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Save yourself from Gal Bladder (Kidney Stone)
by Citizen Welfare Organisation 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Following is the article extracted from dawn (28/02/05) KARACHI: Reduction in tea urged to check stone formation - Urolithiasis symposium concludes KARACHI, Feb 27: Health experts at a symposium on Sunday recommended that tea and coffee should be reduced and dark-coloured soft drinks, aerated drinks and alcohol should be avoided to prevent formation of urinary stones. They were speaking at the concluding session of three-day urolithiasis symposium, organized by the Sindh Institute of Urology Transplant in association with the European Urolithiasis Society. During the panel discussion on "Are urinary stones preventable?" health professional said that excess oxalates in diet, less fluid intake particularly in hot climate, and warm working environment were common risk factors for stone formation in the urinary tract. Panellists of the session were Dr S.R. Khan from the USA, Dr A. Rodgers from S. Africa, Dr P.N. Rao from the United Kingdom, Dr A. Hesse from Germany, Dr K. Sarica from Turkey, Dr F. Marickar from India, Dr D. Gohel from Hong Kong, Dr N. Laube from Germany, Dr P. Shrivastav from India and Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi. Dr A. Naqvi was the moderator. The joint consensus was that recurrence of stones in a person having had stone disease could be decreased. "General recommendations are that fluid intake should be sufficient to make the urine of a light colour. Plain water, barley water and rice water are beneficial. Yoghurt is also beneficial as it helps to disintegrate bacteria," they said. Earlier, describing the history of urinary tract stone disease, Dr F.A. Khan from Lahore stated that Andersen in 1932 had described southern Punjab as the hot spot for kidney stones. Reporting the results of a survey on bladder stone among children in Punjab, he said that the age at onset was as low as one year, while it was also observed that in Northern Punjab upper tract stones were higher in incidence, whereas in Southern Punjab bladder stones were more common. "Bladder stones in children are closely linked with poverty and diarrhoeal disease," he added. Dr M.D.I. Gohel from Hong Kong discussed whether kidney stones be eradicated by herbal medicines. He delivered an interesting talk on Chinese kampou medicine, being used to inhibit calcium oxalate crystallization. He said that experimental studies had proved that herbal medicines contained substances, which could prevent calcium oxalate aggregation and growth. This could prevent renal stone formation and help to expel the crystal easily, he added. Dr Fazil Marickar from India said that plant extracts, especially scoparia dulcis, had proved very successful in clearing renal injuries produced by oxalate crystals. "Substances as tamarind, plantain stem and horse gram help in passage, reduction of size and movement of stones," he added. Talking on ethnobotanic approaches towards treatment of stone disease, Dr I. Chaudhry said that it was conversion of a natural product into a useful substance. He predicted that in future food fossils would be consumed in larger quantities and research on them would help in using them as therapy for many diseases. Discussing the metabolic aspects of stone disease, Dr Shrivastav from India said that low urinary volume, low citrate and high uric acid levels in urine had been observed in significantly large number of patients with renal stones. "These factors could be taken as predictors for stone formation in the future," he added. -PPI This is a public welfare message and sent one time any ways if u want to unsubscribe then send an email with a subject remove to removemefromlist(a)gawab.com If you want to send your offer to 500,000 peoples then email at khimarketing(a)gawab.com

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RE: Quick access to quota information
by barrie_spence＠agilent.com 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

