from all 56 disks? Suresh -----Original Message----- From: Borders, Rich [mailto:Rich.Borders@netapp.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:25 AM To: Suresh Rajagopalan; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Aggregate expansion Yes... You can make hot disks happen. Do you mean without adding any data? Richard D Borders CPR Escalations Engineer RTP, North Carolina USA - Network Appliance, Inc. Email: rborders(a)netapp.com Phone:(919) 476-5236 Cell: (919) 606-5099 Fax: (919) 476-5608 > -----Original Message----- > From: Suresh Rajagopalan [mailto:SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com] > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:46 PM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Aggregate expansion > > Is there any difference between creating an aggregate on a certain > number of disks (say n) , and then later expanding the aggregate to N > disks, as opposed to creating the initial aggregate on N disks? > > > > Suresh > >

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RE: Aggregate expansion
by Fox, Adam 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

That depends greatly on the values of N and n, as well as the RAID group size of the aggregate. Done according to best practices, there will be almost no difference. Done poorly, it can make all the difference in the world. My personal view (I'm in no position to speak officially for NetApp) on this to add disks to an aggregate in one of 2 multiples: 1) a whole RG at a time 2) half a RG at a time. This typically allows for a sufficient number of free disks such that you should not expect any noticable performance difference. I realize that not all sites can implement this, but let's look at a worst practice: N = n+1 Fill up the aggregate, then add 1 disk. Ouch! This hurts! So you've seen what I consider to be the best case for adding space, and you've seen the worst case. So how close you are to these extremes should give you can idea of what to expect. I know this isn't a simple answer, but I believe it to be accruate. -- Adam Fox adamfox(a)netapp.com _____ From: Suresh Rajagopalan [mailto:SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:46 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Aggregate expansion Is there any difference between creating an aggregate on a certain number of disks (say n) , and then later expanding the aggregate to N disks, as opposed to creating the initial aggregate on N disks? Suresh

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RE: Aggregate expansion
by Suresh Rajagopalan 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

I mean with existing data on the aggregate. To clarify, say I first create an aggregate with 14 disks (and default raid size). Then this aggregate is populated with data. After a period of time the aggregate is expanded by adding disks, say to 56 disks. The question is, is there a difference (in performance, efficiency) between the aggregate as described above and an aggregate that was originally created from all 56 disks? Suresh -----Original Message----- From: Borders, Rich [mailto:Rich.Borders@netapp.com] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:25 AM To: Suresh Rajagopalan; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Aggregate expansion Yes... You can make hot disks happen. Do you mean without adding any data? Richard D Borders CPR Escalations Engineer RTP, North Carolina USA - Network Appliance, Inc. Email: rborders(a)netapp.com Phone:(919) 476-5236 Cell: (919) 606-5099 Fax: (919) 476-5608 > -----Original Message----- > From: Suresh Rajagopalan [mailto:SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com] > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:46 PM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Aggregate expansion > > Is there any difference between creating an aggregate on a certain > number of disks (say n) , and then later expanding the aggregate to N > disks, as opposed to creating the initial aggregate on N disks? > > > > Suresh > >

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Aggregate expansion
by Suresh Rajagopalan 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Is there any difference between creating an aggregate on a certain number of disks (say n) , and then later expanding the aggregate to N disks, as opposed to creating the initial aggregate on N disks? Suresh

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RE: Aggregate expansion
by Borders, Rich 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Yes... You can make hot disks happen. Do you mean without adding any data? Richard D Borders CPR Escalations Engineer RTP, North Carolina USA - Network Appliance, Inc. Email: rborders(a)netapp.com Phone:(919) 476-5236 Cell: (919) 606-5099 Fax: (919) 476-5608 > -----Original Message----- > From: Suresh Rajagopalan [mailto:SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com] > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:46 PM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Aggregate expansion > > Is there any difference between creating an aggregate on a certain > number of disks (say n) , and then later expanding the aggregate to N > disks, as opposed to creating the initial aggregate on N disks? > > > > Suresh > >

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RE: Snapvault question
by Glenn Walker 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

