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    Edition Jul y 2007 CentricStor V3.1D User Guide ...

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    Comments … Suggestions … Correctio ns … The Us er Docu mentation Department wo uld lik e t o know y our opini on on th is ma nual. Y our feedb ack helps us to opt imize our docu mentatio n to su it yo ur ind ividual n eeds . F eel free to send us y our co mments b y e-mail to : manu als@fuj i tsu-si emens .com Certifi ed docume ntatio n accor ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 9 1.1 Objective and target group f or the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1.2 Concept of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1.3 Notational con vent ions . . . . ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 2.6 Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 8 2.6.1 Creati ng the Centr icStor data m aintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 2.6.2 Issuing a mount job from the hos t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 2.6.3 Scratch mo unt . . ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 4.1.3 System a dministrator acti vities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 4.1.3.1 Adding a logical volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.1.3.2 Adding a ph ysical v olume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 4.1.3.3 Adding logical vol ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 5.2.3 GXCC in ot her systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.2.4 Screen d isplay require ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.2.5 Managi ng Centri cStor via SN MP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 5.2.5.1 Connecti on to SNM ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 6.1.6 Block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 6.1.6.1 Status infor mation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 6.1.6.2 Object i nf o r mation and obj ect-related functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 6.1.7 ICP obj ect inf or ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 6.2.7 Configura tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 6.2.7.1 RAID Filesy stems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 6.2.7.2 Logical V olume G roups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 6.2.7.3 Physical V olume Gro ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 7.3.1.2 Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 7.3.2 Config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 7.3.3 T ools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 7.3.3.1 Global eX tende ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 7.7.1.5 Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 7.7.1.6 Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 7.7.1.7 Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 7.7.1.8 Help . . . . . . . . . ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 8.3.4.4 Scan Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 40 8.3.4.5 Interaction Ti meout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 8.3.5 T ools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 8.3.5.1 XTCC Communicat ions ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 8.5.8.3 Abor t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 8.5.8.4 Enlarge Font / Reduc e F ont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 8.5.8.5 T ab Stop In ter v al . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 6 8.5.9 Help . . . . . . ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 8.10 Vir tual 3490 driv es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 1 8.10.1 Objec t informatio n and error messages f o r vir tua l 3490 dr ives . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 8.10.1.1 Error con ditions indicated on the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 8.10.1.2 Object i nf ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 8.17 RAID sy stems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 11 8.17.1 Object i nf or mation on RAI D systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 8.17.2 Functio ns of RAID syste ms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 8.17.2.1 Show Complete R ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 8.23.3 Global fu nctions for tape dr iv es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432 8.23.3.1 Remove Symbols of all Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 8.24 MSGMGR (Message M anager) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 8.24.1 Objec t inf or mation on ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 9.2.12 SXMM.. . (Message Man ager) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 9.2.13 SXPL. .. (PLM: Physical Librar y Mana ger) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 9.2.14 SXPS... (PLS: P h y sical Librar y Ser ver) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 9.2.15 SXRD ... (Fibr ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 Contents 12.1.2.2 Activating the con figuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 12.1.2.3 Changes in central files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 12.1.3 Monitor ing Cent ricStor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 49 12.1.3.1 GXCC as a mon ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Contents 12.4 Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 12.4.1 Xpdf, gzip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 12.4.1.1 Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572 12.4.1.2 GNU GENER AL PUBLI ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 19 1I n t r o d u c t i o n With Cen tricStor, a vir tual tape robot system i s placed in f ront of the rea l tape robot s ystem (with t he real dr ives and car tr idges) . In this way the host and the real archive are fully decoup led. The vir tua l tape ro bot system k nows what are referred to as vir tual (logical) dr ives and ...

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    20 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Objective and tar g et group f or the manual Introdu ction The ho st is c onnected u sing the following c onnection tec hnolo gies: ● ESCON channels ● FibreCha nnel ● FICON Communic ation between the individual c ontrol units takes place via th e LAN in Centr icStor , the transpor t of th e user data to and from th e RA ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 21 Introduc tion Notational conventions Global Status The Glo bal Statu s Monitor p rovides a graphical display of all imp or tant op erating data i n a win do w . XTCC The program X TCC is used ma inly to monit or the ind ividual Cent ricStor c omputers ( ISPs) inclu ding the pe ripheral devices conn ected to th e compute rs. Ex ...

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    Eine Dokuschab lone v on F r ank Flacheneck er b y f .f . 1992 ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 23 2 CentricStor - Vir tual T ape Library 2.1 The CentricStor principle Con ventional host r obot system Figure 1: Conv entional host robot system In a c on ventional r eal host r obot system , the hos t system req uests cer tain data car tr idges to be mo unted in a d efined real tape dr iv e. As soon as the storag e periph eral ...

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    24 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 The CentricStor princi ple CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary Host robot system with Ce ntricStor Figure 2: Host robot system with Cen tricStor With Ce ntricS tor , a vir tua l archive system is inst alled upstr eam of the r eal archi ve system with th e physical dr ives and data car tri dges. This enables the hos t to be c ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 25 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y The CentricStor principle As so on as a mo unt job is issued, th e Librar y Man ager che c ks whethe r the req uested volume is already i n the dis k cach e. If so , the volume is immedi ately r eleased f o r proces sing by the appli cation. If not, Centr icStor re quests th e correspon ...

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    26 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Hardw are architecture CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary 2.2 Har dware ar chitectur e Figure 3: Example of a CentricStor configuration In this e xample, Centr icStor compr ises the following hardware c omponents: ● a VLP ( Vir tual L ibrary Process or), which mo nitors and c ontrols th e Centr icStor hardware a nd softwa ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 27 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Hard war e arch itec tur e 2.2.1 I SP (Integra ted Ser vice Processor ) Centr icStor i s a group of se ver al p rocessors, each r unni ng special software (UNI X der ivativ e) as the operating system. These pr ocessors are r ef erred to co llectively as the ISP (Integrated Ser vice Proce ...

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    28 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Hardw are architecture CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary 2.2.1. 2 ICP (Integr ated Channel Processor) The ICP is the inte rf ace to the host syst ems conn ected in the overall system . Figure 5: Ex ternal and int ernal ICP c onnections Depen ding on the ty pe of host s ystem use d, it is poss ible to equip an ICP with a ma ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 29 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Hard war e arch itec tur e 2.2.1.3 I DP (Integr ated Device Processor) The IDP is the inte rf ace to the connected t ape dr ives. Figure 6: Internal and external IDP connections The IDP is respons ible f o r communica tion with rea l tape dr ives. T o optimize perform ance, only two rea ...

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    30 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Hardw are architecture CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary 2.2.2 RAID sys tems fo r the T ape V olume Cach e A TVC ( T ape V olum e Cache) is t he hear t o f the entire v ir tual arch ive system. It represe nts all o f the T ape File S ystems i n which th e logic al volumes can be stor ed tempo rarily . One or more RA ID sys ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 31 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Hard war e arch itec tur e The me tadata of the l ogical volumes to be written or read is stored on the 1st RA ID system, as a r esult of w hich the usa b le cap acity of thi s RAID system i s reduced b y 16 G B. A Centr icStor can contai n up to 8 RA ID . The numb er of cache file syste ...

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    32 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Software architectur e CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary This SA N-based des ign means that e ach Centr icStor com ponent is in a position to ac cess the TV C . 2.2.5 Host connection The ho st conne ction on t he ICP is implemen ted using the f ollowin g connectio n technol ogies: FibreCh annel with ESCON or FICO N connect ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 33 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y S oftw are a rchi tec tur e Figure 8: Cent ral role of the VLP in a CentricStor configuration 1 VLP (Vir tual L ibrary Processor) The V LP is res ponsible for the coordi nation o f the enti re Centr icStor system. Although t he software c an be activated on a ny of the ICP or I DP system ...

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    34 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Software architectur e CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary VLM (Virtual Library Manager) Each rob ot job fr om the reques ting host s ystem is reg istered in the VLM. T o s uppor t the librar ies, correspon ding emulation s (VLMF , V AM U , V A CS, VDAS , VJUK) are used in Centr icStor. The TV C is admi nistered exclusively ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 35 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Operation 2.4 Operation Centr icStor i s operated vi a the graphical user inter f a ces GXCC (G lobal Exte nded Contr ol Cente r) and XTCC (E xtended T ap e Control Center). Thes e are used t o perform al l admini stration an d configu ration tas ks. Using t his cont rol center, it is po ...

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    36 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Administering the tape cartridges CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary 2.5.2 Repeated writing of a logical v olume onto tape If a logic al volume which has alrea dy been sav ed onto tape is writte n to tape a second tim e follo wing an update, the fi rst backup will be d eclared invalid. The cur rent volume is appende d after ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 37 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Administering the tape cartridges 2.5.4 R eorganization of the tape car tridges When a logical volume is rel eased by the host’ s v olume managem ent f acili ty (e.g. MAREN in BS20 00/OSD), it is flagged accor dingly in the Cen tricS tor data main tenance facility whic h contai ns the ...

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    38 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Pr ocedures CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Librar y 2.6 Pr ocedures 2.6.1 Cr eating the Centri cStor data maintenance Init ial sit uat ion : Centr icStor i s installed an d configu red. As yet, there i s no data on the RAID syste m. The tape car tr idges of the robots are blank. T o star t Centr icStor , the P LM and VLM data ma ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 39 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Procedu res 2.6.2 Issuing a mount job fr o m the host Init ial sit uat ion : The lo gical volume L V0005 is already l ocated on the physical volume PV0002. Figure 14: Procedure for a mount job A mount job is ex ecut ed as follows: 1. The host is sues a mount j ob f or logi cal volume L V ...

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    40 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Pr ocedures CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Librar y Dependin g on whether the logica l volume is sti ll in the RAID system or is only on a physical volume, the follo wing two situatio ns ari se: Case 1: The volume is migrated to ta pe and is no longer located in th e RAID syst em. a) The VLM issues a request to the PL M to read ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 41 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Procedu res Case 2: The l ogical volume has be en modifi ed. a) The VLM i nf or ms the PL M that the logi cal volume is to be copied o nto tape. b) The PL M select s a suitable tape car tr idge: a comple tely new tape, a scratch tap e, or a tape on to which wr iting h as not yet resulted ...

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    42 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Pr ocedures CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Librar y 2.6.3 Scratch mount T o prev ent read ing in from the physical medium in cases wh ere a log ical volume is to b e rewritten anyw ay , under c er tain ci rcumstanc es Centr icStor perfor ms a “scratch mo unt”. The s pecial features of the scratch m ount in Cen tricS tor are ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 43 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y New system functions 2.7 Ne w system functions Centr icStor V ersio n 3.1C for the first t ime provides the option of c reating log ical volumes (L Vs ) more than 2 GB i n size as a standard f ea ture. The L V size ca n be select ed in discre te steps f or eac h logical volume group (L V ...

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    44 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Standar d system functions CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary 2.8 Standar d system functions The following functi ons are sta ndard in ev er y Centr icStor system: ● P ar tit ioning by volume groups ● “Call H ome” in t he e vent of an error ● SNMP s uppor t ● Expor ting and impor ting tape car trid ges 2.8.1 P a ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 45 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Standard system functions 2.8.3 SNMP support It is po ssible to integrate C entricS tor into re mote moni toring by an SNMP Managem ent Stat ion such as “CA Uni center” or “ Tivoli”. In the e ven t of sys tem errors (error w eighti ng EMERGE NCY , ALER T , ERR OR, CRITICAL), Cent ...

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    46 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Standar d system functions CentricSt or - Virtual Tape Libr ary 2.8.4. 1 V au lt attribute and vault st atus The vault attr ibute is ass igned to a physical volume group (PV G) by means of th e GXCC functio n Co nfig ur ation ➟ Ph ysical V olum e Gr oups in the Ty p e entr y field (see page 1 87 ). The associa ted tape car ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 47 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Optional system functions 2.9 Optional sy stem functions Centr icStor i s av ailable in a variety of confi guration levels , in ea ch of which fur ther custom er-specifi c e xtensions (e.g. larger di sk cache) are possible. In addit ion to the b asic confi guration, opti onal func tions ...

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    48 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Optional system fun ctions CentricStor - Vi rtual Tape Library 2.9.1 Compr ession The fi gure below illu strates the pr incip le of software compress ion of log ical volumes: Figure 15: Principle of compressing logical volumes Just as a p h y sical dr ive can perform data comp ression, s o also can the tape dr ive emula- tio ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 49 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Optional system functions In BS20 00/OSD (“H OST” attri b ute), c ompressi on is controll ed on the ba sis of th e tape type: – T APE-C3: compression off – T APE-C4: compression on In UNIX, th e compres sion set ting can be s elected by the device node s. The c ompression s ettin ...

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    50 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Optional system fun ctions CentricStor - Vi rtual Tape Library All supp or ted robo t archive types ar e per mitted: – ADIC AML syst ems (wit h D AS) – ADIC scalar system s (with D A S or SCSI) – Sto rage T ek syst ems ( with A CSLS or SCSI ) –I B M C a s h i o n – Fujit su robot (with LMF) Pleas e ref er to the cur ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 51 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Optional system functions Figure 17: Example of Dual Sa ve functionality In acc ordance with the a ssignment rules f or the v olume group functio nality (see page 64 ), the logi cal volumes f rom LV G 1 ( L V0001- L V3000) are mirrored on the physical volumes of PV G 1 (PV0001- PV0300) a ...

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    52 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Optional system fun ctions CentricStor - Vi rtual Tape Library 2.9.4 Ext ending virtual drives This option a llows you to incre ase the numb er of lo gical dr ives from the standard 32 per ICP to up to 6 4 per ICP . This m akes it possible to ope rate up to 256 logical dr ives in a sing le Centr icStor sy stem. 2.9.5 S ystem ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 53 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Optional system functions If the “automati c VLP f ailov er” functi on has been activated, the following actions are no longer per mitted in the system: – chang ing the LA N configuratio n – reboo ting or shu tting down of the VLP ( init 0 or init 6 : th ese com mands cause a fai ...

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    54 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Optional system fun ctions CentricStor - Vi rtual Tape Library 3. A fter the de f e ctive processor has been re paired, it i s integrated onc e again into the ov erall syst em and takes over the role of t he SVLP: Figure 20: Act iv ation of the def ec tiv e processor for the SV LP The statu s, i.e. A u toVLP f ailover active ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 55 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Optional system functions 2.9.8 Cache Mirroring Feature 2.9. 8.1 Gen era l Centr icStor V3 .1 provides u sers with enha nced data se curity and greater prote ction agains t data loss through disas ters, promptly f or all nea rline data . Data stored on the inter na l hard disk s ystem is ...

