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RE: Vol copy max speed ? alternatives ?
by Moore, Duncan 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

I have performed lab testing of baseline (initial) SnapMirror transfers over direct connected GigE and seen transfer rates exceed 1.3GB/min... roughly 78GB/hour... This testing was performed on an F85! Duncan -----Original Message----- From: FPS France [mailto:fpsfrance@fps.fr] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:20 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Vol copy max speed ? alternatives ? Hi everyone, We are looking for a high rate migration operation which could let us move a volume from a disk shelf to another. In a first place, we think of using the vol copy command. We thaught we could easily manage a strong volume copy rate but it appeared the rate is buggy limited to 36Gb/hour (as if the Filer was copyinbg over a 'perfect' 10Bas-T interface) : http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=3.0.7295526.2875209& resource= In looking around we found papers dealing with others interface kinds : http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=3.0.7295507.2875209 The limit are 25GB/hr over 100Base-T interface, and 28GB/hr over FDDI so less than a 'perfect' 10Base-T interface. (on a F630 Filer :) Reasons given by the NetApp support is the CPU has a bunch of work in calculating optimizations of read and write operations. But I would be sure we are really not strunglled by any other limitations. So here are our two questions : - (just to be sure) did anyone succed in using the vol copy command once and go beyond these limits ? -what is your opinion about that alternative : plug the Filer on a private Giga-ethernet network and make a manual copy (copy -R mnt/nac/vol0 /other_place ) of the whole volume from a shelf to the other. Do you think we could obtain real high rate transfers while keeping the integrity of the volume ? (the volume is a root volume with the "/etc" directory), no special tricks needed (if I use Windows, may I expect ACL modifications) ? I thank you in advance.

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RE: Microsoft Cluster Server and Netapps
by Watanabe, Steve 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

> From: Barry Lustig [mailto:barry@lustig.com] > > "Watanabe, Steve" wrote: > > > > > From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org] > > > > > > Is anyone using Netapps as a data storage backend for > MSCS-aware > > > applications? I've read the white paper on SQL Server 7 > and MSCS at > > > ... > > What about using a small shared SCSI drive for the quorum stuff and > using the toaster for the actual storage? > I don't recall if there is a resource DLL that support network drives. If so then your suggestion would work and the filer would exist nicely with MSCS. If there isn't a resource DLL then one could still use it with an application under the control of MSCS but the filer access (online, offline, etc) wouldn't be under MSCS control.

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User triggered autosupport
by Kennard, Dave M SSI-ISEL-31 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

Has anyone ever had a problem with manual autosupports? (filer> option autosupport.doit subject) If I do a manual autosupport from the box it hangs up and does not respond (NT Shares, Telnet, RSH) for about 5 to 10 minutes the only connection that works id the Serial / Console port then the filer comes back on the network by itself. Anyone seen anything like that before? I have an F840 running OnTAP 6.0.1r3 with only CIFS installed. Dave M. Kennard.

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Win2K Sync Question
by Honeycutt, Michael 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

Anyone noticed any problems with a Win2K Pro workstation trying to syncronize drives to a filer. I have an F840 running DOT6.1 and several people get sync errors. I noticed its only when trying to sync home drives on our filer, doesnt do when syncing to the NT servers. Thanks. Michael Honeycutt MCSE/A+ Systems Engineer IBM Global Services

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RE: Microsoft Cluster Server and Netapps
by White, Lance 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

Legato Cluster has supported NT4/W2K since 1998. Latest version does registry update monitoring. I've done this in an Active-Active mode, but it doesn take some careful thought in architecting the data patterns, might not be for the faint-at-heart. Lance -----Original Message----- From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:03 AM To: Jack Verdirame Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: Microsoft Cluster Server and Netapps On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jack Verdirame wrote: > > If you want a "free clustering service", if you consider buying > another machine and MS license Free, with a Active-Passive type > implementation go with MSCS. So MSCS does not support active-active clustering with shared storage and shared IP? The docs I've skimmed aren't particularly clear on this point. I do remember playing with a load balancing feature within W2K which would seem to work very well for a farm of IIS servers, all sharing content from a common filesystem on a Netapp. Probably won't work for SQL or Exchange though. > http://www.integratus.com/ are a good place to start. This looks interesting... Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD support (which is the bulk of the servers we run), but no NT/2K yet, unfortunately. Thanks for the pointer. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob(a)risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