This may help: http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb19470 Glenn ________________________________ From: Glenn Walker Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:36 PM To: Glenn Walker; 'Owens, Jeff'; 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Subject: RE: Snapvault question To clarify this further: I _believe_ you can make use of VSM, then implement QSM\SV, but you would end up losing the existing snapvault relationships. I'm not so sure the LREP is much of an improvement on this. I hope I'm wrong. Glenn ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Walker Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:13 PM To: Owens, Jeff; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Snapvault question The only way I know of doing a baseline snapshot with QSM\SnapVault would be utilizing LREP. There are no snapshots at all in common?? Glenn ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Owens, Jeff Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:20 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Snapvault question Question for you guys. I am snapvaulting data from a couple of FAS940's over to an R200. I have lost one of my baseline snapshots on the primary filer and am unable to resync that snapvault since there is no baseline snapshot to reference from. Is there any way to create another baseline snapshot ? Jeff

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RE: Snapvault question
by Glenn Walker 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

To clarify this further: I _believe_ you can make use of VSM, then implement QSM\SV, but you would end up losing the existing snapvault relationships. I'm not so sure the LREP is much of an improvement on this. I hope I'm wrong. Glenn ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Walker Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:13 PM To: Owens, Jeff; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: Snapvault question The only way I know of doing a baseline snapshot with QSM\SnapVault would be utilizing LREP. There are no snapshots at all in common?? Glenn ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Owens, Jeff Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:20 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Snapvault question Question for you guys. I am snapvaulting data from a couple of FAS940's over to an R200. I have lost one of my baseline snapshots on the primary filer and am unable to resync that snapvault since there is no baseline snapshot to reference from. Is there any way to create another baseline snapshot ? Jeff

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RE: Snapvault question
by Glenn Walker 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

The only way I know of doing a baseline snapshot with QSM\SnapVault would be utilizing LREP. There are no snapshots at all in common?? Glenn ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Owens, Jeff Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:20 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Snapvault question Question for you guys. I am snapvaulting data from a couple of FAS940's over to an R200. I have lost one of my baseline snapshots on the primary filer and am unable to resync that snapvault since there is no baseline snapshot to reference from. Is there any way to create another baseline snapshot ? Jeff

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Snapvault question
by Owens, Jeff 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Question for you guys. I am snapvaulting data from a couple of FAS940's over to an R200. I have lost one of my baseline snapshots on the primary filer and am unable to resync that snapvault since there is no baseline snapshot to reference from. Is there any way to create another baseline snapshot ? Jeff

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Oracle Replication & Snapshot-space Queries
by Raj Patel 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, Couple of quick queries - 1. In terms of Oracle data replication - is it worth using low level data replication to another SAN (eg using NetApps tools) or do it via Oracle itself ? Which is 'safer' / 'faster' ? Whats the bandwidth requirement comparison for SAN replication vs database replication ? 2. What sort of space utilisation do people 'allocate' for their snapshot cycle ? Vendors quote storage space and snapshot functionality but seem to gloss over the fact that snapshots eat into the SAN's available space. Thanks in advance, Raj.

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DR suggestions for CIFS
by Ammar Zolkipli 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Guys, I'd require some input for a project I'm involved in. I have two sets of 3050 clusters in two sites. The primary site is serving CIFS data to home and project directories. The secondary site is just the snapvault destination, and tape backup source. Now, we're planning to do a DR implementation for this setup. From what I can recall, there are a few things that you need to do to make it work: 1. have snapmirror and snapvault (SM-SV combo) license at the secondary site. I can turn a snapvaulted volume snapshot into a RW volume. Is that correct? 2. I copy the cifs shares config file from the primary filer, edit it a little bit, and paste it into the secondary filer 3. I need refresh my DNS server to point to the secondary filer IP address using the primary filer hostname. Anything else that I need to do? I heard something about changing netbios names as well, but I don't really understand windows enough to know what that will do to help with the DR. Oh, and also, the MS active directory domain are running on win2k3 servers. I'm assuming that different AD versions will significantly in make DR implementations different? Thanks for any feedback

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RE: wafliron output -- is wafl OK?
by Glenn Walker 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

