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moving files between filers
by Geoff Hardin 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

What is the preferred method of moving directories between filers? I was wondering what method the toaster community in general preferred. In the past I have used tar from my UNIX admin host, rsync, dump/restore, ndmpcopy, and cp. I have about given up on ndmpcopy because even across GbE, I see better thruput using tar or dump/restore. A couple of the admins I've spoken to swear by rsync, but I have only used it sparingly. I have a clustered pair of F760s, one filer for a production database and the second for a development database. Originally, both the production and development work was on the first filer, but space for production work began to run low. We are now moving development data off the production filer onto the development filer and we want to minimize the impact to the production filer while moving the data in a timely manner to the development system. The filers are on the same backup GbE LAN, so the network connection between the two is stable and fast. Any thoughts, opinions, or war stories greatly appreciated. Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin(a)dalsemi.com Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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Anybody using a F740 for clearcase vobs
by Kumar, Rahul 24 Jul '02

24 Jul '02

Hi all, Is anybody using a toater for clearcase 4.2. Why I am putting it here is because I need to the real life scenarios of it implementation. If anybody could help me that'll be really great. I have gone though the netapp site wherein they mention about the same. Rahul Rahul Kumar Infrastructure Analyst Rahul.Kumar(a)eds.com 91-20-2930812 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Miles [mailto:chris@psychofx.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:07 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: disable boot menu One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I have to hit 1 to continue the boot. How can I disable this? Cheers, CM -- Chris Miles chris(a)psychofx.com http://www.psychofx.com/chris/

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RE: disable boot menu
by Kiernan, Michael 23 Jul '02

23 Jul '02

Great minds think alike ;). This is an RFE internally 75510 for reading and writing OBP vars from the running OS. I've added your comments to the bug to add some momentum to it. Regards, Mike Kiernan -----Original Message----- From: Chris Thompson [mailto:cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:23 PM To: scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: disable boot menu scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu (Steve Losen) writes: > > > One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by > > CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I > > have to hit 1 to continue the boot. > > > > How can I disable this? > > Shut down to the OK prompt and type this > > printenv floppy-boot? > > If it is set to "true", then that is your problem. > Set it to false like this: > > setenv floppy-boot? false This reminds me to ask a question that's been at the back of my mind for a while: is there any way of interrogating the filer boot prom settings *without* shutting down first? I am thinking of something like the eeprom(1m) command in Solaris, which can be used while the system is running. Chris Thompson Email: cet1(a)cam.ac.uk

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ONTAP 6.2.1 vs 6.2R2D6 vs ???
by Chris Thompson 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

I am wondering which release of ONTAP I should be running on a leading-edge (but production) server here... We are currently running 6.2R2D2 --- the D2 part because we wanted the fix for 70674. We usually run the FCS release, but not a Dx one, so this makes me somewhat uneasy. Now 6.2.1 is out and FCS, and has 70674 in its fix list, so it would be natural to change to that. But meanwhile we've got the question of 75012 (the CA-2002-19 bug-in- -most-known-DNS-resolvers thing) outstanding. We think we're pretty well protected against it being exploited, but will be a lot happier with a fix. This *isn't* listed as fixed in 6.2.1. The Bugs Online entry for 75012 names a number of Dx releases in which it is fixed, including 6.2R2D6, but there's no mention of a 6.2.1D<anything>. So I need to decide between 6.2.1, 6.2R2D6, or waiting for something else. Maybe toasters isn't the best place to ask about this ... can NetApp people even post to the list again yet? Chris Thompson Email: cet1(a)cam.ac.uk

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Ownership of "/etc"
by David Lee 22 Jul '02