I've just been busy writing a script to manage and enforce quotas the "UNIX way" (i.e. lock down the quota at the soft limit if the user doesn't cleanup within 14 days of exceeding it). The CPAN Perl "Quota" module works a treat: use Quota; $host='filer'; $volume_path = '/vol/vol1/users'; $uid = 501; ($block_curr, $block_soft, $block_hard, $block_timelimit, $inode_soft, $inode_hard, $inode_timelimit) = Quota::rpcquery($host, $volume_path, $uid); It's pretty fast and appears to work on HP-UX, Solaris and Linux. The only thing you have to watch for is that the results are low while the quotas are resizing (easy to check with a SNMP query). Regards, Barrie -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jacek Nogala Sent: 21 February 2005 09:36 To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Quick access to quota information The landscape: - The company is cable tv providing also Internet services - They intend to use FAS920 in NFS environment (all servers are Linux) - At this very moment they are servicing about 80k users but wanting to be able to service more that 200k - Services for users are to be implemented with UID and GID quotas Requirements: - They need to be able to retrieve quickly information about current quota usage for each specific UID or GID. - The information will be available via: -- Call Center - estimated queries 12 times per minute -- WEB GUI for users - estimated queries 120 times per minute - The quota information should be retrieved within 2 s and should be not older than 30 s - There is not specific requirements regarding method of getting the result (SNMP/RSH/NFS RPC/HTTP are acceptable) We discussed with them SNMPwalk and quota report parsing but they cannot accept it due to high and growing number of users. The most convenient way would be short series of SNMP queries for specific UID / GID. Any suggestions other than "make and parse quota report" are welcome. Best regards, Jacek

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full volume performance
by Charles Bartels 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Hi Folks, It is pretty well know that disk performance start to suffer when the partition begins to fill up. So I am wondering if you would see the same effect with a full volume (traditional or flexible) in a relatively empty aggregate, or a full qtree in a relatively empty volume? Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated. -C.

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RE: F720 head upgrade?
by Jeff Mohler 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

You have some NFS tuning to do in TCP, UDP is fine. This isnt your root problem, but it cant help. Check the output regarding TCP receive buffer sizes. Client vancouver has network problems, NFS retransmits. Check output. Doesnt harm the system, but that client is impacted. Youre fighting performance -vs- storage space. You have a number of 18 and 36G drives. Vol0 is laid out properly given this mix, you dont mix sizes within a given raid group. However disks 16, 18, and 19 are on their own as the raid group of 36G drives for this volume. They are also being beat on pretty hard. I see that your cache hits are 100%, this would cause you to wonder if you need a larger filer, more cache RAM..but that might not be it. You have 100% disk utilization as a fact of life on the system, but you are only doing disk reads for the most part, and NOT heavy ones. Nine to 12Mb/sec max. Thats danged odd. Heres your problem. Vol0. The 18G drives are about 65% busy, 95% reads. The 36G drives are 83% bush, again mostly reads. Vol1 is quiet as a church on bowling night. Solutions: Move data being accessed from vol0 to vol1, make use of the untilized performance you have there if this 60 seconds of history is a normal data activity. Likewise, move some of that date from vol1 to vol0, because you never want over 80% full volumes. ;) Rebuild your volumes. Make vol0 all of the 18G drives, 11data-1parity. Raw about 204Mb. Make vol1 all of the 36G drives, 6data-1parity. Raw about 207Mb. If you did this, your volume sizes would be larger than they are today, because youre not wasting space on mixed sized raid groups of 18 and 36G drives (vol1 is like this), and you end up with a LARGER number of spindles to parellelize your data access across in vol0 with a single volume of more 18G drives. Guaranteed, 100% of your performance problem is that itty bitty second raid group in volume 1. Unfortunately you will have to destroy the village to save it, but once you take the downtime to do so, you might find years of worthwhile performance out of your 720. Of course, you get to play God at work, and save a ton of cash while making thing better with no money spent. Yes, a larger system might reduce the missed cache hits, but 12Mb/sec is WAY less than a properly configured F720 can dish out. Id say you could triple that output easy if you did this. Is a 12drive raid group ok?? Id say YES. ONTAP is wayyyy more resilient than it used to be. You have plenty of drives left if you like, to enable raid_dp as well, which will give a 10data-2parity the basic reliability of two separate 5-1 raid groups, cept you have a larger stripe to make your reads against which seems to be your largest type of data activity according to this perfstat. What size Tshirt do I wear? XXL. :)

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by Angelica Carlton 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

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RE: F720 head upgrade?
by Davin Milun 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

perfstat is a utility that you run from an admin host. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/perfstat/ At 7:45, on Feb 27, 2005, "Michael Fahy" wrote: > > When I type "perfstat" I get "perfstat not found". I did "priv set > advanced" and found a "perf" command (but no perfstat). The only option is > "perf report -t" which produced: ...

