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Re: Looking for Macintosh users
by mcope＠isisph.com 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

Save your money. My company has been supporting a dozen+ Mac users by running Atalk on a couple RedHat Linux boxes and letting them translate between NFS and AppleTalk. It's deceptively simple to setup Atalk and all the users have to do is select the Linux boxes thru their chooser. WARNING: Using this method we've found some Macs have an odd, ocassional tendancy to put funky date-time stamps on files. I've seen dates ranging from 1917 up to 2031. Needless to say, this causes some problems with our Solaris backup server. Hey, it's a free solution and simple shell script on the Linux box can find these files and change the date. (Although a better solution is to keep the Macs off your network completely! Macs are great but my experience is that they cause far more problems than they are worth.) "Maglinger, Paul" <PMAGLINGER(a)scvl.com>@mathworks.com on 09/05/2001 03:16:36 PM Sent by: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com To: "'NetApps list server'" <toasters(a)mathworks.com> cc: (bcc: Michael Cope/ISIS) Subject: Looking for Macintosh users We're looking to let our Art Department (Macintosh users) have a wee bit o' space on our 740. I'm looking at Dave software, but would appreciate any input from other administrators who might have some insight here. Thanks! Paul Maglinger, A+, CET, CA, MCSE Systems Administrator Shoe Carnival, Inc. - att1.htm

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RE: Looking for Macintosh users
by Benn, Paul 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

OS X version 10.1 (due out this month) will have CIFS support as well. http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/ Paul Benn Network Appliance > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Luchtenberg [mailto:joe.luchtenberg@data-line.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:14 PM > To: 'Maglinger, Paul'; 'NetApps list server' > Subject: RE: Looking for Macintosh users > > > If they're up to OS X, it supports NFS. If not (and they can't/won't > upgrade), then Dave is a proven work around. There are plenty of > referenceable (sales jargon) Dave/NetApp customers. Joe > > Joe Luchtenberg > Dataline, Inc. > 757.858.0600 > 757.285.1223 (cell) > 757.858.0606 (fax) > joe.luchtenberg(a)data-line.com > www.data-line.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Maglinger, Paul [SMTP:PMAGLINGER@scvl.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:17 PM > > To: 'NetApps list server' > > Subject: Looking for Macintosh users > > > > We're looking to let our Art Department (Macintosh users) > have a wee bit > > o' space on our 740. I'm looking at Dave software, but > would appreciate > > any input from other administrators who might have some > insight here. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Paul Maglinger, A+, CET, CA, MCSE > > Systems Administrator > > Shoe Carnival, Inc. >

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RE: Looking for Macintosh users
by Joe Luchtenberg 06 Sep '01

06 Sep '01

If they're up to OS X, it supports NFS. If not (and they can't/won't upgrade), then Dave is a proven work around. There are plenty of referenceable (sales jargon) Dave/NetApp customers. Joe Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc. 757.858.0600 757.285.1223 (cell) 757.858.0606 (fax) joe.luchtenberg(a)data-line.com www.data-line.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Maglinger, Paul [SMTP:PMAGLINGER@scvl.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:17 PM > To: 'NetApps list server' > Subject: Looking for Macintosh users > > We're looking to let our Art Department (Macintosh users) have a wee bit > o' space on our 740. I'm looking at Dave software, but would appreciate > any input from other administrators who might have some insight here. > > Thanks! > > Paul Maglinger, A+, CET, CA, MCSE > Systems Administrator > Shoe Carnival, Inc.

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Looking for Macintosh users
by Maglinger, Paul 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

We're looking to let our Art Department (Macintosh users) have a wee bit o' space on our 740. I'm looking at Dave software, but would appreciate any input from other administrators who might have some insight here. Thanks! Paul Maglinger, A+, CET, CA, MCSE Systems Administrator Shoe Carnival, Inc.