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    56 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Optional system fun ctions CentricStor - Vi rtual Tape Library 2.9.8. 3 Software r equirements The “ vtlsmirr” key must have been rea d in and e nabled f or the m irror funct ion. This is done by custome r suppor t . Assu ming that th e hardware req uiremen ts are sati sfied (see the secti on above) and the RAID sy stems ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 57 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Optional system functions 2.9.8.4 M irrored RAID systems A mir rored Centr icStor s ystem has 1 to a maxi mum of 4 RAID mirror pa irs. Figure 23: Example of a CentricS tor mirror system with 3 RAID mirror pairs In a RAID mirror p air , one RAID s ystem con tains only prim ary caches, the ...

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    58 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Optional system fun ctions CentricStor - Vi rtual Tape Library 2.9.8.5 Presentation of th e mirror function in GXCC In GXC C the mirror functions of a double RAID system ar e indica ted by two arrows . Example Figure 25: Presentation of the mirror function in GXCC Genuine RAID pairs a re indicat ed with a wh ite dot, pote nti ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 59 Cent ricS tor - Virt ual Tape Li brar y Optional system functions 2.9.9 Accounting On the one hand th is function per mits the ac counting data of lo gical volume groups t o be displa yed in GXCC (see t he section “St atistics » Usage (Acc ounting) ” on page 29 3 ). Example On the oth er hand this func tion enables the cu ...

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    Eine Dokuschab lone v on F rank Flachenec k er b y f .f . 1992 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 61

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 61 3 Switc hing CentricStor o n/off IMPORT ANT! The vendor recom mends tha t Centric Stor shoul d not be switched off. This sh ould only be done in exceptio nal circu mstances. 3.1 Switching Cent ricStor on Before s witchin g Centric Stor on, you must ensure that t he units w ith which Centr icStor is to communicate, i.e. hos t c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 62

    62 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Switchin g CentricStor off Switching Ce ntricStor on /off Using G XCC or X TCC check t hat all the necessar y Ce ntri cStor proce sses are r unni ng (all proc esso r bo xes must be g reen ). 5. BS2000/OS D: Case 1: Host connectio n via ROB AR Ê Sta rt ROBAR-S V (with the menu program robar or robar_ start ; see ROBAR manual ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 63

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 63 4 Selected system administrator activities 4.1 Par titioning on the basis of volume groups 4.1. 1 General By par titioni ng on the b asis of volume gro ups, it is po ssible to co mbine cer tain lo gical volumes to for m a logi cal volume grou p ( LV G ) and ce r tain physical volumes to f or m a physical volume group ( PV G ). ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 64

    64 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 P artitioning on the basis of vo lume grou ps Selec ted system adminis trator activi ties Figure 27: Example of par titioning on the basis of v olume groups 4.1.2 Rul es Logical volume groups: – It is po ssible to con figure u p to 512 lo gical volume group s. By default, C entricS tor always has at lea st two logica l volu ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 65

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 65 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Pa rtitioning on the basis of volume groups Physical v olume groups: – It is po ssible to con figure u p to 100 physical volume grou ps 1 . By default, Centr icStor always has at least two physical volume groups (“BA SE” and “TR- L V G”). The se exist in ad dition t o the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 66

    66 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 P artitioning on the basis of vo lume grou ps Selec ted system adminis trator activi ties 4.1.3.1 A dding a logical volume group ● The f orm and det ail ed inf ormatio n are prov ide d in th e section “Logical V olume Groups” on page 1 73 1. Click on the “NEW” button. 2. The f o llowing must be entere d: Name Name o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 67

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 67 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Pa rtitioning on the basis of volume groups 4.1.3.4 A dding ph ysical volumes to a physical v olume group Only ph ysical v o lu mes con taine d in the ph ysical libr ary ma y be specifi ed. ● The form and detailed inf or mation ar e provided in the section “ Ph ysic al V olume ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 68

    68 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 P artitioning on the basis of vo lume grou ps Selec ted system adminis trator activi ties 4.1.3.7 Changing logical v olumes to another gr oup ● The form an d detaile d information are provided in the sec tion “L ogical V olum e Opera- tions » Change V o lume Grou p” on page 20 9 . The f ollo wi ng inf ormatio n mus t b ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 69

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 69 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Pa rtitioning on the basis of volume groups 4.1.3.10 R emoving physical v olumes from a physical volume group Only sc ratch tapes which do no t contain any valid logical volumes can be remov ed, unless the physical volumes h a ve been reor ganized pr ior to do ing this (flag is s e ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 70

    70 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Cache management Selec ted system adminis trator activi ties 4.2 Cach e management This functionali ty enables ind ividual cache file s ystems t o be reser ved f or exclusive use by particular L V g roup s. L V groups which a re not assi gned to a cac he file sy stem are di stributed to th e remainin g cache s (“FLOA TING? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 71

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 71 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Dual Save The sp ecificatio n of whether a logical volume group is defined as “FLOA TING” or with cache residen ce in a par ti cular cach e is made in the “Loc ation” field when the logic al volume group is def ined (s ee section “Lo gical V ol ume Groups ” on pag e 173 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 72

    72 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Dual Save Selec ted system adminis trator activi ties 4.3. 2 System a dministrat or acti vities 4.3.2.1 Assigning a logical vo lume gro up to two ph y sical v olume gr oups ● The form and detailed inf or mation ar e provided in the section “ Ph ysic al V olume Oper a- tions » Link/Unl ink V olum e Groups” on page 221 . ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 73

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 73 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Reorganization 4.4 R eorgan izatio n A br ief overview of the reorganizati on of tape car tr idges can b e f ound on page 37 . 4.4.1 Wh y do we need reor ganization? Reorga nization s are perfor med for the following f our reas ons: 1. Effective use of the physical v olumes ’ cap ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 74

    74 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Reorga nization Select ed system administra tor activi ties 4. Physical volume i naccessi ble status The PL M can no lon ger acces s the physical volume. This ca n be due to the following reasons: – The robot cannot access the physical volume. – The tape header c annot be rea d. The lo gical volumes a ff ected m a y need ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 75

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 75 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Reorganization 4.4.3 When is a reor ganization perfor med? Depen ding on the type of ev ent or status which trig gers reorgani zation, the PLM perf or ms reorgani zation eith er immediately afte r the e v ent occurs or within a configurable time of day interv al. The following thre ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 76

    76 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Reorga nization Select ed system administra tor activi ties Once t he number of sc ratch tapes rea ches the hard limit aga in, the “a ll clear” i s given (see page 76 ): SXPL01 1 ... PLM( #11): NO TICE: nu mber of fr ee PVs of PV -group <PVG> ove r absolu te minimu m (<num> ) again For the follo wing statuses, ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 77

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 77 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Reorganization Only ph ysical v olum es in rea d s tatus on whic h the relati v e prop or tion of valid d ata is less than the p ercenta ge value config ured in the Fill Grade par amete r are taken into accou nt. If a ph ysical v olume is in write status a nd the perce ntage value ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 78

    78 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Reorga nization Select ed system administra tor activi ties 4.4.5 Own p h ysical v olume s for reorganization bac kup The PLM d istinguish es between backup requ ests from the host and ba ckup requests which are caused by a reorganiz ation. As long as the number of scr atc h tapes is abov e the har d min imu m , the PLM atte ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 79

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 79 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Reorganization 4.4.7 Configuration parameters All conf iguration p arameters ca n be set s pecifical ly for each physical volume group. It must b e ensure d that a depe ndency o n the number of a vailable drives e xists and that not too m any reorganizat ions take place in paralle ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 80

    80 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Reorga nization Select ed system administra tor activi ties When th e percentag e of valid dat a on a physical volume which is i n wri te statu s and is not cur rently mounted in a Physical Device Service is below thi s limit v alue and at the same tim e a reorganiz ation is in progre ss because a scratch tape limi t v alue h ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 81

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 81 Sele cted sy stem adm inist rator activi ties Cleaning physical drives PLM Refres h Inter val Numbe r of da ys afte r which the physical volumes in this group are to be recopi ed. The count s tar ts with the d a y on whic h the physical volume s witched from scrat ch s tatus to write st atus. Th is value must be defi ned in ac ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 82

    82 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Synchr onization of the system time using NTP Selec ted system adminis trator activi ties 4.6 Synchr onization of the system time using NTP In Cent ricStor the configura tion with reg ard to NTP is carr ied out automatical ly , whi ch mean s that the file /etc/ntp.conf i s created with the app ropria te entr ies f or eac h co ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 83

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 83 5 Operating an d monitoring CentricStor 5.1 T echnical design 5.1. 1 General Centr icStor moni toring and operatio n is carr ied out o n two le vels b y GXCC and XTCC. . Figure 29: GXCC/XTCC on the CentricStor ISPs (example VT A 2000-5000) CentricStor Centric Stor conso le FICON ESCON ESCON SCSI SCSI SCSI SCSI LAN IDP GXCC XTC ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 84

    84 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T echnical design Operat ing and mo nitoring Cen tricStor GXCC (G lobal Exte nded Con trol Center ) is a pro gr am wit h an X us er interface that provid es a comp lete graphical r epresentat ion of a Cen tricS tor system, an d cov ers all connecte d devices a nd ISPs (In tegrated Ser vic e Process ors) su ch as ICP s (Integr ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 85

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 85 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Technica l design The fi gure below shows the components and the co nnection s used for control and monitor ing (t he Fibre Ch annel networ king and the paths to th e hosts a re not shown): Figure 30: GXCC com ponents with X11 s erver as remote c omputer In this e xample GXC C runs on a C ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 86

    86 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T echnical design Operat ing and mo nitoring Cen tricStor In this con figuration GXCC runs on the remote c omputer (e.g. Windows PC) and us es the interfaces of its user inte rf ace directl y . At s hor t inter vals GX CC inquires of the Centr icStor VLP whet her there is new data. Here only 20 bytes are transferred. If new d ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 87

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 87 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Technica l design 5.1.3 Monitoring structure within a Centr icStor ISP The figur e on page 89 c ontains a mor e detailed r epresentat ion of how GXCC moni tors the indiv idual Centr icStor co ntrol co mponents. This fi gure shoul d also be regarded a s one example of the m any configurati ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 88

    88 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T echnical design Operat ing and mo nitoring Cen tricStor The ta b le below li sts the cont rol compon ents: GXCC/XT CC can also r un on S INIX-Z/Solar is/LINUX/Wi ndows systems whic h are indepen dent of Centr icStor . In this cas e, GXCC co nnects via th e LAN to the Reques tBroker of the ISP referenced i n the unit s elect ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 89

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 89 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Technica l design Figure 32: Monitoring structure in CentricSt or (e xample VT A 2000-500 0) Screen Keyboard Mo use ESCON, FICO N or FC host conn ection TCP/IP LAN TCP/IP LAN or TCP/IP co nnection with in pr oces sor Components managed v ia SNMP SCSI or FC conn ections to drive s and lib ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 90

    90 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T echnical design Operat ing and mo nitoring Cen tricStor 5.1.4 Operat ing modes GXCC recognizes the following thre e user p rivil ege lev els: Service mode Access to all Centr icStor fu nctions availab le via GXCC . Users must use the “diag” password to ide ntify themse lves to the Centri cStor ISP wi th which they are c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 91

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 91 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Operator configur ation 5.2 Operator configuration 5.2.1 B asic co nfiguration Withou t requir ing additio nal hard ware or fur ther sof tware licences, Cen tricS tor off ers the follo wing configuratio n for operation and monitori ng: Figure 33: CentricStor basic configuration Withi n a ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 92

    92 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Operator c onfiguration Operat ing and mo nitoring Cen tricStor 5.2.3 GXCC in other sy stems GXCC can also be i nstalled an d is ex e cutable in Windows 9 8/NT/2000 /XP , LINUX and SOLA RIS systems. An ins tallation CD is supplie d with each Ce ntricS tor . T his contain s the tools a nd inform ation file s require d f or ins ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 93

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 93 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Operator configur ation 5.2.5.2 S NMP and GX CC Monitor ing and operation of Cen tricSt or by GXCC run s independen tly of SN MP . In addit ion, howe ver , Ce ntri cStor also of f ers the ba sic func tions requir ed f or man agement via an SNMP station. Thank s to the great fle xibility o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 94

    94 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Operator c onfiguration Operat ing and mo nitoring Cen tricStor The fi gure below shows some of the pos sible configurations f or an SNM P manager for connec ting GXTXCC to the tri ggerin g Centric Stor on the basis of a tra p: Figure 34: Configuration options at an SNMP management station – In the cas e of confi gurations ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 95

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 95 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC – The GUI s oftware must be in stalled explicitly o n the works tation for operation of GXCC outside Ce ntricStor . A CD with GXCC (GUI CD) i s provided free with each Centr icStor. GXCC can be i nstalled an unlimite d number of time s to r un Centr icStor . It will run on ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 96

    96 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r The ta b le below li sts the po ssible star t paramete rs: Pa r a me t e r Meaning C omment -aspect 1 <para m> Size and position of the mai n win- dow on the screen <param> has the for mat [=][WxH]+| -X+|-Y WxH: Widt h x heigh t (pixels) X,Y: Coordi nat es (pix e ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 97

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 97 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC T o star t in User m ode, use: gxcc <other parameters> & or GXCC -user <parameters> & T o star t in Obs er v e mode, use: GXCC -o bserve <param eters> & 5.3.2. 1 Exp lanation of the star t para meter -aspec t The argu ment of thi s parameter h a ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 98

    98 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r 5.3.3 E n v ir onme nt variable XTCC_CL ASS GXCC supp or ts an envir onment variable with th is names as follo ws: If this environm ent variable is not def ined when GXCC i s star ted, i t is set to the value “Xtcc ”. Other wise the s pecified value i s taken. The rel e ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 99

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 99 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC 5.3.4.1 O ptional acce ss control for Observ e mode When a Cen tricSt or V3.1 sy stem is instal led, the “xtcc obsv” ID is set up by def ault and th e line “ + x tccobsv ” en tered in the home/xtccobsv/ .rhosts fil e. As a result this optiona l acces s control is ini ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 100

    100 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r 5.3.4.3 Suppressing the passw or d query Releasing individual users The pa ssw ord quer y can be sup presse d if an ent ry in the .rh osts fil e per mits a ccess to Centr icStor . T o do this, the monitor ing sys tem is entered in the f ollowing .rh osts file on the monitor ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 101

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 101 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC 5.3.4.4 A dditional password query If GXCC or XTCC requi res a pass word to transf er an update ( see the section “Soft ware up- dates” on page 1 18 ) or manual (see the sect ion “Onli ne Manual” on p age 235 ), the follow- ing wi ndo w ap pears : This password quer ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 102