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Microsoft Cluster Server and Netapps
by Brian Tao 21 Jun '01

21 Jun '01

First thing I'll say is that I know almost nothing about the way Windows NT or 2000 works, and when someone tries to explain it to me, I always wonder why a simpler and more direct UNIX-like approach wasn't used. But anyway... :) Is anyone using Netapps as a data storage backend for MSCS-aware applications? I've read the white paper on SQL Server 7 and MSCS at http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3084.html, but do those principles apply to any clustered application? I read Microsoft's own MSCS FAQ, and although it starts off saying it needs a shared storage backend, it goes on to mention only shared SCSI devices... nothing about FibreChannel or CIFS. It also needs a shared "quorum" disk, which somehow allows MSCS to determine which servers in the cluster are down (but the FAQ doesn't say how exactly the negotiation is done). More specifically, has anyone deployed the e-Assist suite of CRM applications on filer backends? The vendors says they use MSCS for clustering, and recommend local RAID storage for all the servers. Given that they say 35 dual-CPU servers are needed to handle 1000 users (ridiculous, but that's another story), I'm not particularly thrilled to have to maintain locally-attached storage for all of them, and I would rather take advantage of the existing pair of F740s. Hoping someone can help me differentiate conventional wisdom ("you can't run databases on NAS") from true wisdom ("sure you can, if you set things up right") when it comes to NT/2000 clustering... thanks. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob(a)risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

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Data ONTAP 6.1 & Budtool 4.6.1
by Audrey Reed 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Is anyone running DataONTAP 6.1 and backing it up (via ndmp) with Budtool 4.6.1 (either over the network or direct connected)? Any comments? If it matters, this is on a F760. Regards, Audrey

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Solaris as ndmp server?
by Jeff Kennedy 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Is there software that will run on Solaris and allow it to use ndmp? I am trying to migrate some data from a NetApp to a SAN box and would like to use ndmpcopy from the filer to the Solaris server instead of rsync. The reason for this migration is vendor driven and not negotiable. Thanks. -- ===================== Jeff Kennedy Unix Administrator AMCC jlkennedy(a)amcc.com

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RE: Configuring Netbackup for NDMP 3.4
by Chitre, Amol 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Hi Jan, I think this is a problem with setting up the NDMP connection. First... is matterhorn reachable from the client where Veritas is installed? Try the ping command. Next, could you verify that the password for user root on the filer is indeed the same as what is registered with veritas? If not, reconfigure Veritas set_ndmp_attr. To help debug further, run the command "ndmpd debug 50" on the filer console. Now run the set_ndmp_attr -verify again. See if you get any ndmp logs printed on the console. If you do, the NDMP connection/authentication is fine. And we can proceed to the robot. Let me know if you need more help or run into more trouble :-). Thanks, Amol. PS: once you are done, you may switch the ndmpd debug mode off with the command... filer> ndmpd debug 0 >-----Original Message----- >From: Schepers, Jan [mailto:Jan.Schepers@atosorigin.com] >Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:12 AM >To: toasters(a)mathworks.com >Subject: Configuring Netbackup for NDMP 3.4 > > >Hello folks, > > >using Networker 3.4 on a HP9000/J6000 and a F85 netapp NDMP host. >I authorosize access to the NDMP host as follows: > > set_ndmp_attr -auth matterhorn root > >after which I'm asked to give me the password (twice). >The command > > set_ndmp_attr -list > >suggest that every thing went okay > > Record Type: Authentication > NDMP Server: matterhorn > Username : root > Password : <registered> > > Record Type: Robotic Information > NDMP Server: matterhorn > Device : spt0 > Controller : 5 > SCSI Id : 1 > SCSI LUN : 0 > >But real verification fails: > > set_ndmp_attr -verify matterhorn > > > Connecting to host "matterhorn" as user "root"... > Failed > set_ndmp_attr: host "matterhorn" failed > set_ndmp_attr: unable to continue > >What's cooking? and what should I do to repair? > >rgds, > >YS >

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Qtree Utilization Alerts
by Dale Wolf 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