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RE: F720 head upgrade?
by Jeff Mohler 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Run a perfstat..or at least tell us what its been up to. Has the file system been full or over 80% for any period of time? A perfstat will shed a TON of light. Id be glad to peek at it if you sent the output my way. :) -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Fahy, Michael Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 8:44 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: F720 head upgrade? My good old F720 seems to have run out of gas. It is now running at 100% CPU utilization all the time and application performance has gotten really bad. I'm hoping to be able to upgrade the head and still use the three drive shelves. But I'm wondering why I'm seeing this poor performance all of a sudden and if it really is normal behavior. The F720 has a gigabit network interface but network usage never goes over 10%. When network usage gets to 5%, which would mean 50 Mbps, the CPU hits 100% and stays there. Is that really the maximum capacity of an F720? The three drive shelves are: Shelf 0: EDM Kernel Version : 0.4 App. Version : 0.0 Shelf 1: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.1 Shelf 2: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.1 What options do I have for replacing the head with a faster one that would work with these shelves?

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Spare Drive Assignment
by Jeff Mohler 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

My customer had to replace a drive, and they asked if a filer can be told (non clustered system) to automagically assign a new drive to the only head in the system? Just seems odd to have to tell the system the ownership of a drive, with only one head in the mix.

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RE: F720 head upgrade?
by Jeff Mohler 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Ohh..those shelves. I -think- theyre FC7s and FC8s. Should work with any head thru the 800 series of filers, I dont recall the official answer on using those with 900s. I get fuzzy with what I know works, and whats supported works. -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Fahy, Michael Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 8:44 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: F720 head upgrade? My good old F720 seems to have run out of gas. It is now running at 100% CPU utilization all the time and application performance has gotten really bad. I'm hoping to be able to upgrade the head and still use the three drive shelves. But I'm wondering why I'm seeing this poor performance all of a sudden and if it really is normal behavior. The F720 has a gigabit network interface but network usage never goes over 10%. When network usage gets to 5%, which would mean 50 Mbps, the CPU hits 100% and stays there. Is that really the maximum capacity of an F720? The three drive shelves are: Shelf 0: EDM Kernel Version : 0.4 App. Version : 0.0 Shelf 1: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.1 Shelf 2: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.1 What options do I have for replacing the head with a faster one that would work with these shelves?

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F720 head upgrade?
by Fahy, Michael 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

My good old F720 seems to have run out of gas. It is now running at 100% CPU utilization all the time and application performance has gotten really bad. I'm hoping to be able to upgrade the head and still use the three drive shelves. But I'm wondering why I'm seeing this poor performance all of a sudden and if it really is normal behavior. The F720 has a gigabit network interface but network usage never goes over 10%. When network usage gets to 5%, which would mean 50 Mbps, the CPU hits 100% and stays there. Is that really the maximum capacity of an F720? The three drive shelves are: Shelf 0: EDM Kernel Version : 0.4 App. Version : 0.0 Shelf 1: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.1 Shelf 2: VEM Kernel Version : 2.5 App. Version : 3.1 What options do I have for replacing the head with a faster one that would work with these shelves?

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Online Banking Records Maintenance
by WAMU Online Banking Maintenance 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

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Converter
by Tim Longo 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi, We plan to migrate from a F740 to an FAS920. Since the 920 has an LVD scsi connector, we'll need an LVD to HVD converter in order to continue using our existing tape library. Anyone using a converter of this type? I've seen several via google, so I'm looking for some feedback from people using this option. Thank you.