    102 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r 5.3.5 S tarting the CentricStor console ● P osition the m ouse pointer to a neutral s creen are a. ● Pres s the rig ht mo use b utton. ● The Roo t Menu appears, inc luding the fu nction “Global eXtended C ontrol Center ”. If you selec t this it em, you are offered ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 103

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 103 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC – and the Requ estBroker of the connected IS P , which ga thers inform ation from al l compo- nents an d f orwards comm ands fro m the man/m achine i nterf ace to the respective recip ients (XTCC, which on ly ev e r handle s a sing le ISP , connects itself di rectly to th ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 104

    104 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r 5.3.6. 2 U sing the dir ect XDMCP int erface The fu ll range of XDM CP (X Disp la y Manage r Control P rotocol) f unctions c annot be used in Centr icS tor 2.1. Y ou are stron gly recommen ded to use the X11 s ervers in P as sive mode. 5.3.6.3 S tartin g from a UNIX system ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 105

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 105 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC 5.3.6. 4 St artin g from a Windows system via Exceed With ap propri ate preparation, GXCC can be star ted b y clicking an icon on th e desktop. More d etails can b e f ound in the Exceed hel p informat ion. This sec tion only de scrib es the GXCC-sp ecific settings of Excee ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 106

    106 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r Star ting GXCC via Exceed Ê Star t Exceed (p ref erably via the W indows autostar t functi on). Ê Choose “X star t”. Ê Activate the Star t menu as shown in the following example: The user ID is tele , and the password entere d must be the appropr iate tele password. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 107

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 107 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC Choose the Windows S tar t menu “Pro grams” ➟ “Hummingbird Connectivi ty” ➟ “Excee d” and ➟ “Xsessi on” to displ a y a sele ction of sta r t files: When you have selected th e star t file a nd chosen “ Run!”, GXCC w ill be star te d on the selected ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 108

    108 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r 5.3.6.5 S tartin g from a Windows/NT sys tem via XVision When ins talling XV ision, the U NIX environme nt must also have been instal led. XVision setting An example is shown in the f ollowin g diagram: It is i mpor tant tha t the disp la y mode “ Multiple wi ndows” is ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 109

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 109 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC The di agram below shows an example of the f o nts setti ng: Ê The “Allow font substituti on” option mus t be disabled. Ê When s pecifying th e f ont pat h items, the UNIX fonts must b e listed before other f onts. If different set tings are de fined, the la yout of G ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 110

    110 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r All op tions must be disabled in the “Sec urit y” tab . The “XDM CP” box ma y not be ch ec ked, to ensu re that Passiv e mode is secure: Settings f or the c lient The X 11 ser ver must be incl uded in the ho st list of the com puter on whic h the GXCC i s ru nning. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 111

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 111 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC Starting GXCC with the “Remote Progr am Starter” Ideally , GXCC s hould be a ctiv ated vi a the “Rem ote Program Star ter”. T his allows the proce ss to be automa ted such t hat GXCC can be star ted b y clicking an icon. Whe n GXCC is st ar ted in O bser ve mode, no ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 112

    112 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r Example The setti ngs unde r “Options” an d “View Respons e” should cor respond to those shown i n the example. The fu ll conten ts of the com mand line ar e shown in the “Display” tab: The inp ut field “Tit le” has no effect and shoul d not be used. If you ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 113

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 113 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC The se ttings ca n be sav e d in a file wit h an .rps extension. Wh en you double-click the file, the Re mote Program St ar ter is sta r ted and e x ecutes th is file. If you crea te a link to this file on the de sktop, y ou can t herefore star t GXCC b y double-cli ck ing ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 114

    114 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r This a llows you to control wh ether ev er yone with access to your host ca n also star t GXCC . Y ou can sav e the settings. After the ter minal e mulation has s tar ted, you can activate the sav ed setti ngs and esta b lish t he connecti on. 5.3.7 G XCC welcom e screen Wh ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 115

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 115 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC If the local system is not par t of a Centr icStor network an d no unit na me is specif ied in the star t parameters, a mes sage box will be outp ut leadin g you to the “Unit Se lect” menu (see the sec tions “Selecti ng the Centr icStor s ystem” on page 116 a nd “ ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 116

    116 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r 5.3. 8 Selecting the Cent ricStor syst em If th e local sys tem is no t par t of Centri cStor , the Uni t Select m enu is disp la yed when GX CC is star ted. Example The op eration and fun ctions of Uni t Select are descr ibed in the secti on “Select” on page 147 . Erro ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 117

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 117 Operating and monito ring CentricS tor Starting GXCC 5.3.10 Aut hentication As soon as a connection has been established, c lient authentic ation takes place. P as s word- based a uthenticat ion is perfor med ev er y time the program is st ar ted. When ope rating in User m ode, you will be requ ested by the addres sed system ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 118

    118 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Starting GXCC Operating and monitoring CentricSto r If the pass word is e ntered inco rrectly thr ee times, GXCC wi ll be star ted in O bser ve mode (but only if no password protectio n has been set for Obser ve mode). 5.3.11 Software updat es If you hav e contac ted a “rem ote” Centr icStor s ystem, the In f o Broker ch ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 119

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 119 6G X C C 6.1 Main wi ndow 6.1.1 Standar d The GXCC ma in window shows a circ uit diagram of Centr icStor . If pictures of r eal products (robots, dr ives, RAID systems ) are used, the se are only symbols whi ch bear no r elation to the actu al appearance of the pr oduct. The ma in window con sits of the following areas (from ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 120

    120 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC ● Left half of screen – Circui t diagram of Centr icStor ● Right hal f of screen – Syst em inform ation – Inform ation field ● Line wit h the la st cons ole alar m mes sage and a cknowledgment button ● Footer 6.1.2 Lo ss of a connection If the connect ion to the In f oBroker is lost, the data ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 121

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 121 GXCC Main window 6.1.3 Elements of the GXCC main windo w 6.1.3.1 Tit le bar The title bar is laid o ut as follo ws: <systemnam e>: CentricStor(< IP-address><un it-name>) <sys temname> : System name ente red dur ing configuratio n. No disp la y if no s ystem name has been entered . <IP-addr ess>&l ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 122

    122 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC An err or fl ag (y ello w or pink) can be disp la y ed on ly if the I nf obrok er h as be en star ted and is op erational. Cons equently in cer tain situ ations, especi ally dur ing the boot p hase of individual ISPs, it can occur th at an over all s tatus of turquoise (OK) is d isplay ed ev en though the s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 123

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 123 GXCC Main window –S c a n r a t e Inter val between s cans in seconds. –B i t r a t e The floatin g point number shows the bit rate for communication wit h the InfoBroker . The rate is ca lculated us ing the leng th of time taken to transfer a statu s inf or mation pac kage. This ind icator is of par ti cular inte rest in ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 124

    124 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC 6.1.3.5 C onsole message s Consol e messag es are displ a yed ab ov e the f ooter . Thes e can be: – syste m messag es – messag es rela ting to the system configuration – messag es relatin g to the co nnection between GXCC and the system The l ast mess sage is al wa y s displayed. Y ou obtain the c om ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 125

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 125 GXCC Main window 6.1.4 M essag e window Many GXCC messages mus t be taken notice of and acknowledge d by the user . This pre vents the same function o r contradict ory functio ns being sta r ted on one device. Messa ge windows wit h an “OK” button are c losed af ter you click on this button. Message wi ndows without an ? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 126

    126 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC 6.1.6 B lock diagram The m ain window displ a ys a ci rcuit diagram of th e Centr icStor sys tem with t he ISPs, RAID systems and the c onnecting F ibre Channe l system. Processors Centr icStor i s a group of pr ocessors, each r unni ng the SINIX- Z operating sys tem. These proce ssors are referred to c oll ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 127

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 127 GXCC Main window If th e A utoVLP f a ilov er functi on has been configu red, it can be activated. If th e functio n was activated before a shut down took place, VLP monitor ing is acti v ated auto matically on this ISP by mean s of a reboot. The Ce ntricS tor controlle r could not be dete rmin ed: This sta tus also occurs te ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 128

    128 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC Speci al aspects when performing Distri bute and Activate The following spec ial aspects must be bor ne in mind wh en perform ing Distribute and Activa- te : ● Some G XCC menu item s are hidde n. ● The cu rrent pro gress is di splay ed in blue sc ript in the sys tem mess age line. Messag es are display ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 129

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 129 GXCC Main window Fibre chan nel elements The i ntern al FC con nections are repres ented in the form of a n FC fabric i n the ce nter of t he figure with connec tions to both the ISPs and the RAID system(s) . FibreChan nel connec - tions to the FC s witch which ar e f aulty are drawn with dashe d lines until the SNMP trap has ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 130

    130 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC A check is m ade to se e whether , in the cas e of redunda nt Fibre Ch annel syste ms, the connec tions go from e v er y ISP to vari ous s witches and whethe r the FC ada pter with the lowest number goes to the s witch with the lo west number (throughput opti mizatio n). Host connections In the o vervi e w ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 131

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 131 GXCC Main window The co lors have the following meanin g: Green Operational Pink Not operation al, no ca che file system aff ected As in the case of the FibreCA T CX500 /CX3-20 or Et ernus 3000/4000 it is not possible to rea d the status v ia an FC po r t, the “ope rational” status ( green) is display ed for these RAID sy ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 132

    132 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC Left-cl ic king o n the RAID s ymbol causes fur ther i nf or mation to be output i n the rig ht- hand par t of th e GXCC info window: This example shows a C entric Stor with two RAID system s (IDs: 1 and 2). Informati on on both RAID systems i s output in th e info window: The pr imar y cac hes 100, 101 , 1 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 133

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 133 GXCC Main window 6.1.6.1 S tatus informatio n The cur rent operatin g status of Cen tricS tor elements is indic ated by the background colo r of the ass ociated sym bols. The bar on the ri ght which is divided into sev eral comp ar tments shows the s tatus of h ardware compon ents and dr ivers. Y ou can obtain det ailed in f ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 134

    134 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC 6.1.7 ICP object information In orde r to be able to con nect to vario us host type s , ISPs can contain ESCON/FICON channe l adapter s, FC adapters or both types of connecti on. The ob ject inform ation will v ar y accordi ngly . Objec t informatio n of an ICP w hich con tains only FibreChann el por ts. Th ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 135

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 135 GXCC Main window 6.1.8 IDP object information The following inform ation i s display ed: – name and release version of the IDP – if prese nt: IP a ddress of the exter nal LAN po r t(in the e xample the extern al por t is faulty) – the statu s of the FC c ontroller f or the co nnection to the cache (= top box) – the op ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 136

    136 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC 6.1.11 Information about the RAID systems This inf or mation bo x shows the following inf or mation f or e very RA ID system ( by a bo x symbo l to the r ight of the RAID symbol) : – the type and target numbe r of the RAID c ontroller (s) – the statu s of the RAID c ontroller(s) – any additio nal info ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 137

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 137 GXCC Main window 6.1.12 RAID syst em functions The following window ap pears when you r ight-cli c k on the RA ID symbol: 6.1.12.1 S how complete RAID stat us Selec ting this option di splays all the dat a of the RAID system s: As in th e case of the FibreCA T CX50 0/CX3-20 and Eter nus 3000/4 000 it is no t possible to read ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 138

    138 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC 6.1.13 Information on Fibre Channel fabric Informat ion on FC s witch es can be obtained vi a SNMP ( Simple Netwo rk Mana gement Protocol ). The mnem onic name, operating sta tus, and contents of the last unproces sed trap are ou tput. If the m essage “No data received” is display ed instea d of this in ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 139

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 139 GXCC Main window 6.1.14.1 C ontroller Color Sche me Y ou can selec t whether you wish to disp la y the FC connecti ons in su ch a way that all connec tions to a s ingle IS P are disp la yed in the sam e color ( Controll er Color Sche me) or so that al l connectio ns to a domai n (a s witch ) are displ a yed in the same colo r ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 140

    140 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC 6.1.15 Information about the FC connections If you hover the mouse poi nter ov er an i con belongi ng to an F C connection , information abou t this line w ill be disp la yed. The following informa tion is o utput: – the name of the switch, as ass igned dur ing co nfiguration, an d – the por t that the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 141

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 141 GXCC Main window 6.1.17 ISP system mess ages If an impor tant c onsole mes sage is ent ered in the l og file ( /usr/ap c/vtls/ VTLS_MESSA GES ) of one of the Centr icStor I SPs, this is displ a yed in the lower par t of the GXCC window . Messag es with the st atuses “ER R OR”, “CRIT ICAL ” (red) and “ALE R T ”, ? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 142

    142 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Mai n window GXCC 6.1.19 C onfiguration Chang ed If a co nfiguration cha nge is currentl y being pr ocessed in Ce ntricS tor , a flo ppy disk sym bol with a yellow background will appear in the button bar . This oc curs if a m enu item of th e config uration co mplex is confir med with “OK” afte r activation of the last ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 143

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 143 GXCC Function bar 6.2 Function bar dd The i ndividual f unctions c an be select ed either by clic king on them with your mou se or by pressi ng the AL T k ey together wi th the accel erator ke y (under lined l etter). How e xactly suc h shor tcu ts are handl ed depend s on the op erating sys tem or the Window Mana ger , e.g. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 144

    144 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC ● Configurat ion ( page 166 ) – RAID Filesy stems ( page 171 ) – Logical V olume Groups ( pag e 173 ) – Ph ysical V olume Gro ups ( page 181 ) – Distri b ute and A ctivate ( page 188 ) ● Prof ile ( page 191 ) – Add/Sel ect Prof ile ( page 19 1 ) ● Admin istr ation ( page 193 ) – Show WWN ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 145

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 145 GXCC Function bar 6.2. 2 File Es st ehen folgende Fun ktionen zur V erfü gung: – Sa v e – Open – Sho w – Print – Exit 6.2.2. 1 Save Sav es the c urrent InfoBroker data. Y ou can th us use this to recover the system display subse quently . By default, co nfigurations a re sav ed as .gxd fil es. With thi s function y ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 146

    146 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.2. 2 Open Opens a file selec tor window wit h which you can ope n a configurati on that was gene rated with “Save” (see above). The wi ndow contains the field for enter ing the fi le name plus the following functio n k eys: OK Checks whether th e specifie d file is a valid GXCC config uration file ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 147

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 147 GXCC Function bar 6.2.2. 5 Exit Shuts down GXCC. It is reco mmended t hat you use this function i n preference to th e button in the to p left-hand c orn er of the wind ow . When G XCC is shut down, any global s tatus proc esses sta r ted from G XCC will rema in acti v e . 6.2.3 U nit In this manual the IS Ps of a Ce ntricS t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 148

    148 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC The in direct con nection is used to mo nitor system s whic h cannot be reached directl y ( Exam ple: M odem conn ection to the “sock et_ho st” with “targ et_host” c onnected t o a LAN). In this case fir st a sock et conn ection is set up to the “sock et_hos t”, and this is then con tinued ste ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 149