So far as I know, it's still logged to /etc/messages with output. It will show any corrections and completion status. It does not prompt for committal of changes, unlike wack/wafl_check. Glenn -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Blake Golliher Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:00 PM To: Willeke, Jochen; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: wafliron output -- is wafl OK? Why did you run wafl_iron in the first place? It will log corrections in the messages log, if I remember correctly. Maybe there is a new seperate log under etc/log these days. Is there a reason you ran wafl_iron? -Blake On 1/16/07, Willeke, Jochen <Jochen.Willeke(a)wincor-nixdorf.com> wrote: > Hi toasters... > > currently i am running a wafliron. My question now is, do i get any kind > of output after wafliron has finished?? > Do i see if there where any wrong blocks and if Ontap was able to solve > the problem or not?? > > Or is there any extra command to assure that there is no problem in wafl > left?? > > Regards and thanks for your help > > Jochen >

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wafliron output -- is wafl OK?
by Willeke, Jochen 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Hi toasters... currently i am running a wafliron. My question now is, do i get any kind of output after wafliron has finished?? Do i see if there where any wrong blocks and if Ontap was able to solve the problem or not?? Or is there any extra command to assure that there is no problem in wafl left?? Regards and thanks for your help Jochen

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Re: User defined Notifications
by Jerry 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

If you do this, I assume you had to set some thresholds somewhere on the filer right? I didn't realize that sending those thresholds would do anything other than send snmp traps. I'll consult the docs, but do you have a quick syntax on how you set those thresholds (preferable from the command line). ----- Original Message ---- From: Glenn Marsh <glennm(a)latticesemi.com> To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:27:08 PM Subject: Re: User defined Notifications I have been using SWatch (System Watch) for some time now for this purpose with great success. http://sourceforge.net/projects/swatch/ It is Perl based and fairly easy to configure. ************************************************************************ Glenn Marsh Lattice Semiconductor Corporation Senior Unix Systems Administrator 5555 NE Moore Court CAD Engineering Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 glenn.marsh(a)latticesemi.com 503-268-8000 503-268-8136 phone - 503-268-8459 fax ************************************************************************ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/

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NetApp equivalent of all_squash,anonuid=100,anongid=100
by NetApp 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

I'm trying to set up an NFS path where all clients get squashed to a single UID The normal export doesn't work, as my NFS clients are Linux 2.6 with real uid/gids sent /vol/vol1 -sec=sys,rw,anon=100 In this case, only ROOT client access get squashed to uid 100. Instead, here's what I tried: /vol/vol1 -sec=none,rw,anon=100 Unfortunately, my Redhat Linux client (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) refuses to mount Mounting NFS filesystems: mount: 192.168.1.10:/vol/vol1 failed, security flavor not supported Packet traces show the Linux system sends the MNT request with Flavor AUTH_UNIX, and the NetApp replies OK-Flavor:AUTH_NULL along with the appropriate supplemental fsid file handles. Only, Linux is 'smart' and refuses. I also don't have any server side control over GID either.

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Re: User defined Notifications
by Glenn Marsh 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

I have been using SWatch (System Watch) for some time now for this purpose with great success. http://sourceforge.net/projects/swatch/ It is Perl based and fairly easy to configure. ************************************************************************ Glenn Marsh Lattice Semiconductor Corporation Senior Unix Systems Administrator 5555 NE Moore Court CAD Engineering Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 glenn.marsh(a)latticesemi.com 503-268-8000 503-268-8136 phone - 503-268-8459 fax ************************************************************************

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Re: User defined Notifications
by Jerry 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

