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by Traitel, Eyal 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Hi ! Can the person who published the script in toasters contact me ? Can the author (Daniel Quinlan) contact me as well ? Thanks, Eyal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- eTraitel - I'm the new eBuzzword around !!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eyal Traitel - Filer Escalation Engineer CNA, MCSE, CSA, NACA Network Appliance BV Holland Office Center Kruisweg 799b 2132 NG, Hoofddorp The Netherlands Office: +31 23 567 9685 Cellular: +31 6 5497 2568 Email: eyal(a)netapp.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get answers NOW! - NetApp On the Web - http://now.netapp.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Relying on automatic load on DLT7000 drive
by Chris Thompson 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Maybe it's a mistake having put myself on the weekly newbugs mailing list: examining the list always leads to alarm and despondency... :-) This week it's 29835. That describes a problem with cleaning tapes and issuing the SCSI LOAD command against a DLT7000, and has | Solution or Fix: | The filer will refrain from issuing the LOAD command to the DLT7000 | at all, since the device autoloads the tape. Available in 5.3.7R2, | 6.0.2 and 6.1. That sounds as if NetApp is about to remove a feature (accident?) which I think I have been relying on. We have a (Tandberg) DLT7000 drive with no stacker attached to an F740. It certainly "autoloads" when a tape is inserted. However, after an unload, the same tape can be reloaded without manual intervention by accessing it from the F740 - I presume that's the result of the LOAD command at issue. I have used this for adding incremental dumps at times when there's no human available to change tapes (e.g. weekends). Apart from that, there's a positive advantage in the idle state of the drive being the unloaded one. If the tape is loaded, a power outage will leave the tape directory marked invalid, and the tape controller will need to scan the whole tape for filemarks before it can do anything with it, which can take well over an hour. (Not that this has happened to us on the F740: it's based on experience with DLTs in other contexts.) 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: Re: Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas
by lkaptan＠pro-link.net 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Is there anybody who tested to backup one filer to another one using veritas ? Original Message: ----------------- From: Rune Bakken rb(a)nextra.com Date: 11 Dec 2000 17:23:52 +0100 Subject: Re: Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas BrianH(a)dice.com writes: > I cannot comment on Veritas, I was unable to eval their product because they > do not support NDMP on anything but solaris. Uh? Then why is Veritas selling me NDMP for NetApp client? http://www.support.veritas.com/dsl/lists/nbu_os_ddProduct_NETBACKUPDC_prod1… Anyway I have a QualStar 4660 still in the box, waiting for me to find time to have it installed on my new mediaserver. I do plan to use fiber to connect my filer, mediaserver and library. My dealer has promised me that this will work ... >>>>>>>>.rune -- Rune Bakken "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. System Administrator When they wake up in the morning, that's as Nextra, good as they're going to feel all day." a Telenor Company - Frank Sinatra ------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been posted from Mail2Web http://www.mail2web.com/ Web Hosting for $9.95 per month! Visit: http://www.yourhosting.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Relying on automatic load on DLT7000 drive
by Hu, Chang-Ping 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

There are a few rationales behind the change. 1. To provide a fix to allow proper handling of a cleaning tape by DLT tape libraries (Burt #29835.) 2. In the case of a stand-alone drive, to provide a consistent drive behavior across various tape drive types. AIT and Exabyte drives will physically eject a tape when an unload command is issued. This change will make the DLT drives respond in a similar way, even though it does not physically eject the tape. 3. The change will require a user to manually reload the tape to enable the DLT drive to read it. This prevents accidentally overwriting a tape user may otherwise think has been unloaded. Again, this is no different from the AIT and Exabyte drives. Also, the change should only affect stand-alone DLT drives and not DLT stackers. Once the stacker robotics unloads and loads a new tape into the drive, a LOAD command will be issued to put the drive in ready mode. In your particular case, to add incremental dumps, an alternative is to use nrst0a instead urst0a. If you don't really care about the previous data on the tape, you can even use rst0a. C.P. Hu FSR QA, Network Appliance -----Original Message----- From: Chris Thompson [mailto:cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 7:21 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Relying on automatic load on DLT7000 drive Maybe it's a mistake having put myself on the weekly newbugs mailing list: examining the list always leads to alarm and despondency... :-) This week it's 29835. That describes a problem with cleaning tapes and issuing the SCSI LOAD command against a DLT7000, and has | Solution or Fix: | The filer will refrain from issuing the LOAD command to the DLT7000 | at all, since the device autoloads the tape. Available in 5.3.7R2, | 6.0.2 and 6.1. That sounds as if NetApp is about to remove a feature (accident?) which I think I have been relying on. We have a (Tandberg) DLT7000 drive with no stacker attached to an F740. It certainly "autoloads" when a tape is inserted. However, after an unload, the same tape can be reloaded without manual intervention by accessing it from the F740 - I presume that's the result of the LOAD command at issue. I have used this for adding incremental dumps at times when there's no human available to change tapes (e.g. weekends). Apart from that, there's a positive advantage in the idle state of the drive being the unloaded one. If the tape is loaded, a power outage will leave the tape directory marked invalid, and the tape controller will need to scan the whole tape for filemarks before it can do anything with it, which can take well over an hour. (Not that this has happened to us on the F740: it's based on experience with DLTs in other contexts.) 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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cifs testdc problem and 1D registration conflict
by Tom "Mad Dog" Yergeau 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