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25 Feb '05

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autosupport - logs
by George Kahler 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I have around 50 or so entries in ./etc/log/autosupport directory on all of my filers dating back to July '04. Does anyone know if this is something that can be safely purged ? Why is it being accumulated ? BTW, autosupport is enabled and is working correctly. Thx, George

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24 Feb '05

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routed
by Robert Borowicz 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

DOT 6.4.4 seems to want to run routed by default. Last reboot I missed the fact that it was turned on and now its running with a sizable route table. In my mind there is no reason to run the routed and take up memory space by the ensuing route list. Am I missing something obvious? -Rob

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Destroying failed disks
by Ted Weston 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Good Morning (or afternoon/evening, depending on your location) - I'd like to conduct a quick poll on the process those of you employ to destroy failed filer hard drives. Do you use an outside service to physically destroy it, utilize something akin to 'shred -z,' or an entirely different approach? Thanks, -t

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RE: Destroying failed disks
by Hill, Aaron 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Oops, sorry guys, lost track of the thread and wrote too soon. Of course! How the hell am I going to be able to sanitize a failed disk if it isn't even "seen" by the filer? The encrypted data option is still pretty good and it brings a bunch of security benefits (and additional administration). Otherwise, the industrial magnet sounds like great fun. I wonder what field strength and exposure time is required to guarantee a complete scramble? Hell it probably even depends on the angle that the disk platter is exposed to the magnet. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Sphar, Mike [mailto:Mike_Sphar@bmc.com] Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2005 10:41 AM To: 'Toasters' Subject: RE: Destroying failed disks I think the question would be whether you could actually do a disk sanitize on a failed disk? A friend of mine who works in IT for a steel company recently shared that they "sanitized" a batch of hard disks by taking them out and having them picked up by a giant crane magnet that is normally used for picking up tons of metal. -----Original Message----- From: Hill, Aaron [mailto:aaron.hill@cba.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:03 PM To: 'Ted Weston'; John Stoffel Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: RE: Destroying failed disks Did anyone mention the disk sanitization tool? I was told that this will run through your disk writing diagonal 0's and 1's over all the current data making it unusable. The 6.5 Storage Admin Guide states the following; Disk sanitization is the process of physically obliterating data by means of overwrite patterns on filer or NearStore appliance disks in a manner that precludes recovery of that data by any known recovery methods. The Data ONTAP disk sanitize feature enables you to carry out disk sanitization by using three successive byte overwrite patterns per cycle and a default six cycles per operation, in compliance with United States Department of Defense and Department of Energy security requirements. I did read somewhere that it still may be possible to pull snippets of information off the disks using an electron microscope. I truly have no idea if this is possible or not. If your are that paranoid, it may be time to physically destroy the disks or start thinking about encrypting all of your data before it goes on the disks. If you go for the latter, read more here; http://www.netapp.com/news/print/NEWS_REL_20041026.html Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Ted Weston [mailto:Ted.Weston@oracle.com] Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2005 3:08 AM To: John Stoffel Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: RE: Destroying failed disks Thanks for the reply, John. With this solution, aren't you concerned that something relevant could appear in one of those 8k chunks that WAFL writes? Several credit card or social security numbers might be strung in there. -t -----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:36 AM To: Ted Weston Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: Re: Destroying failed disks Ted> Good Morning (or afternoon/evening, depending on your location) - Ted> I'd like to conduct a quick poll on the process those of you Ted> employ to destroy failed filer hard drives. Do you use an outside Ted> service to physically destroy it, utilize something akin to Ted> 'shred -z,' or an entirely different approach? Well, since the failed disks are shipped back to NetApp under our maint contract, we don't do anything to them. And since they're dead... all we could do is physically destroy them if we were worried about data being stolen. Not a big worry since all you'd get is snippets in random chunks, esp for bigger files. John John Stoffel - Senior Staff Systems Administrator - System LSI Group Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. - http://www.toshiba.com/taec john.stoffel(a)taec.toshiba.com - 508-486-1087 ************** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ************** This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Unless specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or commitment by the sender or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its subsidiaries. We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. ***************************************************************