We just run an rsh "quota report" every 15 minutes an have a perl script send the emails. This solution becomes more portable if you decide to switch NFS appliances at some later point (but why would you!). We turn on wildcard quotas and get per user usage info too. It would be really nice if you could just set thresholds for alerts from the command line itself and define alerts to be emailed. ----- Original Message ---- From: "Warkentin, Grant" <Grant.Warkentin(a)calgary.ca> To: Christian Mikovits <christian.mikovits(a)cubit.at>; toasters(a)mathworks.com Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 11:35:21 AM Subject: RE: User defined Notifications DFM Works like a charm for us. Included a sample of the mail, [some company specific info stripped], that DFM sends when a User is over Quota. The mail is fully customizable. The DFM_ stuff is substituted with info from DFM when the mail is sent. One gottcha. (DFM version 3.2) We have DFM set to send these once per week. If, in the middle of the week, I restart the filer's disk quota system, then DFM will send these e-mails. Even if a full week has not elapsed. I have to be careful when adjusting quotas to avoid sending out too many alerts. This mostly happens when we adjust tree quotas. For user quotas, I have several default qtrees. To increase a user quota have been moving that H: folders to different qtrees to increase the quota. It's a bit kludgy but it appears to work okay for us (8,500 H: drives). I do not know if it's possible, in DFM, to have these messages sent in real-time. As people exceed their quotas. If you have an app that will read SNMP traps, it's probably possible to create a custom app that will do this. From: Subject: City IT-ACTION REQUEST-Automatic reminder to clean out nearly-full computer network drives Your DFM_QUOTA_TYPE quota on DFM_QUOTA_FILE_SYSTEM_NAME (H: Drive) You (as user "DFM_QUOTA_USER_NAME") have used up DFM_QUOTA_PERCENT_USED (DFM_QUOTA_USED out of DFM_QUOTA_LIMIT) of available DFM_QUOTA_TYPE quota on DFM_QUOTA_FILE_SYSTEM_NAME. Acti 1. Get into the daily habit of deleting files no longer needed. If you're not sure what files should be kept, please contact your business unit Records Coordinator. Computer "H" drives primarily should be storing work in progress. Completed work should be stored in your departmental shared ("S" or other letter) drive. 2. If you think your files require more storage space, you can request a file quota increase by submitting a Help Desk request. This will require approval from your supervisor. Questions or help? Please contact your Event (For IT Use only): DFM_LINK_EVENT Thanks for your assistance and support - Information Technology NOTICE - This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks you for your attention and co-operation. -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Christian Mikovits Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:42 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: User defined Notifications Hi there, I wanted to ask if a filer supports notification for users regarding the fill level of a volume. i know it's possible with external monitoring tools (nagios), but i need something like snmp traps or mails. thx, christian ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/

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User defined Notifications
by Christian Mikovits 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Hi there, I wanted to ask if a filer supports notification for users regarding the fill level of a volume. i know it's possible with external monitoring tools (nagios), but i need something like snmp traps or mails. thx, christian

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RE: User defined Notifications
by Surana, Anshu 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

With DFM it is possible to configure an SNMP trap, email or pager alert for a two thresholds (Nearly Full and Full thresholds). And these thresholds are configurable from DFM. Regards, Anshu. -----Original Message----- From: Willeke, Jochen [mailto:Jochen.Willeke@wincor-nixdorf.com] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:24 PM To: Willeke, Jochen; Christian Mikovits; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: User defined Notifications Another thing which came into my mind is the use of DFM (Data Fabric Manager). This is a tool from Netapp and has the ability to collect a lot of information from your filers and present them via a web-interface and can sent out mails as well. Regards Jochen -----Original Message----- From: Willeke, Jochen Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:50 PM To: 'Christian Mikovits'; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: User defined Notifications Hi Christian, the filer does send out two snmp-traps for volume occupancy. One at 95% and one at 98%. You can define a snmp-traphost which collects the messages. But you are still in a need to have a tool that collects this traps (like nagios does). If you want to use this for users you can also work with quotas, but this only works with qtrees. Best Regards from germany Jochen -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Christian Mikovits Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:42 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: User defined Notifications Hi there, I wanted to ask if a filer supports notification for users regarding the fill level of a volume. i know it's possible with external monitoring tools (nagios), but i need something like snmp traps or mails. thx, christian

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RE: User defined Notifications
by Willeke, Jochen 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Another thing which came into my mind is the use of DFM (Data Fabric Manager). This is a tool from Netapp and has the ability to collect a lot of information from your filers and present them via a web-interface and can sent out mails as well. Regards Jochen -----Original Message----- From: Willeke, Jochen Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 2:50 PM To: 'Christian Mikovits'; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: User defined Notifications Hi Christian, the filer does send out two snmp-traps for volume occupancy. One at 95% and one at 98%. You can define a snmp-traphost which collects the messages. But you are still in a need to have a tool that collects this traps (like nagios does). If you want to use this for users you can also work with quotas, but this only works with qtrees. Best Regards from germany Jochen -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Christian Mikovits Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:42 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: User defined Notifications Hi there, I wanted to ask if a filer supports notification for users regarding the fill level of a volume. i know it's possible with external monitoring tools (nagios), but i need something like snmp traps or mails. thx, christian