We'd been seeing a problem where a cifs testdc would yield the following results: filer> cifs testdc Using Established configuration Current Mode of NBT is H Mode Netbios scope "" Registered names... FILER < 0> WINS FILER < 3> WINS FILER <20> WINS DOMAIN < 0> WINS Testing Primary Domain Controller found 1 addresses trying 192.168.0.10...192.168.0.10 is alive found PDC DC-001 Testing all Domain Controllers found 3 addresses trying 192.168.0.10...192.168.0.10 is alive trying 192.168.0.10...192.168.0.10 is alive trying 192.168.0.13...192.168.0.13 is alive found DC DC-001 at 192.168.0.10 Not able to communicate with DC 192.168.0.10 found DC DC-002 at 192.168.0.13 NetApp was perplexed, had me re-run CIFS setup, etc. to no avail. Today we rebooted our PDC because we noticed that the master browser registration was in conflict: NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table Name Type Status --------------------------------------------- PDC <00> UNIQUE Registered PDC <20> UNIQUE Registered DOMAIN <00> GROUP Registered DOMAIN <1C> GROUP Registered DOMAIN <1E> GROUP Registered PDC <03> UNIQUE Registered DOMAIN <1D> UNIQUE Conflict ..__MSBROWSE__.<01> GROUP Registered DOMAIN <1B> UNIQUE Registered After the PDC rebooted, the cifs testdc problem went away. I know I've corresponded with some folks from toasters who were having this cifs testdc problem. If you're having the problem, can you do an nbtstat -a on your PDC, and see if you see a <1D> entry in conflict? Thanks, Mad Dog For your enjoyment: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q163/4/09.asp

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RE: Backup software recommendation?
by Benn, Paul 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Roger, The mainstream NT backup apps all work pretty well with filers. Backing up over CIFS is slower than using an NDMP enabled application, though. Take a look at our white paper on this subject. Admittedly it's based on some older hardware and software versions but it should still provide you enough information to get your NT based solution implemented. http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3052.html Regards, Paul Benn Network Appliance -----Original Message----- From: rbonine(a)millermartin.com [mailto:rbonine@millermartin.com] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 9:47 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Backup software recommendation? We are in the process of installing an F720 to be used in an all-NT server environment. Can anyone recommend a good backup platform? We're planning to use an ADIC FastStor library connected to one of our NT boxes. Data size will be roughly 150 Gb. Will Backup Exec support this configuration? Their latest version, 8.5, mentions "NAS support", but doesn't go into any details. Any suggestions will be appreciated... ---------------------------------------- Roger Bonine IT Manager, System Support Miller & Martin LLP ---------------------------------------- *************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *************************** The information contained in this e-mail message is legally privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. Any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail by an unauthorized recipient is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments. Please also advise us immediately if you or your employer does not consent to receipt of Internet e-mail for confidential messages of this kind. **************************************************************************** ***

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Backup software recommendation?
by rbonine＠millermartin.com 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