I am looking for a tool to send alerts in the form of email or NT alerts when a Qtree reaches some threshold or percentage (say 80%) of it's quota. I want to be able to extract or construct the alert only for certain Qtrees. Our Qtree naming standard makes it simple to identify an NTFS Qtree. I've thought about automatically generating the Qtree report and writing a tool to parse the information out of the report and generate any alerts needed. Any tools or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

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Re: SV: legato netapp client
by Davin Milun 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

We have similar performance problems with the Legato NetApp client. The NetApp's that we're backing up this was are old F520's, and we get no more that about 1.2MB/sec during backups (but get easily over 6MB/s during regular heavy I/O). Looking at mrtg graphs of the filer during backups has shown the problem: CPU. While these Legato dumps are running, the CPU is held about 95% busy! Since we only use Unix/NFS mounts off the filers, we're about to start backing up by NFS mounts to our backups host. We'll try ndmp at a later stage. Davin. -- Davin Milun Juno Online Services, Inc. milun(a)staff.juno.com http://www.juno.com/ At 10:43, on Jun 18, 2001, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Christian_S=F8nder?= wrote: > Hi Peter, > > We are using the legato netapp client on our filers, and have been doing it > for a while - primarely because it then acts like any other client to our > Legato Server. > My expereience is a bit mixed - it's working allright, I can do redirectied > recover of it's data or recover dirctly to the filer, my problem is 1) > speed: It's attached to my LAN via a 100MBit full duplex interface, but I > only get about 5MB/sek; Im not sure where the problem is, it's alot of small > files so it can be on both the filer and the server .... but we are looking > into it now :) 2) It's not being maintained in the future, our support tells > us that NetApp is going to use NDMP instead :( > Med venlig hilsen, Best regards > > Christian Sønder, System administrator > TDC Internet (http://www.opasia.dk http://www.zillion.dk) > Olof Palmes Alle 36, DK - 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark > Tlf: +45 86 78 63 12, Fax +45 86 78 38 00 > e-mail: mailto:chso@int.tele.dk > > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Peter D. Gray [mailto:pdg@uow.edu.au] > Sendt: 18. juni 2001 08:56 > Til: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Emne: legato netapp client > > > It seems most people on this list are using NDMP for backup > of their filers. However, I would like to avoid that if I can. > > Does anybody have expereience with the legato netapp client > and does anybody know if that product is being maintained > into the future? > > Regards, > pdg > > -- > > See mail headers for contact information.

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RE: Configuring Netbackup for NDMP 3.4
by Traitel, Eyal 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Can you check if ndmpd is on on the filer side with: ndmpd status and then run ndmpd on If it was not up ? ----------------------------------------------------------------- eTraitel - I'm the new eBuzzword around !!! Filer Escalation Engineer CNA, MCSE, CSA, LCA, NetApp CA Network Appliance BV Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Office: +31 23 567 9685 Cellular: +31 6 5497 2568 Get answers NOW! - NetApp On the Web - http://now.netapp.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Schepers, Jan [mailto:Jan.Schepers@atosorigin.com] Sent: Mon, June 18, 2001 13:12 To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Configuring Netbackup for NDMP 3.4 Hello folks, using Networker 3.4 on a HP9000/J6000 and a F85 netapp NDMP host. I authorosize access to the NDMP host as follows: set_ndmp_attr -auth matterhorn root after which I'm asked to give me the password (twice). The command set_ndmp_attr -list suggest that every thing went okay Record Type: Authentication NDMP Server: matterhorn Username : root Password : <registered> Record Type: Robotic Information NDMP Server: matterhorn Device : spt0 Controller : 5 SCSI Id : 1 SCSI LUN : 0 But real verification fails: set_ndmp_attr -verify matterhorn Connecting to host "matterhorn" as user "root"... Failed set_ndmp_attr: host "matterhorn" failed set_ndmp_attr: unable to continue What's cooking? and what should I do to repair? rgds, YS

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Configuring Netbackup for NDMP 3.4
by Schepers, Jan 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