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 149 GXCC Function bar Buttons at the bottom o f the screen OK Establishes a connecti on to the ISP sel ected in the lise. If the uni t address was only ente red in the en try field, it will not be i ncor porated in the list. Add Adds the entered un it data to t he list. Remove Removes the selected e ntr y from the list. Replac e ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 150

    150 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.4 Options Allows you to set the window size and th e page ratio. When defi ning the graphic display setting s, it is reco mmended th at you stop the Autoscan pro cess (see th e section “Star t A utosc an/Stop Autoscan” o n page 152 ), since ot herwise the display will a lwa ys retur n to the or ig ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 151

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 151 GXCC Function bar Cust om er N ame This fiel d contains a cu stomer nam e that is a maximum of 60 characters long and which can be edite d in User or Ser vice mode. Spec ial characters " $ [ ] ' will be replac ed b y unders cores “_”. E ach time a chang e is made to the st ring an d the OK button is c lic ked, ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 152

    152 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.5 Autoscan 6.2.5. 1 St art Autoscan/S top Autoscan An Autoscan is a process by means of wh ich informa tion is t ransf erred pe riod ically from the InfoBrokers to GXCC, and the graph ical disp la y is s ubsequent ly update d accordin gly . It is either active (star ted) or i nactive (stopped), its st ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 153

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 153 GXCC Function bar 6.2.5. 2 Settings The s lider cont rols the Autoscan inter val f or exchanging informa tion with t he InfoBroker . An A utosc an cycle cons ists of dat a transfer , display generatio n and autos can delay . The de f a ult set ting is “Se lf Adjustin g”. In this mo de, the inter val is autom atically ad a ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 154

    154 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.6 T ools The following functions are offered: – Global S tatus – Get Remo te/Expand Local Fi le – Show Remote Fi le – Sho w Syst em Mess age s – GXCC Update/ Re v er t T ool (only off ered to auth oriz ed us ers) 6.2.6. 1 Glo bal Stat us This function is used to cal l the Globa l Status Mon ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 155

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 155 GXCC Function bar The wi ndow contains the follo wing f ields: Remo te Host / IP-Add ress [Descr iption]: Name or IP address of the remote system together with an optiona l comment. Remote Us er : Remote s ystem user ID u nder which fil e transf er is perfor med. Remo te P a ss word: P assword (not visible) for the remote sys ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 156

    156 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Browse Local Opens a dialog b o x in whic h you can selec t and open a local fi le f or the “ Expand Local” functio n. Hel p Opens a window with he lp informati on. Cancel Closes the menu. 6.2.6.3 S how Remote File Opens a menu cons isting of sev eral entr y fields, a message window , a li st bo x and ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 157

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 157 GXCC Function bar Remo te P a ss word P assword (not visi b le) for the remote system ID under w hich data trans f er is per f o rm ed. Messa ges Field used to outpu t message s from the c omponents inv ol v ed in fi le transfer . The follo wing t e x t colors are used: black and green f or the p rocess sequ ence, red for err ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 158

    158 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.6. 4 Sh ow System Messag es Opens a te xt wind ow to display the ISP sy stem mess ages. The window is aut omatical ly positi oned on the last outp uts. The cons ole mes sages of all Centric Stor system s are lis ted by prior ity and in the order in which t hey occurred. Y ou can also d ispla y the s y ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 159

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 159 GXCC Function bar DateTime Date a nd time in the f or m YYYY -MM-DD HH:MM:SS. ISP-N ame N ame of the IS P from whic h the mes sage or iginates. Separato r One or two characters (for their meani ng see pa ge 441 ) Messag e te xt In addit ion to the f unctions available in all text windows, the fun ction bar of the system messa ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 160

    160 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC If the onlin e manuals hav e to be up dated as well, the ma nuals are transferred in the background after the pro gram files. If the transf er is complet ed succes sfully , the new manual is activated auto matically an d the older editi on deleted. Thus, if you do not activate a new software version immed ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 161

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 161 GXCC Function bar Carrying out a software update When you c hoose the menu c ommand, th e f ollowing wind ow appears: A list of the GXCC versions in existence is displ a yed in the upper par t of the window , star ting with the most recen t v ersion. The version of GXCC (or XTCC) that they are curren tly usin g is displayed i ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 162

    162 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC A monito r program keeps trac k of all th e GXCCs and thei r ramifications. It in itiates th e termi - nation of s ubapplicati ons and br ings it to your attention if other users ar e also using GXCC . The l ow er half of the scree n contains the output a rea “Dialog ”, which di splays the update stat ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 163

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 163 GXCC Function bar Help Op ens a text window cont aining he lp informa tion. This is also an active GXCC/XTCC a pplication, and it is thus closed wh en the upda te operation is e xecuted. Y ou thus cann ot k eep t he window open d uring th e update. This should not be a problem becaus e there are context-sens itiv e explanatio ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 164

    164 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC ● Y ou restar t agai n. This ti me the pro cess ends wit h the green m essage “Up date done”. ● It now makes sense to ter minate the update tool by means of the “Canc el” button. The ser vice that monito rs all the application s of the G XCC/XTCC f amily is thus rest ar ted with the u pdated v ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 165

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 165 GXCC Function bar Proc edure If you were able to st ar t the tool , first a win dow will open which explains the fur ther proce dure. This proc edure cons ists of the f ollowing s teps: 1. S elect the co mponent to be repaire d: GXCC or X TCC 2. Select the remot e system fr om which the compress ed archi v e of the selected c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 166

    166 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.7 Configuration PV Gs and L V G s can be c onfigured, i .e. created, modi fied and d eleted, in User mode. Chang ed parameters ar e stored in th e file /us r/apc/ broker/ vtls_v g.conf. new . Th e floppy disk symb ol appears in the Centr icStor main window . The chan ged dat a is activated using the ? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 167

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 167 GXCC Function bar ➟ Configuration menu on the fu nction bar Clicking the “Confi guration” button in the toolba r opens a drop-down menu with the following items : – RAID Filesy stems – Logica l V ol ume Group s – Physical V olume Groups – Distr ibute and Activ ate Selec ting the r equired fun ction provides acce ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 168

    168 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Elements of the configuration dialog bo xes Command b uttons along t he lower b or der: All dial og box es used to chan ge the con figuration have the same s et of buttons: OK T emporari ly sav es your changes to /usr/ap c/broker/vtls. conf.new or /usr/apc/brok er/vtls_vg.co nf.new and ens ures that th e ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 169

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 169 GXCC Function bar List editor The following example di splays a configurat ion dialog b o x con taining two l ists: Sev e ral objects of the same type often have to be defi ned at conf iguration (e.g. Vir t ual Librar y Se rvers, PV Gs, L V Gs). Th e list edito r in the con figuration d ialog box es is used for thi s. An edi ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 170

    170 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Adding a new ob ject: Click the “N EW” button. An e mpty entr y fiel d appears i n which you can e nter a nam e. Depen ding on the ty pe of the o bject, fur t her entr y fie lds will al so be disp la yed. These are filled with defaults wherev er this is possi ble or useful. If you enter a f or mally c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 171

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 171 GXCC Function bar 6.2.7.1 R AID Filesyste ms After you have selected thi s function a f orm for configuri ng the RAID system is displayed: In Obser ve and User mod e the OK button is n ot present an d all the checkbox es are disabled . Buttons Dis able caches Some t ests on empty fil e systems an d consis tent L VG assig nmen ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 172

    172 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Inf o rmati on Mirroring Whether the mirro r function is enabled or disabled in Ce ntricS tor is sp ecified h ere. The attr ibutes of a RAID syste m with th e mirror fu nction enabled, whether a nd how it is mirrored, are defin ed by the assignmen t of the LUNs during RAID configurat ion. Con fig ura tion ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 173

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 173 GXCC Function bar Key Status The meaning of the various colors a nd checkbox condit ions is explained. T he cells a lso con tain a sum mar y (e.g. “mo unted 85”). Command butt ons along the lowe r borde r Cancel Closes the window . Rese t The se tting is rese t to the value when the window was open ed. The window r emains ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 174

    174 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Buttons and entry fields In the cas e of L VGs already dis tributed with “Distr ibute and Activate”, the “ T o Be Deleted” button is offered (as in the form above), in the case o f newly entered L V Gs the “DEL ETE” button. The “BAS E” L VG is alwa ys presen t and cann ot be delet ed. The ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 175

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 175 GXCC Function bar “DELETE” b utton: Appear s only if a line is se lected an d the sel ected L VG has not yet been ma de known to the sy stem. This i s typically the case if you ha ve just created an L V G and have not yet selected “ Distri b ute a nd Activate”. Not to be confused wi th the “Delete L V Gs” functio ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 176

    176 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC take no actio n. Once the reques t to dele te an L V G has been suc cessfully issued and activated in th e system , the action i s an asynchr onous acti on and ca nnot be influen ced by the user . Nam e Name of the L VG. The data of the L V G is kept under this name in Centri cStor . The L V G is defi ned ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 177

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 177 GXCC Function bar Further info rmation Reducin g the L V s ize of an existing L VG: It is not possible to reduc e the L V size of a n e xistin g L V G in Centr icSto r . If you want a smaller L V size, y ou must create a new L V G with the requi red L V size. The data wh ich was writt en to the large L Vs must then be wri tte ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 178

    178 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Erase Sc r atch L Vs This sp ecifies how the d ata of sc r atch volumes is to be ha ndled: ENABLE D Only the stub da ta (volume header) is to be ret ained. CA UTION! With this settin g it mu st be assume d at al l times that t he dat a on scratch volumes - and also o n the physical volumes - will auto - m ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 179

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 179 GXCC Function bar Command butt ons along the lowe r borde r OK Accep ts the entr y . It bec omes effective with “Distr ibute and A ctiv ate”. The “Configu - ration Cha nged” symb ol (floppy disk symbo l) appea rs in the GXCC main wind ow . The changed configuration data is stored, ev e n after GXCC has ter mina ted. I ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 180

    180 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC The s ettings f or the c ache file sy stem can be m odified la ter at any time. After a modi fication a “Dis tribute and A ctivate” operation is required in which, howe ver , only the VLM a nd the PLM must be resta r ted if this was the only change. If assi gnments between ca che file sy stems a nd L ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 181

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 181 GXCC Function bar 6.2.7.3 P hysical V olume Groups In t his wind ow v olume gro ups of t he physical volumes can be created, de leted or modifie d. When th e window is c alled the e x isting physical volume groups are i nitially di splay ed: In the cas e of PV Gs alrea dy distr ibuted with “ Distri b ute and A ctivate”, t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 182

    182 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC List a rea At the top of the f orm th ere is a list area wi th data regarding P V G s that hav e al ready been integrated. T he following is disp la yed: Name Name of the PV G T ype T ype of th e PV G T ape Lib rary T ape l ibrar y assign ed Comm ent Comment T o Be Del eted Mar king f or del eting the vol ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 183

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 183 GXCC Function bar “DELETE” b utton: Appear s only if a line is selected and the selec ted PV G has not yet been mad e known to th e system. This is typica lly the c ase if you h a ve just cr eated a PV G and h av e not yet select ed “Distri b ute an d Activate”. Not to be confu sed with the “D elete PV Gs” func ti ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 184

    184 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC T ape Libr ar y The volumes of the group are st ored in this physical ar chive. The archi v es defi ned in t he configu ration are offered. Thi s field can be change d only until the PVG has been activated using “Distr ibute and Activate”. Ty p e T ype of the PVG. A PV G can be of the type “ST ACKED ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 185

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 185 GXCC Function bar Reor ganisation P arameter s PLM Refres h Inter val (Da ys) Number of da ys afte r which thi s group’ s v olumes ar e to be refr eshed. This v alue must be defin ed in accor dance wi th the tape m anuf a cturer’ s recomm endations. V alue range : min: 90, max : 999, default: 365 Absol ute Minimum (V olum ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 186

    186 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Wr ite Throughp ut (MB/sec ) Wr ite Overhead (sec) The PL M uses the W rite Throughpu t and Wr ite Overhead paramete rs to sele ct the physical volume which i t can relea se in the shor test t ime in the e v ent of a reorgani- zation. Write T hroughput s pecifies the estimate d writ e perf or mance of t h ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 187

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 187 GXCC Function bar Creating a new ph ysical volume gr oup A new PV G is created b y clicking on the NEW button. In the PVG list an empty li ne is opened and hig hlighted. All edit ing fie lds e xcept for “Nam e” and “Com ment” ar e filled with default values. The physical v olume group i s set up by enter ing a na me i ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 188

    188 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.7.4 D istribute and Activate Then D istribute and A ctiv ate fu nction is nor ma lly called af ter a change has been mad e to the con figuration. The chan ged confi guration files are distr ibuted to a ll the Centr icStor pr ocessors. The software l icenses in th e VLP are di stributed as required . O ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 189

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 189 GXCC Function bar Buttons OK If the co nfiguration data is cor rect, a se curi ty quer y is di splay ed. When you acknowledge this, “ Distribute a nd Activate” is ex ecuted. The new configuration d ata is distr ibuted to all IS Ps. Dependin g on the type o f change Ce ntricS tor proce sses are stopped and restar ted . The ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 190

    190 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Notes on naming the configuration files The ac tiv e confi guration fi les /usr/apc/conf/v tls.conf a nd /usr/apc/c onf/vtls_vg.c onf are ren amed i n all ISP s of t he Ce ntricS tor t o /usr/apc/c onf/vtls.conf .yyyymmddhhii ss and /usr/apc/c onf/vtls_vg.c onf.yyyymmddh hiiss ( yyyymmdd = Y earMon thDa y ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 191

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 191 GXCC Function bar 6.2.8 Pr ofile The ter m “profi le” encompas ses the follo wing: – the settings chosen un der “Options ” – the settings chosen un der “Autoscan” – the window si ze and position as set usi ng the graphical user interface The s creen si ze can be p redefine d as a st ar t parame ter (-si z e) ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 192

    192 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Button s at the botto m of the screen section OK Applie s the sel ected profi le file. The di splay is imme diately a dapted to th e new profile setting s. The newly selected file is shown at the bottom o f the GXCC screen. A ll changes to the profi le data for the curren t session are recorded in this fi ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 193

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 193 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9 A dministrat ion The following functions are offered: – Sho w WWN’ s – Show Option al Functions – Show CS Confi guration – Diagnos tic Snapsh ots – Logica l V ol ume Operatio ns 1 – Physical V olume Operations 2 – Setup for acco unting mai ls 1 If the VLM is not running, this menu item ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 194