We are in the process of installing an F720 to be used in an all-NT server environment. Can anyone recommend a good backup platform? We're planning to use an ADIC FastStor library connected to one of our NT boxes. Data size will be roughly 150 Gb. Will Backup Exec support this configuration? Their latest version, 8.5, mentions "NAS support", but doesn't go into any details. Any suggestions will be appreciated... ---------------------------------------- Roger Bonine IT Manager, System Support Miller & Martin LLP ---------------------------------------- *************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *************************** The information contained in this e-mail message is legally privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. Any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail by an unauthorized recipient is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments. Please also advise us immediately if you or your employer does not consent to receipt of Internet e-mail for confidential messages of this kind. *******************************************************************************

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Veritas & Filers, or: to NDMP or not to NDMP ...
by Shaun T. Erickson 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

... that is the question. I am switching from BudTool to Veritas Netbackup. It seems, if I understand things correctly, that I can either back up my filers over NFS, or I can use NDMP and back them up to a locally attached tape drive, or to another filer with a locally attached tape drive. NDMP seems the way to go, for performance and speed reasons. However, I stopped using NDMP with BudTool, because everytime I had to upgrade either BudTool or OnTap, I ran into compatability problems between the differing NDMP implimentations. What has been the experience of those of you who are using Veritas and have tried the above solutions? Which method do you suggest I use, and why? -ste -- Office: (908) 582-7629 Cell: (908) 672-6456 Pager: (888) 290-2057

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Re: Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas
by Rune Bakken 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

BrianH(a)dice.com writes: > I cannot comment on Veritas, I was unable to eval their product because they > do not support NDMP on anything but solaris. Uh? Then why is Veritas selling me NDMP for NetApp client? http://www.support.veritas.com/dsl/lists/nbu_os_ddProduct_NETBACKUPDC_prod1… Anyway I have a QualStar 4660 still in the box, waiting for me to find time to have it installed on my new mediaserver. I do plan to use fiber to connect my filer, mediaserver and library. My dealer has promised me that this will work ... >>>>>>>>.rune -- Rune Bakken "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. System Administrator When they wake up in the morning, that's as Nextra, good as they're going to feel all day." a Telenor Company - Frank Sinatra

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RE: VERITAS platforms (was Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas)
by Steve Kappel 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Brian wrote: ... >I cannot comment on Veritas, I was unable to eval their product because they >do not support NDMP on anything but solaris. Just to clarify, this was with the NetBackup 3.1.1 release which is pretty old. VERITAS NetBackup NDMP is supported on the following platforms beginning with version 3.2 (spring 1999): Solaris (sparc) NT HP/UX AIX __________________________________________________________________________ Steve Kappel steve.kappel(a)veritas.com VERITAS Software steve.kappel(a)iname.com (Personal)

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RE: Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas
by Alvarado, Michael 11 Dec '00

11 Dec '00

Have you considered the GbE AIT 2 library from SpectraLogic? -----Original Message----- From: Moshe Linzer [mailto:Moshe.Linzer@nsc.com] Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 4:00 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas In our quest for a Budtool + tape library replacement, we are currently looking at Veritas NetBackup and a Qualstar AIT-2 tape library for our 2 NetApp F760's. Does anyone have experience with this combination? Qualstar makes a good argument for AIT technology. Is AIT-2 fully supported on the 760? From looking on NOW, I noticed a few things: 1. The F760 SCSI port is HVD, Qualstar library is LVD-SE, so I need a converter. Can the Filer port be changed to LVD-SE? 2. Tape drive matrix on NOW (http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/olio/cert_matrices/tape_drives.sht ml) says that versions below OnTap 6.0 require a PVR. What exactly is a PVR? Will I still get full performance from the drive? Is anyone using Veritas with a Qualstar library? Thanks, Moshe -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Moshe Linzer | On the Internet, Unix Systems Manager | National Semiconductor, Israel | nobody knows you're a moron. Phone: 972-9-970-2247 | Fax: 972-9-970-2001 | - Network Magazine Email: moshel(a)nsc.com | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -

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RE: Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas
by BrianH＠dice.com 10 Dec '00

