Just to add, I find snmp combined with mrtg provides sufficient view into the filer's operations. Telnet/rsh for any automated things. I find if you consider it a unix machines, all the same rules apply. It has a syslog which should be monitored, it can send snmp traps, etc. I have never found anything to be unclear from the command line and nothing that couldn't be monitored with mrtg or an external script plugged into mrtg.
Jerry
--- Stefan Funke bundy@arcor-ip.de wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Jason Storm wrote:
What tools to do you use to administer and manage
your filer(s)? I
am not the greatest fan of Filerview and was
wondering how good is
DataFabric Manager. Any other tools out there?
To give you my 2 cents...
I don't know what you think about when you say "administer and manage", I have some RRDs and DFM to see the volume utilization. The real management is done via rsh/telnet/snmp (in that order) at my side - rsh with some shell features (e.g. loops...) is really nice if you want to perform some operation over a farm of filers. There seem to be a lot of people on the list and at netapp side praising the shit out of DFM but for me dfm is just like filerview in different colors. ;-) I think the tools typical netapp admins use depend on the work they have to do - for example: I never needed to work with quotas or CIFS, maybe DFM/filerview is great with that.
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