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RE: Destroying failed disks
by Sphar, Mike 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

I think the question would be whether you could actually do a disk sanitize on a failed disk? A friend of mine who works in IT for a steel company recently shared that they "sanitized" a batch of hard disks by taking them out and having them picked up by a giant crane magnet that is normally used for picking up tons of metal. -----Original Message----- From: Hill, Aaron [mailto:aaron.hill@cba.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:03 PM To: 'Ted Weston'; John Stoffel Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: RE: Destroying failed disks Did anyone mention the disk sanitization tool? I was told that this will run through your disk writing diagonal 0's and 1's over all the current data making it unusable. The 6.5 Storage Admin Guide states the following; Disk sanitization is the process of physically obliterating data by means of overwrite patterns on filer or NearStore appliance disks in a manner that precludes recovery of that data by any known recovery methods. The Data ONTAP disk sanitize feature enables you to carry out disk sanitization by using three successive byte overwrite patterns per cycle and a default six cycles per operation, in compliance with United States Department of Defense and Department of Energy security requirements. I did read somewhere that it still may be possible to pull snippets of information off the disks using an electron microscope. I truly have no idea if this is possible or not. If your are that paranoid, it may be time to physically destroy the disks or start thinking about encrypting all of your data before it goes on the disks. If you go for the latter, read more here; http://www.netapp.com/news/print/NEWS_REL_20041026.html Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Ted Weston [mailto:Ted.Weston@oracle.com] Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2005 3:08 AM To: John Stoffel Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: RE: Destroying failed disks Thanks for the reply, John. With this solution, aren't you concerned that something relevant could appear in one of those 8k chunks that WAFL writes? Several credit card or social security numbers might be strung in there. -t -----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:36 AM To: Ted Weston Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: Re: Destroying failed disks Ted> Good Morning (or afternoon/evening, depending on your location) - Ted> I'd like to conduct a quick poll on the process those of you Ted> employ to destroy failed filer hard drives. Do you use an outside Ted> service to physically destroy it, utilize something akin to Ted> 'shred -z,' or an entirely different approach? Well, since the failed disks are shipped back to NetApp under our maint contract, we don't do anything to them. And since they're dead... all we could do is physically destroy them if we were worried about data being stolen. Not a big worry since all you'd get is snippets in random chunks, esp for bigger files. John John Stoffel - Senior Staff Systems Administrator - System LSI Group Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. - http://www.toshiba.com/taec john.stoffel(a)taec.toshiba.com - 508-486-1087 ************** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ************** This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Unless specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or commitment by the sender or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its subsidiaries. We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. ***************************************************************

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RE: Destroying failed disks
by Hill, Aaron 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Did anyone mention the disk sanitization tool? I was told that this will run through your disk writing diagonal 0's and 1's over all the current data making it unusable. The 6.5 Storage Admin Guide states the following; Disk sanitization is the process of physically obliterating data by means of overwrite patterns on filer or NearStore appliance disks in a manner that precludes recovery of that data by any known recovery methods. The Data ONTAP disk sanitize feature enables you to carry out disk sanitization by using three successive byte overwrite patterns per cycle and a default six cycles per operation, in compliance with United States Department of Defense and Department of Energy security requirements. I did read somewhere that it still may be possible to pull snippets of information off the disks using an electron microscope. I truly have no idea if this is possible or not. If your are that paranoid, it may be time to physically destroy the disks or start thinking about encrypting all of your data before it goes on the disks. If you go for the latter, read more here; http://www.netapp.com/news/print/NEWS_REL_20041026.html Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Ted Weston [mailto:Ted.Weston@oracle.com] Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2005 3:08 AM To: John Stoffel Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: RE: Destroying failed disks Thanks for the reply, John. With this solution, aren't you concerned that something relevant could appear in one of those 8k chunks that WAFL writes? Several credit card or social security numbers might be strung in there. -t -----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:36 AM To: Ted Weston Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: Re: Destroying failed disks Ted> Good Morning (or afternoon/evening, depending on your location) - Ted> I'd like to conduct a quick poll on the process those of you Ted> employ to destroy failed filer hard drives. Do you use an outside Ted> service to physically destroy it, utilize something akin to Ted> 'shred -z,' or an entirely different approach? Well, since the failed disks are shipped back to NetApp under our maint contract, we don't do anything to them. And since they're dead... all we could do is physically destroy them if we were worried about data being stolen. Not a big worry since all you'd get is snippets in random chunks, esp for bigger files. John John Stoffel - Senior Staff Systems Administrator - System LSI Group Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. - http://www.toshiba.com/taec john.stoffel(a)taec.toshiba.com - 508-486-1087 ************** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ************** This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Unless specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or commitment by the sender or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its subsidiaries. We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. ***************************************************************