10 Dec '00

I use a qualstar 4660 to backup my two 760's. It works great. It is fully supported by my 760's and 740's. I have never had any problems with it. You are right on the LVD comment. Except Qualstar can get you HVD drives if you request them. It was like a $400 option to get all the drives in HVD. The only problem I had then, was I had to get a HVD scsi card to control the robot arm, which was harder to find. I cannot comment on Veritas, I was unable to eval their product because they do not support NDMP on anything but solaris. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: Moshe Linzer To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Sent: 12/10/00 5:59 AM Subject: Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas In our quest for a Budtool + tape library replacement, we are currently looking at Veritas NetBackup and a Qualstar AIT-2 tape library for our 2 NetApp F760's. Does anyone have experience with this combination? Qualstar makes a good argument for AIT technology. Is AIT-2 fully supported on the 760? From looking on NOW, I noticed a few things: 1. The F760 SCSI port is HVD, Qualstar library is LVD-SE, so I need a converter. Can the Filer port be changed to LVD-SE? 2. Tape drive matrix on NOW (http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/olio/cert_matrices/tape_drives .shtml) says that versions below OnTap 6.0 require a PVR. What exactly is a PVR? Will I still get full performance from the drive? Is anyone using Veritas with a Qualstar library? Thanks, Moshe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Moshe Linzer | On the Internet, Unix Systems Manager | National Semiconductor, Israel | nobody knows you're a moron. Phone: 972-9-970-2247 | Fax: 972-9-970-2001 | - Network Magazine Email: moshel(a)nsc.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----

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Qualstar AIT-2 and Veritas
by Moshe Linzer 10 Dec '00

10 Dec '00

In our quest for a Budtool + tape library replacement, we are currently looking at Veritas NetBackup and a Qualstar AIT-2 tape library for our 2 NetApp F760's. Does anyone have experience with this combination? Qualstar makes a good argument for AIT technology. Is AIT-2 fully supported on the 760? From looking on NOW, I noticed a few things: 1. The F760 SCSI port is HVD, Qualstar library is LVD-SE, so I need a converter. Can the Filer port be changed to LVD-SE? 2. Tape drive matrix on NOW (http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/olio/cert_matrices/tape_drives.sht…) says that versions below OnTap 6.0 require a PVR. What exactly is a PVR? Will I still get full performance from the drive? Is anyone using Veritas with a Qualstar library? Thanks, Moshe -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moshe Linzer | On the Internet, Unix Systems Manager | National Semiconductor, Israel | nobody knows you're a moron. Phone: 972-9-970-2247 | Fax: 972-9-970-2001 | - Network Magazine Email: moshel(a)nsc.com | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Netapp 840: 2 CPUs?
by Nicolas Perreten 09 Dec '00

09 Dec '00

We've noticed that the 840 system board has room for 2 CPUs although it only uses one. (The second slot is occupied by a "dummy" CPU). I've heard rumors that Netapp will be releasing another version of ONTAP which would make it possible to drop another Intel CPU and therefore improving performance. Has anyone heard the same? Nicolas Perreten Sr. Systems Architect Inquent Technologies Inc.

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NetCache Configuration Brain damage.
by Jaye Mathisen 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

2 identical Netcache's, 1 configured the way I want it, the other a blank slate. Both running 5.0D6. There seems to be no way to just take the config of one, change the IP (all the rest of the info is the same), and just stuff it back in the other cache. Instead, there's some monumentally convoluted multi-cache configuration BS that has to be gone through. Crap. Am I the only person out there that just wants 2 caches to work alike? And while the 5.0 GUI is vastly better than the 4.x gui, I am loathe to spend an hour clicking my way through all those damn screens *WHEN I HAVE A PERFECTLY GOOD CONFIGURATION FILE READY TO BE UPLOADED DAMMIT*.

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Re:SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS
by Robert Souder 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