    194 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Depen ding on autho rizati on and/or the version of the connecte d Centri cStor system , indi- vidual menu items are not available . The table below shows which menu it ems are av ailable in wh ich mode: Service mode User mode Obser ve mode Shutdown CS System x Destr oy RAID Filesy stems x Start/Stop CS P ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 195

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 195 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9. 1 Sh ow WWN’ s The following informa tion is lis ted for all ISPs: the I P address es, the World Wide Nod e Name s , the W orld Wide P or t Name s and the connect ion number of the FC c onnections to the FC switches of all FC contro llers. Example ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 196

    196 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.9.2 Show Optional Functions The op tional fun ctions (l icenses wh ich must be r eleased u sing a key) are list ed in a text window with a note indicating whe ther or not they are licensed and installe d in this system. Example Subsequ ent instal lation o f individual ke ys is p erf or med under SINIX ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 197

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 197 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9.3 Show CS Configuratio n This function out puts the conte nts of the configuration files /usr/ap c/conf/vtls.c onf, /usr/apc/c onf/vtls_vg.c onf and, if pr esent, /usr/apc/ conf/vtls_add .conf . Example 6.2.9.4 Diagnostic S napshots This function is not offered in Obser ve mode. This fu nction performs ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 198

    198 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Create snapshot( s) When you s elect thi s function, the “Dia gnostic Sn apshots” window is outpu t which c ontains an overvi e w of al l ISPs in the system a nd the D iagnostic S napshots there: The c olumns c ontain the f ollowing infor matio n: ISP Nam e Names of the ISPs # of existing sna pshots N ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 199

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 199 GXCC Function bar “Crea te Snapsh ot(s)” button: If you hav e switched th e “ne w snap shot to be created ” option to “yes” (default: “no”) on the ISPs con cer ned and then press the “Create Snapshot(s) ” button, the sn apshots are generated and sav ed on the sele cted ISPs. T he system acknowledges the us ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 200

    200 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Show survey / Delete sna pshots This fun ction out puts the “Sh ow List of Sna pshots” win dow: The wi ndow contains a l ist of all s napshots i n the syste m. The mo st recent s napshot is contai ned at the to p of the li st, the ol dest at the bott om. The c olumns c ontain the f ollowing infor mati ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 201

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 201 GXCC Function bar “Delet e Snapsho t(s)” button: Clicking on this button c auses all s napshots which are marked wit h “yes” to be de leted. T he system acknowledg es the user inp ut with an informat ion window contai ning the informa tion ”snap shot(s) wil l be delet ed”. If you press “D elete Snaps hot(s)” w ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 202

    202 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC – A ro utine which r uns period ically ch ecks whether the free mem ory in the fil e system s in which t he snaps hots are saved has fallen bel ow the specified v alue. If this is the ca se, the olde st snap shots are deleted: either u ntil eno ugh free me mor y is av ailable agai n in the file system o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 203

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 203 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9.6 Logical V o lume Operations » Show Logica l V olumes As a Ce ntricS tor can co ntain up to 500 000 lo gical volumes sel ection to ols are offered. A menu conta ining a large number of filte r functions for selec ting logica l volumes is ope ned: If you us e the set tings in the screens hot above and ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 204

    204 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Logica l V o lume Group Y ou can sel ect either a logical volume group or “a ll”. Vo l u m e S t a t u s With th e checkbox es you can spec ify that o nly volumes wi th the s elected s tatus are to be disp lay ed. If no ch eckbo x is selecte d all the sel ected volumes of the specif ied volume group(s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 205

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 205 GXCC Function bar The following data is output: VSN V olum e seria l number , name of th e logica l v olume. GRP Logical volume group. A car tridg e migrated from Cen tricS tor V ers ion 1 belo ngs to the BASE group . C-ID Cache ID (this column app ears only when “ CacheID” has been enabled) SIZE Amount o f user data o n ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 206

    206 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Example 2 Output win dow wh en range is set (V olu me ser ial number : STW0 75 ; Number of vol um e s: 6 ): The me aning of th e columns i s e xplained in example 1. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 207

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 207 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9.7 Logical V olume Operations » Show Logical V olumes (physical view) Y ou use this c all to disp lay the logical volumes which ar e known to the PLM togeth er with their sta tuses. Y ou obtain statis tcs on the lo gical volumes by calling the func tion of the sam e name for “logical view”. In cont ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 208

    208 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC The l ogical volume s are disp la yed in the f o llowing window : PLM-spe cific d ata of the L V s is output: L V Name of the L V L V G Name of th e L V g roup size Size of the L V sav e reque st at Save date and tim e: The s a ve request for the L V was ac cepted by the PLM at th is time. PV 1 PV on whic ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 209

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 209 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9.8 Logical V o lume Operations » Change V ol ume Gr oup This fun ction is no t av ai lable in Obser ve mode. Chang es the assi gnment of log ical volumes to a logical volume group . T he data maint enance sys tem of the VLM keeps a r ecord for each logical v olume, showing wher e it is curr ently stor ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 210

    210 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC V ABC 08,...,V ABC03 1. If any volumes do no t e xist in the name range d efined by the star t name and number sp ecifica tions, then this is indicat ed in a r eady messa ge and the operatio n is continued . Thus, in th is e xample, the volumes V ABC0 32 ff . would not b e mov ed. This ackno wledg ement o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 211

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 211 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9.9 Logical V olume Operations » Add Logical V olumes This fun ction is no t av ai lable in Obser ve mode. Input parameter s Enter the following inf or mation in the dialog window: V o lume Ser ial Numb er Name of th e logica l volume (VSN or VOLSER). Any c ombination c onsisting of a maximum o f 6 char ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 212

    212 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Example VXYZ21 r esults in an error m essage if Nu mber of V ol umes > 78. If a n e xisti ng logica l volume is to be re placed by a n empty v olume o f the sa me name, it must first be deleted ( see next section) and then added again. The assignm ent of logi cal volume group to one or two physical vol ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 213

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 213 GXCC Function bar After t he function h as been c ompleted, a message box with a n OK button appear s: When you c lick “OK”, the e ntry f or m and the message bo x disap pear . 6.2.9.10 Logic al V olume Operations » Erase Logical V olumes This fun ction is no t av ai lable in Obser ve mode. This fun ction enables log ica ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 214

    214 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Actions linked with “OK” The de signated logical volumes are removed from th e VLM data maintenan ce system. Imag es of the L V s on physical volumes are not delete d but merely m arked as invalid. If some v olumes are not con tained in the specifi ed name range, the de lete operati on is continued . ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 215

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 215 GXCC Function bar 6.2. 9. 11 Physi cal V olume O pera tion s This submenu offers the following fu nctions: – Sho w Ph ysical V olumes – Link/Un link V olu me Groups – Add Ph ysical V olume s – Erase Ph ysical V olum es – Reorgan ize Ph ysica l V olu mes These menu i tems are offered onl y if the PLM is r unning. 6.2 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 216

    216 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Ther ef ore, you can choo se to dis play: – A specifi c phy sica l v olume (spe cify only the v olum e ID) – All the v olumes in a physical group ( specify o nly the physical v olume gro up) – All the v olumes in a lib rary (specify on ly the li brar y) – All physical volume s (speci fy “all -da ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 217

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 217 GXCC Function bar If the quer y rela tes to multiple v olum es, the f ollowing over view is displayed: Meaning of the informatio n pos Line number PV Numb er of t he ph ysical v olum e When the number is pr efix ed with a plus or minus sign: + = L Vs wr itten but not yet securel y on the PV - = L Vs invalidated but new versio ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 218

    218 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC _r__ Read volume on whi ch no sp ace is availab le for fur ther dat a _rd_ Th e car tr idge is fu ll but an attempt is still m ade to w rite the directo ry onto the tape s___ The PV must be scanned (used for transf er). _v__ Ejected in th e case o f v ault groups _w__ Writ e volume that ca n still be used ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 219

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 219 GXCC Function bar Mean ing of the inf or mation: pos Line number PV Numb er of t he ph ysical v olum e TL Name of the archive PV G Name of the p h ysic al v olume g roup , usual ly st ar ts a t “CLN P”. state status The following values are p ossible for cleaning car tr idges: o___ (“scratch” ) when the volume has onl ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 220

    220 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC This is follo wed by a list of the (valid) log ical volumes st ored on the P V : pos Line number L V Na me of the lo gical volume file- Id Hexadecimal: inte rn al version number in the TVC L VG Name o f the group to whi ch the lo gical volume belong s bl_nr Numbe r of the firs t bl ock of the l ogical vol ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 221

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 221 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9.13 Physical V olume Operations » Link/Unlink V olume Groups This fun ction is no t av ai lable in Obser ve mode. The ass ignments of L V G to one or two (with Dual Sa ve) PV Gs are established, reso lved, or change d. The li st in the upper scree n sectio n contains th e logica l volume groups. L V G ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 222

    222 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Buttons along the bottom bor der OK Link/Un link is star ted. Cancel The win dow is closed without any fur th er activi ty . Actions linked with “OK” 1. B ef ore the P V G is linked, the logi cal volume size is c heck ed: If the L V size is > 2 G B, the capa city of t he PVs alread y assi gned must ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 223

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 223 GXCC Function bar Note for linking If practi cally t he same numb er of dr ives is configu red for the robots in dual save , resto res can be optimized throu gh the follo wing distri bution and cros sed-ov er PVG sequence: Example of l inking L VG1 PVG1 PV G2 L VG2 PVG2 PV G1 Distr ibution to two L VGs with a cro ssed-ov er P ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 224

    224 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Window for enteri ng physical volumes: The for m shows wheth er le vels hav e droppe d below the defined minimum numbe rs for a V o lume Group. In the sa me wa y , a war ning is outpu t for cleaning c ar tri dges when the number of cleanin g cycles left drops b elow the defi ned minimu m. In orde r to add ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 225

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 225 GXCC Function bar Numb er of Cleanin g Cycles Only appl ies to c leaning car tr idges: the numbe r of cleani ng cycles still poss ible f o r the in ser ted ca r tr idge (deci mal value). Flag “Omit Heade r Chec k” Only appl ies to da ta car tr idges: The header of an added v olume i s alwa ys ov erwr itten with a Cen tric ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 226

    226 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC The PL M nor mally uses the car tr idge with the fe west av ailable cycles f or cleanin g to av oid shelves being occupied unnecessar ily by par tia lly used car tri dges. An e xcept ion to this strateg y is ma de only i f multiple cle aning reque sts are han dled simultan eously . It can t ake some time ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 227

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 227 GXCC Function bar Option is not set: If a volume co ntains valid data, an error mes sage is out put and the volum e is not dele ted. Option is set: A “Move” is carr ied ou t automatic ally for volumes contain ing valid data. The volume is then rem ov e d from the da ta maintena nce syste m. Buttons along the bottom bor de ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 228

    228 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.9.16 Physical V olume O perations » Reorganize P h ysical V olumes This fun ction is no t av ai lable in Obser ve mode. It allow s you to manually c op y the c ontents o f a physical volume to o ne or mo re volumes in the sam e physical group or to interr upt su ch a reo rganizatio n. After re organi ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 229

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 229 GXCC Function bar 6.2.9.17 Setup for accounting ma ils This f unction is displayed only if an accounting licens e is inst alled. This menu per mits order s to be con figured w hich automati cally se nd accounti ng data by e-ma il. CA UTION! sendma il must hav e been c onfigured for this func tion to be effective) ( see se cti ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 230

    230 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC Mail A ddress(es) : In this fi eld the user c an enter one or more e-mail ad dresses ( separated by blanks and/ or com mas) to which the accou nting data is to be sen t. L VGs (Logical V ol ume Groups ): A number of radio buttons is dis play ed h ere which e nable the user to define the L V Gs for which a ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 231

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 231 GXCC Function bar Send m ail a t <h h:mm> : This fie ld is used to define the t ime (in hours and minutes) a t which the ac counting data is to be sent by mail. Default: 00:00 on <MM- DD>|<w eek da y>: Here the user can d efine the day on whic h the account ing data i s to be sent by ma il. Format and defaul ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 232

    232 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.1 0 Help The following entr ies can b e selected i n the “Hel p” menu: – Readme / L IESMICH – Direct Help / Direkthilf e – System Messag es – About GXCC... – Re vision Sum mary – Hardware Summar y – Online M anual Centr icStor Us er Guide (i n Obser ve or User mod e) or Ser vice M an ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 233

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 233 GXCC Function bar 6.2.10.5 R evision Summary A text window with infor mation on the insta lled software of al l Centri cStor ISPs is displayed: Syst em Nam e n ame of th e ISP IP Numbe r IP add ress Revision r e v ision lev el o f the software Produ ction Date prod uction da te of the so ftware ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 234

    234 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar GXCC 6.2.10.6 H ard ware Summar y A window with in f or mation on the hardware compone nts installe d in the system is opened: Informat ion on the following ha rdware compone nts is output : ● ISPs – Basic hardware – Graphic adapters – Inter nal RA ID controll ers – ESCON boards – FC boar ds – SC ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 235

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 235 GXCC Function bar 6.2. 10 .7 Online M anu al This fun ction st ar ts a PDF reader and th e most up- to-date version of the manual whi ch is av ailable is di splay ed in the language set. If no manual is available in the la nguage se t this menu item is omitte d. When GXCC connects with a Cent ricStor, an y more up -to-date ve ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 236

    Eine Dokuschab lone v on F rank Flachenec k er b y f .f . 1992 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 237

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 237 7 Global Status 7.1 General The Glo bal Status Monitor ou tputs all im por tant operating data i n graphical form at, and allows you to dis pla y impor tant sy stem data ov e r configurable pe riods. Ther e are sev eral option s f or star tin g “Global Status”: – using t he optional s tar t paramete r -globstat parallel ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 238

    238 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 General Global S tatus When “ Global Sta tus” is s tar ted, a win dow like the one shown b elow will be open ed: The fi gure above is just an example, it can be arranged as you wi sh. Footer The comp onents are, f rom left to r ight: Profile Na me of the profile fil e. A profile file can b e selected with the -prof ile p ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 239

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 239 Global Sta tus Operation of the Global Status Monitor 7.2 Operation of the Global Status M onitor Centr icStor comes wit h a perfor mance mon itor , which co nstantly r ecords and saves compon ent operating da ta at inter v als of a f ew secon ds. Y our ser vice s taff can s pecify in which fil e system an d f or whic h time ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 240

    240 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Function bar of the Global Status Monitor Globa l Status Setting options Pr int to –P r i n t e r Output i s to a P ostScri pt pr inter . After you click on the “Setup” button a window is dis play ed for enter ing the p rin ter setu p: In this form you can make the pri nter def ault setti ngs. After you click on the ? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 241