Hello folks, using Networker 3.4 on a HP9000/J6000 and a F85 netapp NDMP host. I authorosize access to the NDMP host as follows: set_ndmp_attr -auth matterhorn root after which I'm asked to give me the password (twice). The command set_ndmp_attr -list suggest that every thing went okay Record Type: Authentication NDMP Server: matterhorn Username : root Password : <registered> Record Type: Robotic Information NDMP Server: matterhorn Device : spt0 Controller : 5 SCSI Id : 1 SCSI LUN : 0 But real verification fails: set_ndmp_attr -verify matterhorn Connecting to host "matterhorn" as user "root"... Failed set_ndmp_attr: host "matterhorn" failed set_ndmp_attr: unable to continue What's cooking? and what should I do to repair? rgds, YS

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RE: will there be locking on oracle database files in the filer?"
by Chetrit Marc 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

We use a similar configuration with HP servers (3 machines in an MC/ServiceGuard cluster), and I can say that ORACLE locks database and control files, so I don't think it's possible that 2 different machines open the same database. BUT, one problem we get is that : - When a node running ORACLE database is down (hardware problem for example), files stay locked - It's then impossible to start the same database on an other node. The only standard issue is to restart the first node so that locks are free (but this issue is not availabe if the node has a real hardware problem!!!) The only issue we got to solve that is to use a NETAPP undocumented command that releases all locks. _______________________________________________ Marc Chetrit SIEMENS AUTOMOTIVE SA SASAOI ITS Back Office BP 1149 Avenue du Mirail Phone : 33 (5) 6119 8421 31036 Toulouse Cedex France Fax : 33 (5) 6119 2515 mailto:marc.chetrit@at.siemens.fr <mailto:marc.chetrit@at.siemens.fr> -----Original Message----- From: Link, Bill (OTS-EDH) [mailto:Bill_Link@billing.com] Sent: vendredi 15 juin 2001 21:34 To: 'luis santos'; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: will there be locking on oracle database files in the filer?" Why not configure the aix servers as a hacmp cluster and define the oracle instance as a resource group? With nfs mounts it only takes a couple of minutes to complete the failover and bring up oracle on the backup server. Bill Link OTS inc. -----Original Message----- From: luis santos [mailto:ls1957_1999@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:13 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: will there be locking on oracle database files in the filer?" we will be configuring two aix servers as a backup to each other, with a 740 having the database files NFS mounted on the two aix servers. we will define the same oracle 7.3.4 instance to each machine and only one will be active, the second instance only to be started if the primary aix server is dead. if the primary instance is already running, will there be a locking mechanism that will prevent the other instance from starting up? this is to see if there is a possiblity of corruption if someone makes a mistake and starts the second instance when the primary is already running __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ Notice: This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential and prohibited from disclosure or unauthorized use under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or copying of this e-mail or the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender. If you have received this transmission in error, please return the material received to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Thank you.

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legato netapp client
by Peter D. Gray 18 Jun '01

18 Jun '01

It seems most people on this list are using NDMP for backup of their filers. However, I would like to avoid that if I can. Does anybody have expereience with the legato netapp client and does anybody know if that product is being maintained into the future? Regards, pdg -- See mail headers for contact information.

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RE: NOW software downloads
by Bagg, Rod 16 Jun '01

16 Jun '01

Todd, Here is the remaining answer from Renee La Londe (e-Services): "Our legal department won't let us get around enforcing the acceptance of the license. But we can put the continue buttons somewhere on the top and not make "hidden" where you have to scroll down. Great feedback and we will look into that pronto."

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Re: NOW software downloads
by Bagg, Rod 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Todd, The intent of the metrics is to show current FCS and GA releases for the purpose of making informed upgrade decisions. We decided not to show old releases because we felt they were largely irrelevant in the decision to upgrade. The 6.0x and above metrics that you're seeing are based on the platform you are selecting for upgrade. If you select F500 series platform for example, you'll see the release metrics for 5.3.7. If you go to the "Bugs Online" page, you can see all metrics for all FCS and GA releases on one page, regardless of platform using the "Release Metrics" tool. Thanks for the comments on the tool - much appreciated. Rod Bagg Director, Sustaining Engineering Network Appliance rbagg(a)netapp.com 408-822-6042 (voice) 408-994-2696 (pager) 408-205-9533 (cell)