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Quick access to quota information
by Jacek Nogala 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

The landscape: - The company is cable tv providing also Internet services - They intend to use FAS920 in NFS environment (all servers are Linux) - At this very moment they are servicing about 80k users but wanting to be able to service more that 200k - Services for users are to be implemented with UID and GID quotas Requirements: - They need to be able to retrieve quickly information about current quota usage for each specific UID or GID. - The information will be available via: -- Call Center - estimated queries 12 times per minute -- WEB GUI for users - estimated queries 120 times per minute - The quota information should be retrieved within 2 s and should be not older than 30 s - There is not specific requirements regarding method of getting the result (SNMP/RSH/NFS RPC/HTTP are acceptable) We discussed with them SNMPwalk and quota report parsing but they cannot accept it due to high and growing number of users. The most convenient way would be short series of SNMP queries for specific UID / GID. Any suggestions other than "make and parse quota report" are welcome. Best regards, Jacek

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FC720 stalling
by Simon Waters 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Okay - first post - be gentle. FC720 old and unloved, has finally started having issues where it ceases to handle CIFS request correctly. The problem manifests as a failure to respond to client requests. Two areas of possible "change" I think likely; Linux client mounting the CIF partitons. Wed Feb 16 11:57:57 GMT [de1]: CIFS t2 request 6 not implemented debuginfo( 15d 9e RH9CLIENT) Or the Windows clients finally being stable enough to stay up long enough to exhaust some resource (good riddance to NT4). In particular I'd be interested in seeing what the CIFS Session information looks like on other filers. I see a lot of repeats..... W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 0 W2KIISSERV (WINDOMAIN\iusr_anon - pcuser) 10 91 ... is that normal? However I have no clear handle on what is going wrong. The box just supplies CIFS service to a bunch of W2K webservers using IIS. The problem seems to manifest itself randomly, but does look like it is accumulating over time. Last time it managed 6 days. A reboot or restart of CIFS seems to clear it. When it happens nothing unusual is logged. The box is claiming to handle about 500,000 to 1,000,000 CIFS ops an hour. This doesn't seem to change much when the box fails?! All the status reports look normal. I guess it could be a networking issue, but it only affects the FC720, and is fixed by a reboot. We are in the process of sourcing replacement hardware because is has basically reached the end of it's life. Till recently it "just worked", so no one touched it, and as a result has archaic firmware 2.3_a2. If it was supported and with a future, I'd probably stick a firmware upgrade in straight away and see if this fixes it. But if anyone has any clues where to look, or what might be doing this....