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 241 Global Sta tus Function bar of the Global Status M onitor 7.3.2 Config “Confi g” allows you to contr ol the appe arance of the d isplay . When you c lick on “Sav e” in the “Config” me nu the position of the GLOB ST A T window on the sc reen and the p osition of th e subwind ow in this window are stored and reused ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 242

    242 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Function bar of the Global Status Monitor Globa l Status – The scr een divisi on can be set in the usual m anner . P er manen t recordin g of operating data is not affected. So me objects are symb olized usin g relatively sm all fields, whic h makes it mo re difficul t to posi tion the mouse. The mod e descr ibed he re is ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 243

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 243 Global Sta tus Function bar of the Global Status M onitor The following data is listed: Emulations Arranged a ccording to ICP : emu/vid n ame Number o f the emulatio n (390 emulati on) / LUN (FC S CSI device). lib . device Ar chive name/addres s of the device. vir tual de vice Sys tem name of the vir tual ta pe device. mounte ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 244

    244 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Function bar of the Global Status Monitor Globa l Status Physical D evices Arranged a ccording to IDP : pds nam e Name of the P DS. scsi device CTL (control ler , t arget, LUN) o f the device . manufacturer Sel f-explanator y device type a nd model Self- e xplan ator y prod . re v . Firmw are stat us speci al state (pds/dev) ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 245

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 245 Global Sta tus Function bar of the Global Status M onitor Cache Data The c ache utiliz ation dat a is displ a yed. 7.3.4 Statistics The following menu optio ns are available: – Histor y of (page 264) – Logical Co mponents (page 267 ) – Physical Components (page 276) – Usage ( Accounting ) 1 (page 293 ) Both re cords o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 246

    246 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Global Status b utton bar Globa l Status 7.4 Global Status b u tton bar F requentl y used fun ctions can be acce ssed im mediately after you hav e cl ic ked on the relev a nt button: Shows a ll three s ubwindo ws Shows o nly right subwin dow (phy sical) Show s onl y centra l su bwindo w (log ical) Shows o nly left sub win. ( ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 247

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 247 Global Sta tus Display of the Global Status Monitor 7.5 D ispla y o f the Global Status Monitor The Glo bal Status M onitor window consists of three ver tically aligned s ubwindows separate d from one an other by gra y lines: The subwi ndows show (fr om left to r ight): – the thro ughput throug h the host interfaces and the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 248

    248 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Display of the Glo bal Statu s Monitor Globa l Status Y ou can set the visible secti on of the s ubwindow by dragging the handles on t he separating lines. The v isible par t o f the subwindow can be moved in the hor izontal di rection for each subwi ndo w sepa ra tely b y means of th e scro ll bar . The bo undarie s between ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 249

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 249 Global Sta tus Display of the Global Status Monitor 7.5.1 P erfo rmance The left-ha nd par t of the window displays the current d ata throughpu t at the external i nter- faces. i.e. the ESCON/ FICON chan nels an d/or FC inte rf aces t o the hos ts and the SCSI or FC co ntrollers for the tap e drives. The d ispla y a rea becom ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 250

    250 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Display of the Glo bal Statu s Monitor Globa l Status The s maller dia gr ams on t he ri ght indicate the data rate s via th e ESCON/FIC ON host connec tions (= 390-CH) or FC hos t connections (=FIBRE-CH ) to the vir tu al drives (top diagrams) and the data rates via th e SCSI or FC co ntrollers to the ph y sical dr ives (bo ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 251

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 251 Global Sta tus Display of the Global Status Monitor 7.5. 2 Virtual Componen ts The mi ddle wind ow section dis pla ys the current s tatuses of the tape emulati ons, the vir tu al devices and the occup ancy of the ta pe volume cac he(s): Emulat ions and vir tual drives Emulatio ns and vi r tual dr ives are display ed in th e l ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 252

    252 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Display of the Glo bal Statu s Monitor Globa l Status Vir tual lib rary ser vers The mi ddle col umn indica tes the op erating status es of the V LM and vi r tual lib rary ser vers (VLSs). If you click the le ft mouse button o n on an obj ect, an info bo x is ou tput conta ining fur th er deta ils. In the ca se of con trol c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 253

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 253 Global Sta tus Display of the Global Status Monitor Additional d isplays for mirr or ed systems ● Red ba r on a cach e column : The ca che is no l onger mi rrored (“o ut of sync”) . Left: Pr imar y c ache Right: Secondary cache ● Y ello w bar on a cache column: Th e cache con cern ed is being r esynchroni zed and is s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 254

    254 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Display of the Glo bal Statu s Monitor Globa l Status 7.5.3 P hysical Components This screen displays the ope rating status of Centr icStor ’ s physical r esources. The se consist of the c ar tr idge dr ives , the physical robot contr ollers and the physical volumes. This par t of the d ispla y is not available in the e v ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 255

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 255 Global Sta tus Display of the Global Status Monitor dr ives , the PDS, the PLS, and the PLM are color -coded in accord ance with the ke y displ a yed a t the rig ht-hand edge of the scree n section. L eft-clicking on an object causes informa tion to be display ed. The ad dress (ho st name or S CSI Controlle r :T arget:LUN) o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 256

    256 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Display of the Glo bal Statu s Monitor Globa l Status Newly adde d v olumes are not available until they ha v e been init ialized by the PLM. The hei ght of the bar re presents the number of volumes. If less volumes ar e a vailable than the min imum values usually displayed f or “ Hard Min imum” and “Soft Minimum”, t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 257

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 257 Global Sta tus History data 7.6 H istory data Histor y da ta is syste m data which has been collec ted ov er a lengthy peri od. For this pur po- se a P e rf or mance Mo nitor constantl y runs in Centri cStor . T he P erform ance Monit or collects and sto res the o perating data o f the compo nents, e.g. performanc e, mount, a ...

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    258 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status 7.6. 1 General 7.6.1.1 R ecor ding analog operating da ta If you move the mouse to a G lobal Statu s displa y and c lick on the righ t button, “Show Statis tics” is off ered. W hen you select this function a wi ndow opens for presenting the chron ological p rogress. A descr ipti on of how to o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 259

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 259 Global Sta tus History data Measu red value Ty p e Call Descr iption Scra tch V olumes of a PV G H Object: P V G column in right- hand par t of screen page 313 Cache Us age H Object: Ca che col umn in ce ntral par t of screen page 265 Usag e of O v er all Cach e H Statis tics » Hist or y of » Cache Usage or Objec t: Column ...

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    260 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status Ph ysic al V olume Groups T ape Statis tics H Object: P V G column in right- hand par t of screen page 313 Ph ysic al V olumes Occ upancy T Stat istics » P h ysical Com ponents » Ph ysi cal V olumes page 279 Reorga nization Status T Statis tics » Physical Components »Reorga- nizati on Status p ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 261

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 261 Global Sta tus History data The ta b le below sh ows the sel ection and c ontrol options for the hist ory data: CentricStor virtual Comp onents CentricStor Virtual Mounts number of Mou nts x x cum ulated Mo untTim e x x CentricStor T otal Mount Tim e (% of Range) virtual drives x x CentricStor Con current VTDs usage (His togr ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 262

    262 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status 7.6.1.3 S electing t he time period The r ecording period or analys is per iod must b e selec ted f or di splays of the typ e H. When you hav e selected o ne of thes e displays a window with an empty page appea rs. The fu nction bar c ontains too ls f or defini ng the time pe riod (da y , time, ra ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 263

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 263 Global Sta tus History data The button ba r below these op tions allows you to sel ect the fun ctions “Exi t” and “Red ra w”: If you hav e selected a long re cording period (e.g. months) a v er y large v olu me of data must b e analyzed a nd transferred. In the wait t ime you are offered an inf o box containing the ? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 264

    264 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status 7.6.2 D ata which ca n be ca lled via the function bar The following menus and submenus c an be ca lled unde r “Statist ics”: ● Histor y of – Cache Usage ( p age 265 ) – Channe l/De vice Perf or man ce (page 266) ● Logica l Componen ts – Logic al Dri v es (page 2 68) – Logi cal V o ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 265 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.2 S tatistics » Hi story of » Cache Usage The his tor y of cache us age is outp ut in accordan ce with th e cache total v alues of th e vir tual compon ents subw indow . ...

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    266 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status 7.6.2.3 S tatistics » Hi story of » Channel/Device Performance Statis tics on the o verall throughput a s they are presente d continuous ly in the lef t-hand bar of the P erform ance subwin dow are output. Y ou can use the four checkbox es at the lower e dge of th e screen to deter mine what dat ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 267 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.4 Statistics » Logical Components The following submenus are av ailable: – Logical Driv es (page 268) – Logical V olumes ( ph ysi cal vie w) (page 271) – Logical V olume s (lo gica l vie w) (page 272) – Logical V olume Gro ups (p age 273) – Jobs o f Logical V ol. G roups (page 2 75 ...

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    268 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status 7.6.2.5 Statistics » Logical Components » Logical Drives Y ou obtain stati stics on the uti lization of the logical dr ives b y selec ting an ICP in th e central sec tion of the Global St atus displ a y and cal ling the obj ect-relate d statistic s function . Displ a ys the oc cupied s tatus of ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 269

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 269 Global Sta tus History data The li st of l ogica l driv es is outpu t in a t e xt windo w after y ou clic k on the “O K” o r “Ref resh ” button: The following informa tion is o utput: VSN VSN of th e volume mounted in a dr ive or “Empty” GRP L V G of a mo unt ed v olume or - C-I D Number of the cache ( =Cache-ID) ...

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    270 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status Rest. Canc . The reading i n of the lo gical volume by the physical volume was canceled ( occurs with a scratch mo unt). Unld. P end. T he logical v olume h as just been ejected f rom a logic al dri v e (emerg ency unload ). There is still n o confir mat ion f or this. FLG Flags: D “ dir ty”: ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 271 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.6 Statistics » Logical Components »Logical V olume s (ph ysical vie w) Y ou use this c all to disp lay the logical volumes which ar e known to the PLM togeth er with their sta tuses. The r ight-ha nd par t of th e window displays all the output d ata in tabular form . L V1st VSN of the firs ...

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    272 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status The colu mns of the di stribution ta b le conta in the assoc iated values of the distr ibution para- meters. The columns containing the number of L Vs t o which the var ious distr ibution para- meter values rel ate and the ir percen tage share i n the total qua ntity ar e also visible. The pi e ch ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 273

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 273 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.8 Statistics » Logical Components » Logical V olume Groups If multi ple logica l volume groups e xist an i nter mediat e menu is the n display ed for sele cting the volume group: This statis tics functi on suppor ts the re fresh function . Inf or mation o n this fun ction and the “ OK” ...

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    274 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status After you cli c k on “OK ” or “Refresh” the f ollowing wi ndow appears: The following data is disp la yed: pos Line n umb er L VG N ame of th e logical volume group PV G1 Name of the first or only ass igned physical v olum e group , or -=== == if empty PV G2 Name of the sec ond assign ed P ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 275 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.9 Statistics » Logical Components » Jobs of Logical V olume Groups If Cen tricStor contains m ore than o ne logical v olume group ( L V G) the requ ired group i s entere d using a n inter mediate menu: This statis tics functi on suppor ts the re fresh function . Inf or mation o n this fun c ...

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    276 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status Mean ing of the columns : The job d ata (result for ... :) is output separat ely for each L V G. pos Serial n um ber L VG N ame of th e logical volume group PV G 1 Name of the first assigned physical v olume group If '=== ===' is s pecified as the name, no P V G is assign ed to the L VG. ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 277 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.11 Statistics » Physical Components » Ph ysical Drives First of all the lib rary in volv ed is qu eried: This statis tics functi on suppor ts the re fresh function . Inf or mation o n this fun ction and the “ OK” and “Canc el” buttons is pr ovided on page 2 76 . The l ibrar y requir ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 278

    278 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status state Current status of the dr ive . P ossible values: unused F ree, no PVG assigned occupied Occupied ; where relevant, the next columns s how the name of the mounted volume, the P V G , and the j ob status. disabled Not us ed, possibly f a ulty unreac hable The PDS canno t be reac hed. dis./unre ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 279

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 279 Global Sta tus History data tim esta mp Time at whi ch the curren t status was entered. If you r ight-cl ic k on a l ibrar y in the r ight-han d par t of the Global S tatus screen a nd selec t “Show Statis tics” you are sh own an ov er view of the dr iv e utiliz ation in graphical an d table f or m. 7.6.2.12 Statistics » ...

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    280 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status An overvi e w in table form i s then shown Mean ing of the columns : pos Line number PV Numb er of t he ph ysical v olum e TL T ape Librar y: N ame of the a rchive PV G Name of the p h ysic al v olume g roup state Status; possi b le values: e___ V o lume rea dy f or invalidation. E___ Th e PV is r ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 281

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 281 Global Sta tus History data s___ The PV must be scanned (used for transf er). _v__ The PV is in “vault” state. _w__ Writ e volume that ca n still be used for sav e operat ions. _wd_ The car tr idge is not yet full; curr ently there is no dire ctor y on the tape. ____ The s tate is un known (used for T ransfer-In). ne xt - ...

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    282 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status Mean ing of the columns : pos Line number PV Numb er of t he ph ysical v olum e TL T ape Librar y: N ame of the a rchive PV G Name of the p h ysic al v olume g roup , usual ly st ar ts a t “CLN P”. state stat us The following values are p ossible for cleaning car tr idges: o___ (“scratch” ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 283

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 283 Global Sta tus History data Mean ing of the columns : pos Line number L V Na me of the lo gical volume file-I d Hexadecimal: a type of version number i n the TVC L VG Name o f the group to whi ch the lo gical volume belong s bl_nr Numbe r of the firs t bl ock of the l ogical volume on the PV size /MB Size sav e re quest at Ti ...