>> Anybody out there in Toasterland using SyncSort Backup Express? Would >> appreciate any first-hand insight -- I have a customer asking me to price it >> out for him, and I'd like to know how it stacks up vs. other products I know >> better (Veritas, Legato, CommVault, Workstation Solutions, etc.). TIA. Joe >> >>>I've been evaluating Backup Express for a little while now. >>>Along with Time Navigator (maybe Veritas soon). We eliminated >>>all the others for one reason or another. >>>There are alot of thing in BackEx I like (as compared to Tina) >>>but there are two big problems that we've found with it. The tape >>>duplication process tries to make an exact copy of the tape. For >>>Vault copies this can be a concern if you dest tape is a bit shorter >>>than the original. The data will just fall off the end of the tape. >>>Plus the software feels somewhat on the flaky side. I'm finding >>>a variety of things that should work but don't, plus having to restart >>>the GUI or the deamons to get things working again (like when it stopped >>>showing me the media report information). Talking with some people here >>>at the LISA show, they feel the same way. That BackEx is not as >>>stable as something like Veritas or Legato's products. >>>-- >>>Jeff Bryer bryer(a)sfu.ca >>>Systems Administrator (604) 291-4935 >>>Academic Computing, Simon Fraser University Jeff, We too have been evaluating and using Backup Express and have been very happy with it and the support received from Syncsort. They are one of the only ones that have a functional NDMP backup product that met our needs. The other companies like Veritas and Legato failed with either lack of support for robot capabilities or other technical reasons. As for restarting the GUI or daemons, we have not experienced this. Not to say we haven't experienced problems, but any problem we have encountered has been quickly answered by one of their support tech's. If they can't answer it they will get back to us usually within an hour. Bob Souder souder(a)super.org IDA - Center for Computing Sciences (CCS) (301) 805-7371

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Antivirus Scanning NTFS shares?
by Witham, John 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

Hi All: I've read NetApp just partnered with the big 3 AV vendors [http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/bw/?story=/news/stories/bw /20001129/a2086.htm&symbol=NTAP] BUT, having had to dig myself out of a loveletter reincarnation recently, I'm looking for some input on what other sysadmins do to keep their NetApps free of buggies. I just want something to tide us over until the vaporware AVOnTap becomes a reality. TIA! -john John Witham MCSE, MCP+i, A+ Systems Engineer Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. V://847.383.3304 F://847.383.3205 mailto://jwitham@takedapharm.com

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RE: SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS
by BrianH＠dice.com 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

I agree with that. I also looked at the same set of software, I gave up on Time Navigator pretty quickly. It took about 4 hours to get the initial demo working, and that was with their support engineer. Once I was able to get it working, I find out that they dont support my Qualstar Library, at least until the next version. I also could not use Veritas since it was NT and Solaris only. I wanted to run my master server on Linux. So far we have had pretty good luck with BackEx, the only problems so far is backups that fail and then the netapp locks that snapshot. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Bryer [mailto:bryer@sfu.ca] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:40 PM To: joe.luchtenberg(a)data-line.com Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS > Anybody out there in Toasterland using SyncSort Backup Express? Would > appreciate any first-hand insight -- I have a customer asking me to price it > out for him, and I'd like to know how it stacks up vs. other products I know > better (Veritas, Legato, CommVault, Workstation Solutions, etc.). TIA. Joe > I've been evaluating Backup Express for a little while now. Along with Time Navigator (maybe Veritas soon). We eliminated all the others for one reason or another. There are alot of thing in BackEx I like (as compared to Tina) but there are two big problems that we've found with it. The tape duplication process tries to make an exact copy of the tape. For Vault copies this can be a concern if you dest tape is a bit shorter than the original. The data will just fall off the end of the tape. Plus the software feels somewhat on the flaky side. I'm finding a variety of things that should work but don't, plus having to restart the GUI or the deamons to get things working again (like when it stopped showing me the media report information). Talking with some people here at the LISA show, they feel the same way. That BackEx is not as stable as something like Veritas or Legato's products. -- Jeff Bryer bryer(a)sfu.ca Systems Administrator (604) 291-4935 Academic Computing, Simon Fraser University

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RE: NTFS auditing?
by Watson, Dan 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

Hi Brian, We do not yet support viewing the adtlog.evt file directly on the Filer. You will need to move the file to an NT client and then view it with Event Viewer locally. I am not aware of a Unix utility that is able to read the .evt file format. Best, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 17:42 To: Benn, Paul Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: NTFS auditing? On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Benn, Paul wrote: > > It's pretty easy to setup and is documented in the System > Administrators guide (if yours are old, you can download a new one > in PDF from NOW). Ah, I see... you just point the NT Event Viewer utility to the file generated by the Netapp. Is there a UNIX utility to view the adtlog.evt file? -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob(a)risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

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RE: NTFS auditing?
by Benn, Paul 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