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problems with netapp snapshot backups
by Coder, James (STP) 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

We recently upgraded from a 960 NT cluster to a 980 cluster. Prior to this, the NT backups consisted of taking a snapshot and then backing this up to via CIFS using Veritas NetBackup. Since moving to the new cluster (and moving to DataOnTap 7.0) , we are unable to do this. The error we get is 12:01:54.350 AM: [5896.5736] <16> file_access::V_OpenForRead: ERR - CreateFile() failed: \\?\UNC\STPNAS01\VOL2BU$\~snapshot\backup\project3\QIT Admin\Project Ve locity\Release 5.1\TechnologyTeam\SoftwareInstallation\Windchill\OOTB\ptc\oracle \oo4o\CODEWIZ\DOC\HTML\WIZPROC.GIF (WIN32 5: Access is denied. ) Anyone seen / having similar problems? thx in advance. jcc James C. Coder " Plan the Work - Accept Only One Number 1 Priority at a Time." Sr. UNIX Administrator Guidant Corporation 4100 Hamline Avenue North St. Paul, MN 55112 Tel: 651-582-4797 Fax 651-582-4285 email: james.coder(a)guidant.com "Any views expressed in this e-mail are not those of Guidant Corporation."

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Can you Help? Seeking a senior-level IT Project Manager
by HotJobs＠MicroSurvivor.com 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Dear Business Professional, Your contact info came to my attention while researching the U.K. IT Industry and seeking senior-level project managers within this segment. I am contacting you in the hope that you may be able to offer a referral of someone you believe could be a strong fit in regard to a well-paid employment opportunity that Id like to brief you on. First, please allow me to introduce myself. We are an American company that specialize in searches for expert individuals within the high-tech industry worldwide. We have recently been retained by a London firm to identify a few professional project managers with in-depth expertise in the area of Information Technology and more specifically, with prior working experience within the local or central government. This is an integrator opportunity for my client in the government space and to that end, I am seeking only highly qualified individuals that match my clients requirements 110% and whom are interested in working for a dynamic and prestigious organisation with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Below are the essential criteria a candidate must possess in order to qualify...if you know of someone that may be available, eligible and interested, I would be very grateful if you helped both of us out and forwarded this request to that person. · Demonstrated minimum 3+ years of successful experience within the local or central government · In-depth knowledge of and experience with detailed planning, management, and delivery of complex multi-million pound projects sponsored by local or central government · Experience of project budgetary control and quantifiable experience of having delivery fixed price contracts to time and budget · Previous contribution experience to proposals and bid submissions · Competency in line management of large multi-disciplined staff as well as experience dealing with and managing senior clients on a regular basis · Technical experience with Prince 2 and DSDM · Excellent communications skills for written, verbal, and one-on-one persuasion · Education and special qualifications shall include degree standard; accreditation in Prince 2 and/or DSDM is desirable as well · Must reside and be permitted to work in the U.K. The position is located in the London area Note to Eligible Candidates: The goal is to consult our client as an equal partner and evaluate your interest and eligibility. Please provide a brief summary quantifying examples of your success, references, and your relevant experience matching the above requirements at your earliest convenience. Be sure to include your CV as well in order to be considered. Interviews will commence immediately upon selection of qualified candidates, those of which will be contacted directly by our client with additional detailed information. We are on an urgent timeline as the client is prepared to hire for this position as soon as possible and therefore, honor a quick response to this message. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Karene France Principal Micro Survivor, Inc. Phone: +1 650-248-4831 Fax: +1 408-516-9814 Enabling Emerging Business http://www.microsurvivor.com To opt out of receiving opportunity notifications from us, please click reply and type remove in the subject line. Thank You.

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FAS 9xx and Intel Pro1000
by Aurélien Beaujean 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi, I try to insert an Intel Pro1000 "MX" ethernet (cu) card but it is not detected: slot 11: 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller VI ***** NIC in slot 11: Rev 4-R not supported e11 MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (unknown) Device Type: Rev 4-R memory mapped I/O base 0xa0340000, size 0x20000 memory mapped I/O base 0xa0300000, size 0x40000 I/O base 0xefc0, size 0x40 My others FAS9xx seems to use Intel Pro1000 "TX" ethernet (cu) cards. Is there only Intel Pro1000 "TX" ethernet (cu) card that works with FAS9xx ? There is a special Ontap version for thoses ethernet cards or something special to make it working ? -- Auré

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