22 Jul '02

On both our new filers, running 6.1.2R1, I have just noticed that the ownership of its "/vol/vol0/etc" belongs, not to the expected "root", but to an apparently arbitrary uid "20041" (gid "30"). Fortunately: (a) we have not allocated that uid to anyone; (b) I think the only machine to which "/etc" would be user-accessible (a Solaris UNIX box fro our user admin.) can have access restrictions to prevent telnet/ssh-like user-access. Nevertheless, it does seem a little worrying (correction, potentially very worrying) that this critical "/etc" directory is owned by an ordinary user. (Just suppose this October's student intake allocates that uid to someone who likes exploring...) All the contents of "/etc" are root-owned, except for a subdirectory called "java" and within that some (not all) of its contents: drwxr-xr-x 3 20041 30 4096 Jun 11 08:11 . drwxr-xr-x 20 20041 30 65536 Jul 22 14:53 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 1912820 Jan 9 2002 .jitcache.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1912820 May 14 14:05 .jitcache.db.saved -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 8844945 Jan 8 2002 classes.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 8844945 Jan 8 2002 classes.zip-inuse -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 238737 Oct 13 2000 crysec.zip -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 139895 Jun 14 00:35 jit.log -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 505097 Oct 13 2000 jsafe.zip drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 14 14:05 lib -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1422554 Jan 8 2002 netapp.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1422554 Jan 8 2002 netapp.zip-inuse -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 217093 Oct 13 2000 phaos.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1942824 Jan 8 2002 redshift.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1942824 Jan 8 2002 redshift.zip-inuse -rw-r--r-- 1 20041 30 113216 Oct 13 2000 secureadmin.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 139753 Jan 8 2002 servlet.zip -rwxr-xr-x 2 root other 139753 Jan 8 2002 servlet.zip-inuse Is this general, affecting other sites, or does it suggest that something peculiar happened at our installation? I understand that, since site installation, we have had something added: from memory, I think it was "Secure FilerView", but I may be wrong, and the local person who oversaw this is currently away. Any comments, anyone? -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 374 2882 U.K. :

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quotas over limit: determination thereof
by David Lee 20 Jul '02

20 Jul '02

If what follows is in the manual or is a FAQ, then just point me in the direction... Executive summary: Is there an easy way (variant of "quota report" perhaps?) to discover which users are over-quota? Detail: We are beginning to migrate our home directories (15K-20K of them) from Solaris to NetApp. Quotas are a vital part of the control of these directories. Under Solaris (trad. UNIX), each user has an explicit quota. While this is possible under NetApp, it seems far more sensible to use default quotas where possible (and the documentation encourages this). We have set up some reasonable default quotas, and are using rsync (thanks, folk!) to get the user files prepared in the future NetApp location: transferred (from 20+ volumes across three Solaris fileservers) and kept in sync. Naturally a few of our users have more data than our NetApp default quotas. What we simply want to do is identify these exceptions so we can apply explicit quotas. We will, if possible, adjust the defaults so that the number of exceptions, from our 20K user-base, is reasonably small. Under Solaris etc., the output from its "repquota" command was easily eyeball-able (I know, no such word!) for such exceptions: "+" and expiry times. Is there a variant of NetApp's "quota report" that either restricts output to over-quota users, or has a field indicating over-quota, or similar? Or is the NetApp convention simply to cobble together a bit of awk/perl to extract those lines (from the total 20K) in which "Used" exceeds "Limit"? Thanks in advance. -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : University of Durham : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham : : Phone: +44 191 374 2882 U.K. :

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RE: arp spoof, 840 with 6.2.1
by Toal, Dave 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

Brian, Snapmirror and vol copy turned out not to be an option, because the 760 is at 5.3.1; we're getting the 'volume is in transitional state, aborting' error even though the destination is offline. NDMP copy looks like the remaining method, the 760 is being upgraded to 6.2.1 and I want to duplicate the data before starting that. Piotr, Yes, disks and data too. %-{)# What I saw from the first attempt was no response to ping, on either side, even after doing ifconfig down/up of the e9b nic. Maybe the magic arp has leaked out the switch I was using? After connecting the original filer I had to do arp -d and ping again, before it would respond to the unix host mount request. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Long To: Toal, Dave Cc: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Sent: 7/19/02 10:37 AM Subject: Re: arp spoof, 840 with 6.2.1 Dave, Are you replicating the data to the F840 or just moving shelves? If you're replicating data with something like Snapmirror, you might consider the Ontap 6.X snapmirror migrate command. This alters the disk labels on the destination so you don't end up with stale NFS filehandles on all the clients (if you're using NFS). For CIFS, you don't need to worry about this. /Brian/ > Good morning. I've got a question about substituting > one netapp for another, by setting the ip addresses the same > and changing the ethernet cable going to the switch from one > to the other. > > The netapp I'm trying to bring online is the 840. The > ether (mac) addresses are showing different from inconfig, and > I'm wondering if there's a way to set that explicitly; I don't > see it from the options listed. > > > > the 840: > > netapp-demo*> ifconfig e9b > e9b: flags=48043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 206.33.27.85 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 206.33.27.127 > ether 00:20:fc:1e:3a:75 (100tx-fd-down) > netapp-demo*> > > > > > > the other netapp, a 760 running 5.3.6R1: > > wesson> ifconfig e0 > e0: flags=200043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING> mtu 1500 > inet 206.33.27.85 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 206.33.27.127 > partner inet 206.33.27.86 (not in use) > ether 00:a0:98:00:78:c5 (100tx-fd-up) > wesson> > > > > > > -- > Dave Toal > Thomson & Thomson > North Quincy, MA > > > -- Brian Long | | | Americas IT Hosting Sys Admin | .|||. .|||. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Pager: (888) 651-2015 | C i s c o S y s t e m s