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    284 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status When you s elect all data PVGs the f oll owing ov er view is displ a yed: Mean ing of the columns : pos Line number PV G Name of the ph ysical volume group T ype T yp e of PV group ( stack ed, transfer , vault or c leaning) PVs T otal numb er of physical volumes i n the group scratch Num ber of em ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 285

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 285 Global Sta tus History data av ailable/used cy cles Number of available cleani ng cycles for the ph y sical volumes / number of clean ing cycle s which ar e e x ecuted. TL The t ape li br ary . jobs (wait- work) Numbe r of waiting j obs / number of working j obs. When you s elect onl y one data PV G the set tings for the PVG ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 286

    286 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status PV G stati stics are di splay ed in the first line. The next block contains the parameters for contro lling reorgan ization. soft mi nimum number of e mpty PVs: If the number o f free volumes specif ied here is no t reached, r eorganizati on will take place i n the reorga nization ti me shown fur ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 287

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 287 Global Sta tus History data number of parallel reques ts to VL M (REORG) Number o f “Move Requests” to be pro cessed si multaneous ly which t he PLM s ends to the VLM f or the pur p ose of reorga nizing P Vs. The higher t his value, the more resourc es are reser ved by the reorg anizatio n. canc el tim e f or REORG If a m ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 288

    288 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status time s lice f or PDS -scheduler Time i n seconds for whic h a PDS rem ains ass igned to a PV group. After this tim e has ela psed an active job is ter minated and the drive may be unlo aded. D epending on the loa d situati on it is then assigned to another PV G. The value must be gr eater than or ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 289

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 289 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.14 Statistics » Physical Components » Jobs of Ph ysical V ol. Gr oups A window for selec ting one o r all PVGs is opened : This statis tics functi on suppor ts the re fresh function . Inf or mation o n this fun ction and the “ OK” and “Canc el” buttons is pr ovided on page 2 76 . Th ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 290

    290 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status type T y pe of job ERAS E Invalidate PV header INIT Loa d and initia lize PV INITNEW Add new PV , wr ite header RDIR Rea ds the director y . REST Restore an L V from the physical tape to th e “T ape V olume Cac he” SA VE Sa ve an L V from the “ T ape V ol ume Cache ” to a physical type UNL ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 291 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.2.15 Statistics » Phy sical Components » Reorga nization Status A wind ow f or sele cting one or all PVGs is opene d (naturally the clean P V G s are not offered): This statis tics functi on suppor ts the re fresh function . Inf or mation o n this fun ction and the “ OK” and “Canc el” ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 292

    292 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status Other wise the sta tus of the r eorganiza tion of the ph ysical volume grou p(s) is dis pla yed: Meanin g of the entries: no . Lin e n umber L V Name of the logica l volume state Stat us of the reo rganizatio n: done Completed failed Abor ted; ca n only occ ur with r uns sta r ted manually initia ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 293

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 293 Global Sta tus History data The frequ ent occurre nce of retr ies can also i ndicate tha t the reorgani zation tim es coincide with pea k loads. In th is case the reorganizat ion times should be m ov e d (“Scratch Ti me F rame” field, see the sect ion “Physical V ol ume Gr oups” on page 181 ). More detailed in f or ma ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 294

    294 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status Selection fields Acco unting data request ed f or Here you ca n choose between the following optio ns: all_L V Gs The accou nting data for all L VGs in the s ystem is ou tput. selec ted_L VGs Ini tially all the L VGs known in t he system a re disp la yed as check buttons. Exam ple Y ou can then se ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 295

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 295 Global Sta tus History data Accounting Data When you click on the “OK ” b utton the ac count infor mation is disp la yed in a te xt field (her e with the option “D ata fields to be separated by whit e space”): The da ta is output i n the follo wing form f or each Centr icSto r computer : ● Title “Accoun ting Data ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 296

    296 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History data Globa l Status ● Ta b l e One or more tables with the ac counting dat a depending on whe ther the data for all, f or one o r f or multiple logical v olume gr oups (L V Gs) was requested. Each ta b le consi sts of the f o llowing: –T i t l e all L VGS Display of all L VGs L V G <L VG-name> Di splay of t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 297

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 297 Global Sta tus History data 7.6.3 D ata which can be called vi a objects of the Global S tatus The c hronologic al progress a nd statis tical da ta can be dis pla yed via some Global S tatus object s. T o do this pos ition the m ouse curs or ov e r the obje ct. If dat a is present for the obje ct, this is indicate d b y a blu ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 298

    298 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status 7.7 History dia grams After a statistic has been se lected, firs t of all a wi ndow with an emp ty page ap pears. The windo w is structur ed as f ollo ws: 7.7.1 Fu nction/menu bar 7.7.1.1 F ile The following functi ons are availabl e: – Expo r t – Print – Exit Menu bar To o l b a r Title ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 299

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 299 Global Sta tus History diagrams Export This function causes th e histor y d ata to be rea d in a s specifi ed by the current settin gs . The data is then wr itten to a fi le. Details on this ar e provided in t he section “E xpor ti ng histor y d ata” on page 314 . Prin t Pr ints the ch art or saves the pri nt image to a f ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 300

    300 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status Or ientatio n Y ou use “Or ientation ” to select “ P or trait” for mat, “Lands cape” forma t or “Auto” (automa tic adju stment ). P aper Here you ca n select “A4” or “l etter”. Mode Setting opti ons: “color” or “gra yscale ” Buttons a long the l ower bor d er Pr ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 301

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 301 Global Sta tus History diagrams 7.7.1.3 T ime A pull -down menu with the values 0 - 23 is open ed in whic h you can define the star t ti me for a disp la y area. After you hav e click ed on th e requir ed time, the win dow is closed and th e v alue se lected i s taken ov e r . 7.7.1. 4 Range A pull -down menu is open ed in wh ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 302

    302 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status 7.7.1.7 P rofile Profile enables the cu rrent settings, e.g. for the anal ysis per iod, to be s tored and r eused the next time the program is ca lled. Speci fically th is means : – Managin g profil es (submenu: A dd/Selec t Profile) – Impor t ing option s from a profi le file (s ubmenu: A ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 303

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 303 Global Sta tus History diagrams 7.7.3 Status bar The st atus bar a t the bottom of the s creen displ a y s (from left to r ight) the f ollowing inform a- tio n: remote _time Time stam p of the last hist or y call on the con nected Cen tricSt or protoc ol T y pe of prot ocol used: get_ log or r ead_lo g Protocol version V er s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 304

    304 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status Host ad apters For each host a dapter a col umn showing t he current thr oughput for read and write op era- tions of the hos t - arranged a ccording to ICP - is displayed in the uppe r half of the left-ha nd subw indow . As des crib ed above, y ou can have the chr onologica l progress o f thes ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 305

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 305 Global Sta tus History diagrams 7.7.5 D ia grams f or vir tual component s (central part of the screen) 7.7.5. 1 I CP emulations A dis tinction must b e made her e between whet her the r eadlog or get log pr otocol is being used on the conne cted Centr icStor . This depends o n the Centr icStor version currently i n- stall ed ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 306

    306 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status Outputs f or CentricStor V3.1D or higher (get_log pr otocol) The following diagrams are offered depe nding on the m ode selected (see the section “M o- de” on page 301 ): ● Mount state dia gram The mounted state is disp la yed f o r each e mulation/PDSs in the se lected pe riod. T his sh ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 307

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 307 Global Sta tus History diagrams ● Mount summar y di agr am The number of emula tions/PDS s in the mount ed state at any given time is shown here. This sh ows how many tapes were unmounted a t a par ticu lar time: ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 308

    308 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status Outputs f or CentricStor < V3.1D (read_ log protocol) If more th an 16 emulation s are define d, a slid er is dis pla yed in the button ba r . Y ou can use this to sel ect which group of 16 emulation s is to be d isplay e d. The pres entation period i s set per mane ntly to one h our . The ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 309

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 309 Global Sta tus History diagrams 7.7.5.2 C ache Usage The p rogress of the cache usage c an be displ a yed f or ea ch indivi dual cach e file s ystem or for all cach es togethe r . T o do thi s, right-c lick on the relev ant cac he colum n in the cent ral secti on and selec t “Show Statistic s” in the c onte xt menu. A fte ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 310

    310 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status Meaning of the statuses free Not used. T his area can be us ed immediate ly for saving volume images. clean Cont ains valid volume image s. The v olumes ar e unchange d compared to their images s av e d on tape (ei ther not yet wr itten o r already s a ved). If anoth er mount takes place for a ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 311 Global Sta tus History diagrams Example fo r V3.1D ...

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    312 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status Example fo r < V3.1D The pres entation period i s set per mane ntly to one h our . Each l ine pair shows th e status o f the PDS (up per line) and that of the relev a nt ph ysical dr ive (low er line ). ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 313

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 313 Global Sta tus History diagrams 7.7.6.2 T ape pool values When you cl ic k on a c olumn in the righ t-hand par t of the scr een with the r ight mouse button and sel ect “Show Stati stics” a win dow containin g the tape p ool v alu es appears. Example The pr esentation shows the p rogress for the physical volumes u sed. St ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 314

    314 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status 7.7.7 E xporting histor y data This function causes th e histor y d ata to be rea d in a s specifi ed by the current settin gs . The data is then wr itten to a file. This c an inv olv e consi derab ly mor e data than would b e needed to draw the diagram cur rently s elected ( see the example b ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 315

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 315 Global Sta tus History diagrams Example Scope of output: It is pos sible that more d ata fields are wr itten to the file than woul d be shown on the screen, namely all data fi elds which wer e read in for the presenta tion selecte d (i.e. the raw data sup- plied a t the interface). Example: If the p resentation mo de ave rage ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 316

    316 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status 7.7.8 C ommand line tool f or g enerating the history data The sh ell scr ipt get_hi st.sh was created to per mit the histor y data of a Cent ricStor s ystem to be m ade av ailable in a text f or mat (e.g. for the sp readsheet pr ogram Excel). This script i s contained in the /usr/apc/bin dire ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 317

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 317 Global Sta tus History diagrams All values whic h can be sele cted in the graphi cal call of the histor y function can al so be spe- cifie d as addition al parameters. The -hd parameter , which is describ ed fur the r below , is also accepted . Which parameters can or mu st be s pecified differs accor ding to th e histor y ty ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 318

    318 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status or wild card term > | | | | | | -da < start date | opt. | op t. | opt. | opt. | opt. | o pt. (Y YYY-MM -DD)> | | | | | | -dv < device name a s foun d| | | | x | | in globs tat(*2) or | | | | | | wi ld car d term> | | | | | | -hd < histor y direc tory, | opt. | op t. | opt. | ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 319

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 319 Global Sta tus History diagrams Presentati on of the data in Excel In order to per mit the histor y data to be presented on a graphical interface of a type s imilar to Centr icStor, an Excel mac ro has been created whi ch is sup plied with the GXCC pr oduct. This macro is only inten ded as an e xample and in no wa y provides ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 320

    320 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status Example 1. Cr eate a fil e get_hist.sh total -da 20 06-03-29 -ho 0 -pt 6h >YIN. total2.txt 2. T ransfer file 3. Open Ex cel mac ro: ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 321 Global Sta tus History diagrams 4. Open h isto ry file: ...

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    322 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 History diagrams Globa l Status 5. Co nfirm you wish to open i t: ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 323

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 323 Global Sta tus History diagrams Here, by wa y of c ompari son, is the GX CC presentation : Note the outpu t mode (min ,max,av erage) select ed in GXCC and the spreadshe et of the same n ame sele cted i n EXCEL. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 324

    Eine Dokuschab lone v on F rank Flachenec k er b y f .f . 1992 ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 325 8X T C C 8.1 General While GX CC regards a Centr icStor system as a whole, XTCC is limite d to one ISP toget her with the connecte d periph erals. Y ou star t XT CC f or an IS P by positionin g the mous e pointer in GXCC over the symb ol of the I SP and r ight-clicking t o select the “Show Details (X TCC)” option f rom th ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 326

    326 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 General XTCC Centr icStor rec ognizes various ISP types. ICP Integrated Channel Processo r An ICP has a per manent c onnection to one or mor e BS200 0/OSD , z/OS o r OS/390 h osts via E SCON/FICON ada pters or to an open s ystems hos t via an FC contr oller operatin g as a host co nnection. Host adap ters and vir t ual devic ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 327

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 327 XTCC General In th e case of an I CP_IDP co mbination , the disp la y is s omewhat different: PDSs an d em ulat io ns/v ir tual de vices ar e loc ated on the same l e vel i n the diag ra m. Th e PDSs a re connected to the assoc iated device contr oller , an d the emulation s are con nected to the as sociated h ost adapter(s ) ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 328

    328 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Margins of th e main XTCC window XTCC 8.2 Margins of the main XTCC window 8.2.1 Title bar Local( )-Co nfig if XTC C is ru nning on the ISP u nder consi deration. Remot e(<IP addr. o f ISP> <host n ame of ISP>) -config “<com ment from unit list>” if XTC C is run ning on an other ISP i n the Centr icStor ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 329

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 329 XTCC Margins of the main XTCC window SER V XTCC mode (OB SV=Obse rve , SER V=Service, USER =User , SIMU=Si mulation). 80% Current w indow size setting (in th e e xample, 80%). A utosc an Green = star ted Y ellow = active Red flashi ng = sto pped / tempo rarily disabled White =b locked (SIMU mode) S 5s Autoscan operatin g mode ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 330

    330 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3 Function bar Subfunc tions: ● File – Sele ct ( page 331 ) – Save ( page 331 ) – Show ( pag e 331 ) – Pri nt ( page 332 ) – Exit ( page 334 ) ● Unit – Sele ct ( page 335 ) ● Options – Settings ( page 336 ) – T oggle Size ( page 337 ) – T oggle Aspect ( p age 337 ) – Show Curre ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 331

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 331 XTCC Function bar 8.3. 1 File 8.3.1. 1 Select Selec ts a configu ration file s a ved pre viously with “Save” (see below): The wi ndow contains the field for enter ing the fi le name plus the following functio n k eys: OK Checks whether the sp ecified file is a v alid XTCC co nfiguration file and, if so , its conten ts are ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 332

    332 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.1. 4 Print Unix Pla tf orm Sav es o r prin ts the con figuration currently display ed in P ostS cript f or mat: This op ens a wind ow containing the f ollowing fi elds and buttons: Pr int to Sp ecifies the target for the prin tout. Comm and List box used to specify the prin ter . In the case of UNIX s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 333

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 333 XTCC Function bar File Selec tion with inp ut field. List box used to specify the name under whi ch the P ost Script fi le is to be sav ed. Depending on the col or selection made under “Mode”, t his field i s preset wi th the file name <pat h>/outcolor.p s or <path> /outgray.ps , where <path> is set t o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 334

    334 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.1. 5 Exit Shuts down XTCC , saving the cur rent settin gs to the p rofile file in the proc ess. The setti ngs are not sav ed if XT CC is e xited u sing the following fun ctions: – System fun ction – Window Mana ger funct ion Click on the Cen tricSt or icon at the top lef t and in the p ull-down me ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 335

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 335 XTCC Function bar 8.3.2 U nit 8.3.2. 1 Select This fun ction is disa b led if XTCC is star ted from GXCC. Other wise, if XTCC was star ted dir ectly , the “XTCC U nit Selec t” window is op ened. Example The op eration and fun ctions of Uni t Select are descr ibed in the secti on “Select” on page 147 . Error s dur ing ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 336

    336 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.3 Options 8.3.3. 1 Set tings Opens a submenu con taining th e f ollowing func tions: Allows you to set the f ollowing optio ns: Size [%] Y ou can vary the scale of the graphic displ a y from 20 % to 120% in 5% steps. If you set a value less than 80%, a ll the object fun ctions will b e deactivated and ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 337