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Re: Unexplainable unresponsiveness of F820
by Kerry Schwab 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

When I have run into the bug, it didn't seem to have anything to do with how busy the filer was. It *did* seem to be related to pending output on the telnet connection. So, if you connected, ran a command, and then closed the telnet connection while the filer was still sending results, the filer would freeze. Another scenario is when "console log" messages randomly stream from the telnet conneciton. Closing the connection while the console logs message is being written triggers it also. It interesting that you mentioned "Big Brother", because I never hit the bug while actually typing interactively via telnet. It was always via some automated telnet connection ( Expect, Perl, etc). I guess a human typing always tends to wait before sending the <ctrl-D>, while the scripted connections aren't anticipating "extra output". == Kerry >>> <mcope(a)isisph.com> 09/05/01 04:46PM >>> Kerry, Thanks for the info. I use Big Brother (bb4.com) to monitor the Filers. One of the things it does every 5 minutes is open and close a telnet session to test telnet. It's a pretty ugly method because it just kills the telnet session as opposed to closing it. The problems on the previous Filer only manifested when it was getting hammered. I've been using Big Brother for a number of months now and haven't had any problems keeping telnet sessions open to a Filer. However, I can imagine where this could be a problem if the Filer is really busy and then one of these ugly telnet checks occurred and pushed it over the edge. Thanks again, Michael On 9/5/2001 2:16:07 PM, "Kerry Schwab" <Kerry.Schwab(a)wnco.com> wrote: > I've run into a bug with the telnetd daemon on the F820. > Closing a telnet session to the filer while it has pending > output sometimes causes the whole filer to "hang". > > This is occuring on 6.0.1R3. > > I did find some related bugs in the knowledge base, > but I've resorted to not using the telnet interface for now. > > == > Kerry > > > > > >>> <mcope(a)isisph.com> 09/05/01 10:46AM >>> > > > I've recently moved files from a F740 onto a new F820. This happened > on Monday > and on Tuesday morning the F820 suddenly stopped serving data. It > became so > unresponsive that I was unable to even get in thru the console. I > got prompted > for a password but it never got to a command line prompt. The Filer > didn't > appear to be excessively busy beforehand and the network connection > (Gigabit) > still appeared to be fine. Basically, the Filer appeared fine > externally and > the LCD panel showed that there were 0 ops a second. The only way I > could get > the Filer "running" again was to cycle power. > > The Filer has been fine since then. There were no messages in the > syslog and it > didn't dump a core file (I know now how to force it to dump a core for > diagnosis), so NetApp tech support hasn't been able to provide much > assistance > or explanation. > > I've seen this same behavior twice on the the F740 in the last 2 > months but that > had been diagnosed as a faulty Fibre Channel controller seizing up > when the > workload got too high. Other than the actual data files, the only > thing these > two Filers have in common is Data ONTAP 6.1R1. I'm running 6.1R1 on > two other > Filers and have had no problems. It just seems very coincidental > that I didn't > experience this on the F740 until after I installed this version of > ONTAP. > > Anyone else seen this behavior before or noticed any irregularities > with 6.1R1 > (I'm not running in a cluster so the latest updates/bug fixes don't > appear > helpful) > > Thanx, > > > Michael Cope > UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator > Isis Pharmaceuticals > mcope(a)isisph.com > > UNIX is very user friendly... > it's just highly selective about who it makes friends WITH! > > >

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Re: Unexplainable unresponsiveness of F820
by mcope＠isisph.com 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