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arp spoof, 840 with 6.2.1
by Toal, Dave 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

All, Good morning. I've got a question about substituting one netapp for another, by setting the ip addresses the same and changing the ethernet cable going to the switch from one to the other. The netapp I'm trying to bring online is the 840. The ether (mac) addresses are showing different from inconfig, and I'm wondering if there's a way to set that explicitly; I don't see it from the options listed. the 840: netapp-demo*> ifconfig e9b e9b: flags=48043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 206.33.27.85 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 206.33.27.127 ether 00:20:fc:1e:3a:75 (100tx-fd-down) netapp-demo*> the other netapp, a 760 running 5.3.6R1: wesson> ifconfig e0 e0: flags=200043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING> mtu 1500 inet 206.33.27.85 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast 206.33.27.127 partner inet 206.33.27.86 (not in use) ether 00:a0:98:00:78:c5 (100tx-fd-up) wesson> -- Dave Toal Thomson & Thomson North Quincy, MA

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RE: NT Domain Authentication and Filer Access
by Chuck Tomasi 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

It sounds like there is an inconsistency between the UNIX login name and the Windows domain\login name for that user. If they are the same, then odds are that the user and the filer aren't in the same domain. The joys of multi-protocol environments. Some of us learned this the hard way... There are two ways to approach this. The first is to do your best to keep the UNIX login name (e.g. ctomasi) the same as the domain login (TGI\CTomasi). Note, case doesn't matter - most of the time. If, however, the filer is in another domain (assuming full NT trusts are setup between the domains) you'll need to start tweaking the /etc/usermap.cfg file on the filer. This is a handy file. Often times it is used to map "Domain\Administrator" to "root" so you get all your admin priviledges from either world. It can also be used for other things (see the docs and/or the comments in the file.) In our case, we have lots of domains which we will hopefully be consolidating in to fewer with Win2K Active Directory, but that's beside the point. We use an entry *\* == * in the usermap.cfg file to help the filer look in other domains to authenticate the user. In my case, the filer is part of the Win2K domain "NA", but I'm "TGI\CTomasi" and my UNIX account is "ctomasi". That entry starts a search for various PDCs (see CIFS PREFDC for some other helpful info.) Note, this could take a while to authenticate a user if you have to search a bunch of domains. The user may perceive this delay when they open a connection to a CIFS share for the first time on that filer. The filer is just trying to match the Windows name (credentials) with a corresponding UNIX account. You may need to help it along if you're dealing with multiple domains or if the login name doesn't correspond between Windows and UNIX. I hope that helps. --Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Jessica Fernandez To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Sent: 7/18/2002 12:21 PM Subject: NT Domain Authentication and Filer Access I am new to administering a filer via NT. Our filers have always been administered from a UNIX host. We are migrating users from a UNIX environment to an Windows NT/2000 environment. I have a user that has a domain account and needs access to the filer. Without having to create an account on the UNIX, where do I indicate validation via NT domain? I have a people share on my filer with a folder with his employee number as the folder name. After logging into the domain, he can see the filer listed in the domain. When he double clicks it, it prompts him for a username and password. He has tried what he uses to authenticate on the domain and it does not work. For our UNIX users they have accounts on our UNIX server and are authenticated that way. Your help is appreciated. Thanks. JESSICA A. S. FERNANDEZ ESA-FM-ESH E-mail: jessicaf(a)lanl.gov TA-16-661-101, MS-C933 Voice: 505-665-8051 FAX: 505-665-9490 Pager: 104-6707

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NT Domain Authentication and Filer Access
by Jessica Fernandez 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

I am new to administering a filer via NT. Our filers have always been administered from a UNIX host. We are migrating users from a UNIX environment to an Windows NT/2000 environment. I have a user that has a domain account and needs access to the filer. Without having to create an account on the UNIX, where do I indicate validation via NT domain? I have a people share on my filer with a folder with his employee number as the folder name. After logging into the domain, he can see the filer listed in the domain. When he double clicks it, it prompts him for a username and password. He has tried what he uses to authenticate on the domain and it does not work. For our UNIX users they have accounts on our UNIX server and are authenticated that way. Your help is appreciated. Thanks. JESSICA A. S. FERNANDEZ ESA-FM-ESH E-mail: jessicaf(a)lanl.gov TA-16-661-101, MS-C933 Voice: 505-665-8051 FAX: 505-665-9490 Pager: 104-6707

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