Brian, Yes, filers support NTFS-style auditing using the NT Event Viewer. Pre-6.0 versions of Data ONTAP allow "read" and "write" auditing for individual users. ONTAP 6.0 and later allows auditing of "read," "write," "execute," "change ownership" and take ownership." Other enhancements to the auditing in 6.0 include the ability to set a maximum log file size as well as the ability to use the group "Everyone" (versus having to enter individual account names). It's pretty easy to setup and is documented in the System Administrators guide (if yours are old, you can download a new one in PDF from NOW). Regards, Paul Benn Network Appliance -----Original Message----- From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 10:41 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: NTFS auditing? Has anyone heard of "NTFS write auditing"? A group within our company would like that enabled for files in a certain directory so they can track who is modifying files. Is this a feature of NTFS itself, or is this achievable over CIFS to a filer? I'm asking this in the context of a Netapp serving up the data, of course. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob(a)risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

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Speaking of NetApp User Groups...
by Jeffrey Krueger 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

As far as I'm aware, toasters is about the only user community effort going on for NetApps. Are there others? Namely other discussion groups, websites, or user groups. I've never heard of any and so have pretty much assumed that this is it. -- Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Krueger, NetApp CA E-Mail: jeff(a)qualcomm.com Senior Engineer Phone: 858-651-6709 NetApp Filers / UNIX Infrastructure Fax: 858-651-6627 QUALCOMM, Inc. IT Engineering Web: www.qualcomm.com

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solaris netboot from netapp filer
by Rob Windsor 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

This is an odd situation, perhaps someone else has run into it.. I've been running jumpstart off of the netapp, Solaris-2.6 and -8. For both versions, and for any network configuration, any time I netboot a system off of the netapp, I must send one ping packet to the system being jumpstarted to get it beyond "configuring devices..." (Sol-2.6) or "Configured interface hme0" (Sol-8, ultrasparc, same effect for sun4m, just s/hme/le/). This ping packet must be directed specifically at the host, not a broadcast ping ("ping a.b.c.255"). Anyone else seen this? Is there a workaround or hack that makes this go, other than what I'm doing already? Rob++ ---------------------------------------- Rob Windsor E-Mail - mailto:rob_windsor@adc.com Senior Unix Systems Administrator Voice - phone:972-680-6919 Computer Services Fax - phone:972-680-0370 Broadband Access and Transport Group __o ADC Telecommunications _`\<,_ Richardson, TX 75082 (_)/ (_)

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cache age
by bbadyk＠xo.com 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

Hello everyone, I have been trying to extract the cache age from a couple different filers and can't seem to locate an SNMP OID that will contain that info..The only other option i can think of is extracting it from an rsh sysstat..Has anyone retrieved that using snmp? Thanks!! -B.J. Badyk

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Re: solaris netboot from netapp filer
by Rob Windsor 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

My apologies in advance for posting this publically, since you sent it privately. I thought I would use this opportunity to clarify the situation a bit. On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:45:19 PST, Chris Wilkes wrote: > Do you haveto do the ping if you have another solaris box be the > jumpstart server? Nup, this problem doesn't exist if I use a solaris server as the boot server. (That's why I posted to the tosters list.) > I would do a tcpdump on the network to see if the client computer even > contacts the filer, and if the filer responds before the ping. Hmm. We're full of switches here. I'll bridge a couple of ports on the 5500 and sniff for that. This problem is independant of what switch is between the two (client and netapp). I've replicated the problem with an Asante' friendlynet 10/100 switch, a 3com "SuperStack III", and the Cisco 5500. It is also independant of Data OnTap version and filer hardware (seen it on F520, F740, F760). It doesn't matter if we are using sun4m or sun4u boxes, (ultra-1, ultra-2, ultra-10, ultra-60). Rob++ ---------------------------------------- Rob Windsor E-Mail - mailto:rob_windsor@adc.com Senior Unix Systems Administrator Voice - phone:972-680-6919 Computer Services Fax - phone:972-680-0370 Broadband Access and Transport Group __o ADC Telecommunications _`\<,_ Richardson, TX 75082 (_)/ (_)

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SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS
by Joe Luchtenberg 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

Anybody out there in Toasterland using SyncSort Backup Express? Would appreciate any first-hand insight -- I have a customer asking me to price it out for him, and I'd like to know how it stacks up vs. other products I know better (Veritas, Legato, CommVault, Workstation Solutions, etc.). TIA. Joe Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc. New number and email, please update: 757.858.0600 858.0606 fax joe.luchtenberg(a)data-line.com

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