Kerry, Thanks for the info. I use Big Brother (bb4.com) to monitor the Filers. One of the things it does every 5 minutes is open and close a telnet session to test telnet. It's a pretty ugly method because it just kills the telnet session as opposed to closing it. The problems on the previous Filer only manifested when it was getting hammered. I've been using Big Brother for a number of months now and haven't had any problems keeping telnet sessions open to a Filer. However, I can imagine where this could be a problem if the Filer is really busy and then one of these ugly telnet checks occurred and pushed it over the edge. Thanks again, Michael On 9/5/2001 2:16:07 PM, "Kerry Schwab" <Kerry.Schwab(a)wnco.com> wrote: > I've run into a bug with the telnetd daemon on the F820. > Closing a telnet session to the filer while it has pending > output sometimes causes the whole filer to "hang". > > This is occuring on 6.0.1R3. > > I did find some related bugs in the knowledge base, > but I've resorted to not using the telnet interface for now. > > == > Kerry > > > > > >>> <mcope(a)isisph.com> 09/05/01 10:46AM >>> > > > I've recently moved files from a F740 onto a new F820. This happened > on Monday > and on Tuesday morning the F820 suddenly stopped serving data. It > became so > unresponsive that I was unable to even get in thru the console. I > got prompted > for a password but it never got to a command line prompt. The Filer > didn't > appear to be excessively busy beforehand and the network connection > (Gigabit) > still appeared to be fine. Basically, the Filer appeared fine > externally and > the LCD panel showed that there were 0 ops a second. The only way I > could get > the Filer "running" again was to cycle power. > > The Filer has been fine since then. There were no messages in the > syslog and it > didn't dump a core file (I know now how to force it to dump a core for > diagnosis), so NetApp tech support hasn't been able to provide much > assistance > or explanation. > > I've seen this same behavior twice on the the F740 in the last 2 > months but that > had been diagnosed as a faulty Fibre Channel controller seizing up > when the > workload got too high. Other than the actual data files, the only > thing these > two Filers have in common is Data ONTAP 6.1R1. I'm running 6.1R1 on > two other > Filers and have had no problems. It just seems very coincidental > that I didn't > experience this on the F740 until after I installed this version of > ONTAP. > > Anyone else seen this behavior before or noticed any irregularities > with 6.1R1 > (I'm not running in a cluster so the latest updates/bug fixes don't > appear > helpful) > > Thanx, > > > Michael Cope > UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator > Isis Pharmaceuticals > mcope(a)isisph.com > > UNIX is very user friendly... > it's just highly selective about who it makes friends WITH! > > >

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Re: Unexplainable unresponsiveness of F820
by Kerry Schwab 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

I've run into a bug with the telnetd daemon on the F820. Closing a telnet session to the filer while it has pending output sometimes causes the whole filer to "hang". This is occuring on 6.0.1R3. I did find some related bugs in the knowledge base, but I've resorted to not using the telnet interface for now. == Kerry >>> <mcope(a)isisph.com> 09/05/01 10:46AM >>> I've recently moved files from a F740 onto a new F820. This happened on Monday and on Tuesday morning the F820 suddenly stopped serving data. It became so unresponsive that I was unable to even get in thru the console. I got prompted for a password but it never got to a command line prompt. The Filer didn't appear to be excessively busy beforehand and the network connection (Gigabit) still appeared to be fine. Basically, the Filer appeared fine externally and the LCD panel showed that there were 0 ops a second. The only way I could get the Filer "running" again was to cycle power. The Filer has been fine since then. There were no messages in the syslog and it didn't dump a core file (I know now how to force it to dump a core for diagnosis), so NetApp tech support hasn't been able to provide much assistance or explanation. I've seen this same behavior twice on the the F740 in the last 2 months but that had been diagnosed as a faulty Fibre Channel controller seizing up when the workload got too high. Other than the actual data files, the only thing these two Filers have in common is Data ONTAP 6.1R1. I'm running 6.1R1 on two other Filers and have had no problems. It just seems very coincidental that I didn't experience this on the F740 until after I installed this version of ONTAP. Anyone else seen this behavior before or noticed any irregularities with 6.1R1 (I'm not running in a cluster so the latest updates/bug fixes don't appear helpful) Thanx, Michael Cope UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator Isis Pharmaceuticals mcope(a)isisph.com UNIX is very user friendly... it's just highly selective about who it makes friends WITH!