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CIFS issues when upgrading to 6.X
by Lance R Bailey 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

i'm upgrading our NFS based 760 cluster to 61R1. easy enough, i've done that before. our NT team has asked that i upgrade their shiny new 760 CIFS based machine to 61R1 at the same time. i plan to do it using the same procedure, but am wondering if there are any CIFS-based gotchas. i am not a cifs-friendly person, so this is pretty much black art and our NT team is still pretty new to netapps. sort of the blind in one eye leading the blind in the other eye. this will be during a scheduled outage, so losing CIFS connexions due to reboots is not an issue. thanks -- email: lance_bailey(a)pmc-sierra.com box: Lance R. Bailey, unix Administrator vox: +1 604 415 6646 PMC-Sierra, Inc fax: +1 604 415 6151 105-8555 Baxter Place http://www.lydia.org/~zaphod Burnaby BC, V5A 4V7 "Either that wallpaper goes -- or I do!" -- Oscar Wilde's dying words

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RE: will there be locking on oracle database files in the filer?"
by Link, Bill (OTS-EDH) 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Why not configure the aix servers as a hacmp cluster and define the oracle instance as a resource group? With nfs mounts it only takes a couple of minutes to complete the failover and bring up oracle on the backup server. Bill Link OTS inc. -----Original Message----- From: luis santos [mailto:ls1957_1999@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:13 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: will there be locking on oracle database files in the filer?" we will be configuring two aix servers as a backup to each other, with a 740 having the database files NFS mounted on the two aix servers. we will define the same oracle 7.3.4 instance to each machine and only one will be active, the second instance only to be started if the primary aix server is dead. if the primary instance is already running, will there be a locking mechanism that will prevent the other instance from starting up? this is to see if there is a possiblity of corruption if someone makes a mistake and starts the second instance when the primary is already running __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ Notice: This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential and prohibited from disclosure or unauthorized use under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, or copying of this e-mail or the information contained in this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender. If you have received this transmission in error, please return the material received to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Thank you.

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NOW software downloads
by Todd C. Merrill 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Ho-ray: Was just downloading some software from NOW.... Hey, there are these neat "metrics" on one of the pages. Cool! How about adding older releases, please? Only 6.0.x and higher are listed. Gripe: And, why when I'm downloading the software do I need to read a full page or two of licensing before clicking "accept." You know who I am, the cookies are enabled; yes, of course I accept. Declining just brings me back to the intermidably long features/limitations/bugs/doc/upgrade page anyway. Clever, the way the "continue" button to actually *download* the software is hidden way at the bottom... I assume all this information is contained in what I'm downloading, yes? Until next time... The Mathworks, Inc. 508-647-7000 x7792 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA 01760-2098 508-647-7001 FAX tmerrill(a)mathworks.com http://www.mathworks.com ---

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will there be locking on oracle database files in the filer?"
by luis santos 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

we will be configuring two aix servers as a backup to each other, with a 740 having the database files NFS mounted on the two aix servers. we will define the same oracle 7.3.4 instance to each machine and only one will be active, the second instance only to be started if the primary aix server is dead. if the primary instance is already running, will there be a locking mechanism that will prevent the other instance from starting up? this is to see if there is a possiblity of corruption if someone makes a mistake and starts the second instance when the primary is already running __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/

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RE: little off topic -- where to stay in Sunnyvale?
by Tavassoli, Serena 15 Jun '01

15 Jun '01

Or you could make life easier for Michael and direct him to the Wyndham Hotel, that is 2 miles away from NetApp. Wyndham Hotel 408-747-0999 -Serena -----Original Message----- From: Rubright, Dave [mailto:daver@netapp.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:56 AM To: 'Michael Galloway'; Toaster Mail Exploder Subject: RE: little off topic -- where to stay in sunnyvale? http://www.netapp.com/education/training/directions_accommodations.html -dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Galloway [mailto:mgx@ornl.gov] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:08 AM > To: Toaster Mail Exploder > Subject: little off topic -- where to stay in sunnyvale? > > > ok, i've signed up for the ontap classes, and was just > wondering where others > who have taken the classes in sunnyvale have stayed? any > decent places withing > walking distance to the netapp offices? > > -- michael >

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/etc/rmtab [was: re: showmount?]
by Chris Thompson 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