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RE: NFS equivalent of "cifs top"?
by Fox, Adam 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Yeah, that's a front-end to nfsstat -l. There's also a lun_top in the ToolChest as well that does the equivalent for LUNs. It front ends the lun stat command as well as some others. -- Adam Fox adamfox(a)netapp.com _____ From: Charles H. Kruger [mailto:ck@princeton.edu] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:30 PM To: Jeff Mery; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: NFS equivalent of "cifs top"? There is a utility available on the NOW website called netapp-top.pl ( http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/ntaptop ) which provides a list of the top NFS clients. -Charles -- Charles Kruger Manager, Unix Systems Office of Information Technology Princeton University phone - (609) 258-7181 From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Mery Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:15 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: NFS equivalent of "cifs top"? Anyone know if this exists? "nfs stat -l" kind of give me what I want, but I'd really like it in the format of cifs top if possible. When the ops for CIFS look out of whack for some reason, it's really easy to find the culprit via cifs top. Would be great to have for nfs too. Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP National Instruments ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - "Allow me to extol the virtues of the Net Fairy, and of all the fantastic dorks that make the nice packets go from here to there. Amen." TB - Penny Arcade ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -

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RE: NFS equivalent of "cifs top"?
by Fox, Adam 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Check and see if you have a "cifs top" command in ONTAP. I'm not sure what release introduced it, but it's on my 7.2 simulator, but I think it's older than that. It has an accompanying option cifs.per_client_stats.enable option like the nfs one. -- Adam Fox adamfox(a)netapp.com _____ From: Jeff Mery [mailto:jeff.mery@ni.com] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:15 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: NFS equivalent of "cifs top"? Anyone know if this exists? "nfs stat -l" kind of give me what I want, but I'd really like it in the format of cifs top if possible. When the ops for CIFS look out of whack for some reason, it's really easy to find the culprit via cifs top. Would be great to have for nfs too. Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP National Instruments ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - "Allow me to extol the virtues of the Net Fairy, and of all the fantastic dorks that make the nice packets go from here to there. Amen." TB - Penny Arcade ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -

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Re: Netapp support
by ScottUCE＠aol.com 12 Jan '07

12 Jan '07

Hi, Glenn: Third parties (non-authorized NetApp resellers) provide the full range of NetApp product and support services, with the principal exception of continuous DataOntap fixes and updates, and can provide a LOT of difference in pricing. Nevertheless, if and when required, unbundled software update contracts can be purchased directly from NetApp or an authorized reseller. Scott Fischmann Union Computer Exchange, Inc. 6233 Idylwood Lane Minneapolis, Minnesota 55436 _scott(a)unioncomputer.com_ (mailto:scott@unioncomputer.com) 952.935.7282 "Helping our customers make each dollar go further - since 1991!" In a message dated 1/10/2007 9:55:36 AM Central Standard Time, ggwalker(a)mindspring.com writes: We use both NetApp and resellers - I cannot see a LOT of difference in their pricing. I'll tell you this, though: if you buy a LOT from them, they'll work with you on the price. Very easy to deal with, in my opinion. Glenn -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Coder, James (STP) Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:56 AM To: Toaster Admins Subject: Netapp support Looking at other options other than netapp for hardware / software support - was wondering who others on the list are using - both stateside and outside the US (OUS). Netapp seems a little too rigid in their pricing / support structure. Thanks in advance for replies. Jc James C. Coder "We're all leaders, and we're leading all the time, well or poorly." - Chris Lowney Sr. UNIX Administrator Boston Scientific Corporation 4100 Hamline Avenue North, M/S F309 St. Paul, MN 55112 email: james.coder(a)guidant.com www.bostonscientific.com Tel: 651-582-4797 Cell: 612-747-5377 Fax 651-582-4285 "Any views expressed in this e-mail are not those of Boston Scientific Corporation."

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