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netapp bad disk bug
by Collin LeGault 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

Hey everyone, I have a couple of netapps that are doing this same weird thing. They both are reporting a bad disk, and when you replace the disk, the red light comes on for the new disk, and the netapp marks it as a broken disk. They are F760, running 5.3.5R3 of ontap. Someone thought we should take a down time and reboot them to see if that fixed it, but I wanted to avoid the huge amount of work that would be and see if anyone here has any suggestions. If you need more information about the filers to figure this out, let me know. Thanks in advance, coLLin LeGault

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RE: Filer hung up tight
by Jankowski Ted-CTJ012 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

It's in the same place on the 800 series as well. The curious thing it that with the front panels off, the button sticks out on the 700 series and is recessed in the 800 series. -Ted -----Original Message----- From: Sam Rafter [mailto:rafter@netapp.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:49 PM To: Maglinger, Paul Cc: 'NetApps list server' Subject: Re: Filer hung up tight You do have one alternative in this situation. There's a synch button on the front of your filer. On the 700 series, it's the little hole under the LEDs. When you press that, the filer should drop to the ok prompt. From there, you can type 'sync'. There's a NOW article on doing just very thing: http://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=3.0.620867.2715498&… In the 'nothing was working' checklist, was NFS/CIFS and FilerView checked as well? 850 ops is a lot to do nothing at all. If the number never fluctuated, I'd have my suspicions that it wasn't getting updated. We have watchdog systems in place to catch such things, so I'm a bit mystified. -Sam * It was Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:26:24PM -0500 when Maglinger, Paul wrote: > > We have a 740 filer running 6.0.1R3. Last night I got a page that > "nothing was working". I headed into work and found that: > > > > 1) I could not telnet into the filer. > > 2) I could not get in through console either. > > 3) The display on the front of the filer said 850 ops but the activity > led wasn't flashing at all. > > > > I figured I had no choice, so I shut it down hard and brought it back > up. Everything came up fine. The message file posted a time stamp at > 11:00pm but nothing at midnight (this was 1:30am). The message file > also said that the fiiler was down for 6057 secs. The crash folder > had one file in it called "bounds" and just contained "-1 -1". > Backups were being performed at the time using Veritas Backup Exec. > The backup log said everything was going fine until it found a > "corrupted file", then it started skipping files until the filer was > rebooted and it started in backing up again. We're trying to figure > out what went wrong but didn't have much to go on. Anyone have any > thoughts where to look now (or if this happens again)? > > > > "No matter where you go, there you are." > > > > Paul Maglinger > > System Administrator > > Shoe Carnival, Inc. --

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BCS VS ZCS Zone Disks
by Noll, Kevin 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

Hi All We have 9 x F760 Netapp Filers, 4 in Cluster Mode and the 9th one is what we have reserved for Snapmirror. We currently snapmirror volumes from these 8 filers to the backup filer. However, All existing filers have the old FC9 Disk Shelves with 36 gig disks in, and the new F760 Backup Filer has the new DC14 Disk Shelves with 72 gig drives. What should have been a disk for disk snapmirror configuration, either by having 36 gig to 36 gig or 36 gig x 2 to 72 gig disk, has become more complicated as the new disks have a different Zone. The new zone makes the new 72 gig disks slightly smaller than 2 x old 36 gig disks. I was wondering if anyone else might have encountered this problem yet, and if there is any workarounds as to disk zoneing, etc etc. Thanks KEVIN -----Original Message----- From: Jay Newton [mailto:jnewton@chkenergy.com] Sent: 04 September 2001 21:05 To: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Subject: Snapshots of QTREEs Is there a way to snapshot an individual QTREE from command line or must it be the entire volume. I have a volume set up for databases and I want to snapshot from command line individual QTREEs that represent different types of databases. Any help would be appreciated! Jay Newton Systems Engineer - Chesapeake Operating (405)810-2683 (405)879-9578 fax ******************************************************************************************** " This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message ". ********************************************************************************************

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