I wrote [...] > > It seems that in 6.x the process of compacting /etc/rmtab by removing the > cancelled entries is done much more often. I deduce this from the snapshots > of it that show the inode number changing, and the size going down as well as > up. I haven't got enough data points yet to determine whether the compaction > is done at constant intervals, or when rmtab goes over a particular size, > or %-wise too full of cancelled entries, or whatever. I'm keeping an eye > on it now and will find out in due course ... :) My best fit to the observations is that a new clean /etc/rmtab is written when the proportion of non-cancelled entries in the old one falls to 10.5%. [The critical proportion is definitely more than 1/10 and definitely less than 1/9.] > The problem that obsolete entries not explicitly cancelled by client action > never go away definitely still exists, though. Indeed, it seems that in some ways it may be worse. One used to be able to sneakily cancel dross by writing judicious "#"s to /etc/rmtab oneself, and after the next reboot they would be gone. Now such trickery is lost each time a new /etc/rmtab is created from (presumably) the in-store active list. The na_rmtab(5) man page in 6.1R1 still says that /etc/rmtab "may be removed before rebooting the server" to get rid of such things, but I wonder whether it now has to be *just* before rebooting, in case the file should reappear! Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1(a)ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.

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RE: Qtree Utilization Alerts
by Fox, Adam 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

In 6.1, there is a threshold field in /etc/quotas that can be used. If a write goes over the threshold it logs a message to the filer. So for example you could do: /vol/vol0/mytree tree 50GB - 45GB Now after 45GB you will see messages in the /etc/messages file. It may not be exactly what you want, but it's a start. I'll admit I haven't played with this extensively yet, but it's there and may be worth investigating. -- Adam Fox NetApp Professional Services, NC adamfox(a)netapp.com -----Original Message----- From: Boyer, Steven [mailto:Steven.Boyer@GD-WTS-CENTCOM.COM] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:56 PM To: 'Thompson, Tim' Cc: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Subject: RE: Qtree Utilization Alerts Here is the script I wrote and use to email me, senior admins, helpdesk, and the user responsible for that section. It will also include first level subdirectories and their size in KB, MB, or GB makes it user friendly, some users have problems figuring out the numbers. I left the name of my filer, cosmos, only as an example. Feel free to use it, at your own risk of course, but will be happy to answer any questions. for the email portion at the bottom of the script I had to leave out the email names, but its simple to configure. hope this helps Steven -----Original Message----- From: Thompson, Tim [ mailto:tim.thompson@netapp.com <mailto:tim.thompson@netapp.com> ] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:07 PM To: Boyer, Steven Subject: RE: Qtree Utilization Alerts If you're willing to share the script, we could make it available on the NOW site. ...Tim... -----Original Message----- From: Steven Boyer [ mailto:Steven.Boyer@GD-WTS-CENTCOM.COM <mailto:Steven.Boyer@GD-WTS-CENTCOM.COM> ] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:05 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com; Dale Wolf Subject: Re: Qtree Utilization Alerts Dale I wrote a script, on a Unix client, that looks at each tree in the /etc/quotas file. If the tree is within 90% of the three it then sends an email the user who is responsible for the tree, our helpdesk, and senior admins. The file that I email also includes the sub directories of that tree so the user can get an idea of were he might be able to cleanup data. My scripts run once an hour mon-fri. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Dale Wolf" <wolfd(a)agcs.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:29:20 -0700 >I am looking for a tool to send alerts in the form of email or NT alerts >when a Qtree reaches some threshold or percentage (say 80%) of it's >quota. I want to be able to extract or construct the alert only for >certain Qtrees. Our Qtree naming standard makes it simple to identify >an NTFS Qtree. > >I've thought about automatically generating the Qtree report and writing >a tool to parse the information out of the report and generate any >alerts needed. > >Any tools or suggestions are welcome. > >Thanks. > > -- Steven N. Boyer UNIX/NT/NetApp Support HQUSCENTCOM General Dynamics --

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RE: Qtree Script
by Boyer, Steven 14 Jun '01

14 Jun '01

the script is written in c shell. use it at your own risk, but will be glad to answer any questions. -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Lefort [mailto:slefort@broadcom.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 5:08 PM To: Boyer, Steven Subject: Qtree Script Could I get a copy of the script too? Thx, Stu Lefort

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