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 337 XTCC Function bar For I nfo b ox: Move P ointe r T he infos are di splay ed by positi oning the m ouse curs or . Click Button The inf os are displayed b y clicking on the left mouse button. The descr iptio ns in the manua l generall y relate to this mode. Help in: Englis h He lp te xts i n English. German Help te xts in Germa ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 338

    338 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.4 A utoscan Each Autoscan cycle consis ts of a data transfer phase, a displ a y phase, and the Autoscan delay . The A utoscan del a y is the inte r v al between the end of th e display phase and th e beginni ng of the sub sequent da ta transf er phas e. The col or of the “Autoscan ” te xt in the s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 339

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 339 XTCC Function bar 8.3.4. 3 Settings Opens a submenu con taining th e f ollowing set ting optio ns and buttons: A utoscan Dela y [s] This sc ale allows you to det ermi ne the inte rval current ly set. If “Manual Adju sting” is selec ted, this value ca n be chang ed. Mode Self Ad justing (S) The Autoscan del a y is dete rmi ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 340

    340 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC OK Confir ms the s ettings and closes the menu. Hel p Opens a window containing the XTCC help file. Cancel Cancels the settings a nd closes the menu. 8.3.4.4 S can Now T ri ggers an ad ditional, im mediate s can cycle i n the ev e nt of an Autoscan pr ocess bein g stopped manually or a lengthy A utoscan d ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 341

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 341 XTCC Function bar 8.3.5 T ools The following functi ons are availabl e: – XTCC Communi cations – Get Remo te/Expand Local Fi le – Show Remote Fi le – Compare Local Files – XTCC Update /Re v er t 8.3.5.1 XT CC Communications Opens a window conta ining a list b o x and an in put field: The list box contains th e IDs o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 342

    342 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC If messag es are present , then the number of messages is disp lay ed by means of the yellow indica tor Msg:<n> in the XTC C status b ar . Y ellow letter symbols are also visible in t he config uration display . Meaning of the bu ttons Send Sends a messag e entered in the “Broadc ast Messa ge” w ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 343

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 343 XTCC Function bar 8. 3.5. 4 Com pa re Loc al Fil es Star ts a graphical too l which enables two local te xt files to be compared. The two files are displ a yed in s ynchroni zed te xt windows. Dif f e rences ar e marked in color , and the numb er of differences i s entered in the st atus line a t the bottom rig ht. By sel ect ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 344

    344 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.6 Pr ofile The te rm “profile” e ncompas ses all user-speci fic sett ings chose n under “O ptions” an d “Autoscan”. T hese se ttings are s tored in a user-spec ific subdi rector y . When th e main menu f unctions –U n i t ➟ Select –F i l e ➟ Select –F i l e ➟ Exit – Options ? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 345

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 345 XTCC Function bar If you requi re indivi dual pro file sett ings, y ou shou ld define separate pr ofile settings. Th e profil e data is saved in a matri x f or mat: A direc tor y is set up for each pro file name, includ ing “def ault” . Profile data is s tored in thi s director y for each un it under the name <system _ ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 346

    346 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.6. 1 Sele ct Allows you to create and sele ct user-spe cific sub director ies in th e temporar y XTCC direc tor y . All option s ettings are then stored in unit-spe cific fi les in these subdir ector ies. The n ame of th e subdi rector y is f or med from t he profi le name an d the extension .prf . T ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 347

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 347 XTCC Function bar Notes on operating – Y ou use the two scrol l bars for posit ioning in the list bo x. – Double-clicking on a n entr y with th e left mouse button transfers this to the entr y field. – Simultane ously press ing the Ctrl +o ke ys enables the conte nt of the lis t bo x to be sor ted in asc ending or de sc ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 348

    348 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.7 H elp The ap pearance of the submenu dep ends on th e language selected i n “Settings ” (see page 336 ): 8.3.7. 1 R EADME / LIESMIC H This fun ction is used to open the file v ie wer with the help file in acc ordance with the languag e setting , thus here to “Help”: Informat ion on using the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 349

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 349 XTCC Function bar 8.3.7.4 A bout XTCC... The version of X TCC can als o be seen at the bottom r ight of the configu ration overvi e w win do w . Meaning of the bu ttons OK The win dow is closed. File info Opens a text window in which inform ation on the X TCC files th at e xist is outp ut: The version number s are dis pla yed ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 350

    350 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Func ti on bar XTCC 8.3.7.5 C entricStor Us er Guide One of the menu functio ns – Centr icSt or User Guid e (complet e) – Centr icSt or User Guid e (GUI P ar t) is off ered if – XTCC is operated in Us er or Obser v e mod e, – the mo nitored sy stem is of th e type “C entricStor ” and – a PDF documen tation fil ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 351

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 351 XTCC Function bar 8.3.7. 6 C entricStor S ervice M anual One of the menu functio ns – Centr icStor S erv ice Manual ( complete) – Centr icStor S erv ice Manual ( GUI P ar t) is off ered if – XTCC is o perated in Ser vice or Simu mode, – the moni tored syst em is of t he type “Cent ricSto r” and – a PDF d ocument ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 352

    352 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Elements of the XTCC windo w XTCC 8.4 Elements of the XTCC windo w 8.4.1 D isplay Each XTCC wi ndow displays an ISP of the Centr icStor system, tog ether with the conne cted per ipherals. The ISP is repre sented by a beige field at the c enter of th e window: The s mall co lored box es around the edge repr esent the periph e ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 353

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 353 XTCC Elements of the XTCC window The op erating status of an elemen t is indi cated by the colo r of the ass ociated box, where the following co lor key applies : Green: Nor mal Pink: Malfuncti oning, off line or not rea dy Y ellow: Status unclear , some s ubcomponents are malfun ctioning Red: Conf iguration error ; the comp ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 354

    354 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Elements of the XTCC windo w XTCC 8.4. 2 Unexp ected err ors In the ev ent o f inter nal errors such as th ose that occur owing to missing ( mandator y) variables of the InfoBroker , X TCC opens ( if possible) a win dow with the titl e: “ XTCC Prob lem Info ”. This wi ndow contains the error mes sage and buttons f or fur ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 355

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 355 XTCC Elements of the XTCC window The Autoscan proc ess is s topped for the duration of this wait time. Suc h a window can - if absolu tely neces sar y - be c losed by clicking o n the relev ant Wind ow-Manager- specific button at the top rig ht or left of the window title ba r . The wait time for restar ting the Autoscan is n ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 356

    356 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Elements of the XTCC windo w XTCC 8.4.5 G r oup display When Ce ntricS tor compone nts are d ispla yed, there may be mor e configuratio n elements (e.g. vir tu al drives) tha n can be d ispla yed in a si ngle window . At the same tim e, y ou may often want to monitor op erations at multipl e Centr icStor ISPs simultaneous ly ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 357

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 357 XTCC Elements of the XTCC window The st atus line is contained at the botto m edge of th e Groups wi ndow: A utos can green = r elease d ye ll ow = ac tive flashi ng red= st opped / temp orarily di scontinued white = lock ed (S imu mode) S Autoscan o perating mode( S = Automatic se tting, M = Manual se tting) 5s A utos can in ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 358

    358 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Elements of the XTCC windo w XTCC Color codes in the group displa y The ob ject color s used in t he group displ a y are ver y simila r to those i n the configu ration displa y: SYS HA Ct Emu/ Manager / Server Ta r g e t / V- D r i v e RAID T urquoi se OK AC TI V E OK Running and attached Read/wr ite, read only , bus y OK Gr ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 359

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 359 XTCC Elements of the XTCC window Explanati on 1 F ile sys tem full : red flas hing tool symbol i n the c onfiguratio n ov er view . Flas hing symbo l for system mess ages in the GXCC window . 2 F ile syst em 95% fu ll: blac k flashi ng tool sy mbol in the configurat ion ov er view . 3 S NMP: SNMP manager has received an SNMP ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 360

    360 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 File viewer XTCC 8.5 F ile vie wer XTCC provid es a file vi e wer , complete with scroll bars and s earch functi ons, f or displaying help texts and the data ret ur ned by v ari ous “Show” func tions. This file viewer suppor ts b oth text and binar y files. T ext files or hexadecima l dumps up to 100 Mbytes in size can b ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 361

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 361 XTCC Fi le viewer 8.5. 3 File 8.5.3.1 Open (T ext)/Open (Hex ) This function is only av ailable in User and Ser vi ce mode. Opens a file sele ction bo x. Once you have made your se lection, the file viewer is then opened i n pure text mode (Ope n (T ext)) or in combin ed hexadecimal/ te xt mode ( Open (Hex)). The d ispla y mo ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 362

    362 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 File viewer XTCC 8.5.4 AutoUpdate This fun ction is of f ered only when called b y spe cific GXCC/XTCC functions. The fil e displ a yed is reread cy clically . If en trie s hav e been a dded, these a re shown at t he end of the text window and highl ighted by a light er background. 8.5.4. 1 Star t Only when AutoUpdate is s t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 363

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 363 XTCC Fi le viewer 8.5.6 Highlight Selec ting “Down” or “Up” with the left mous e button or pressi ng the assoc iated keyboard shor tcut enables you to highli ght all occurrenc es of the str ing spe cified in “Sear ch Stri ng” in color. The number of occurren ces is output in “Highli ghted”, and the curs or is ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 364

    364 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 File viewer XTCC Highli ghted Dependin g on the sear ch procedure, this field outputs the number of co lor-highlig hted hits for the str ing bein g searched for . T his counter also takes multipl e hits into account (depend ing on the search method and str ing). The sea rch is end ed when the color o f the text f or this fie ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 365

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 365 XTCC Fi le viewer 8.5.8 Mode 8.5.8.1 1 st Line -> Ruler/Se lection -> Ruler Displ a y s the firs t line or the selecte d line in the non-sc rolling ar ea of the w indow . This fun ction ca n be used when viewing long tables in order to k eep the t itle bar vi sible at all ti mes . Some ap plications predefine t he title ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 366

    366 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 File viewer XTCC 8.5.8.5 T ab S top Inter v al In text files with t abulators the tab stop inter v al can change. The “d ef a ult” gen erates an inter val of 8 ch aracters wi th behavior typi cal for a text editor . For the ot her values in tervals from 1 .... 20 can be selected with behavior typic al for a te xt edit or ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 367

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 367 XTCC ISP 8.6 ISP 8.6.1 Object information on the ISP The obj ect represent ing the entire IS P is hidden be hind the text “Centr icStor” i n the center of the X TCC window . If requ ired two addi tional symbol s are dis pla yed: – A yellow flashing SNMP symbo l indicates th at SNMP da ta is pres ent. – A yellow or red ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 368

    368 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 ISP XTCC Hardwa re T ype Primerg y PC model. Prod. Serial No . Se rial numb er of the P rimergy Graphics Board T y pe of graphics boar d Fir mware Autoload Indication of wh ether or not the fir mware autolo ad function i s activated. InfoBroker Lev e l Revision lev el of th e Inf oBroker . RAM Memor y configu ration. The u s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 369

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 369 XTCC ISP 8.6.2.1 S how Revision Histor y This function is used to dis pla y a lo g showing all the software updates of the ISP : ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 370

    370 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 ISP XTCC 8.6.2.2 V ersion Consiste ncy Check This function is offered only if the cons istency c heck mechanism is av ailable on t he moni- tored s ystem and i nconsistenc ies have been detected i n the currentl y insta lled software version. Thi s case can, for e xample, occur in the ev ent of subsequent integration of de v ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 371

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 371 XTCC ISP 8.6.2.3 S how Diff. Curr ./Prev . V e rs ion This function is o ff e red only if the c onsisten cy check mechanism is av ailable on the sys tem being o bser ved. It is us ed to show the diff erence be tween the cur rent and the pre vious versions u sing the graphical Diff tool. The two v ersio ns are disp la yed in s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 372

    372 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 ISP XTCC 8.6.2. 4 S how Node Elemen t Descriptors This fun ction is available only f or IC Ps with an ES CON channel adapter . It disp la ys the n ode eleme nt descr iptors of t he ESCON channel adapters and the under- lying vir t ual device s: Show/View function s open wi ndows that are equ ipped with scroll bar s and sear ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 373

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 373 XTCC ISP 8.6.2.5 S how Configuration Data Outputs a confi guration disp lay in table f or m: F or space reasons th e e xample has been sho r tened. The c onfiguratio n data shows: – information about the IS P – a list of emulations wi th emulation name, HSI and d e vi ce name ( f or ICPs) or a list of PDSs for an IDP . ? ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 374

    374 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 ISP XTCC The S CSI devices are re presented in the nor ma l wa y as c (=contro ller) <cc>t (=ta rget ) <tt>l (=L un) <ll> , wher e cc , tt , ll are shown as decima l numbers. cc specifies the control ler number in the ISP . tt target number in the form of a decim al number . With c omponents c onnected via ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 375

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 375 XTCC ISP 8.6. 2.6 Sho w Syst em Log Displa ys syste m messag es from t he fil e klog.msg : 8.6.2.7 S how SNMP Data This function is only availabl e if a flashing y ellow “SNMP ” symbol i ndicates tha t one or mo re SNM P data blocks are av ailable. It opens a s ubmenu in whi ch you can selec t a block f o r display . This ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 376

    376 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Internal objects of t he ISP XTCC 8.7 Internal ob ject s of the ISP 8.7.1 R epresentati on of internal objects Inter nal ob jects are those th at do not communi cate direct ly with the extern al data path an d are ar ranged physically wi thin the sys tem. If th e bloc k for the int er nal obje cts is not in the foreground, t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 377

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 377 XTCC Intern al objects o f the ISP 8.7.1.2 C D-ROM The sta tus of a CD- R OM driv e is indi cate d by the f ollo wing col ors: T urquoi se: R ead/write, re ad, busy Pink: Online, offli ne Y ellow: Status unknown If the m ouse poin ter is posi tioned over such an obje ct, its co lor chan ges to blue, indicat ing that it is sel ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 378

    378 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Internal objects of t he ISP XTCC 8.7.1.4 S CSI controller This i s repr esented e xact ly as d escrib ed in t he section “ Object in f or mation on SCSI contr ollers” on p age 421 . 8.7.1.5 R AID controller A RAID cont rol ler i s repres ented b y a b loc k in whic h the de vice n umber (R AI D #0, RAID #1 etc.), contro ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 379

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 379 XTCC ESCON/FICON host adapter 8.8 ESCON/FICON host adap ter 8.8.1 Object info rmation fo r the ESCON/FICON host adapter Each h ost adapte r is represente d by a b lock at the top o f the ICP . Within th e bl ock, the host adapter number (HA # 0, HA #1, etc.) and type (ESCON, FICO N, FC) are di splay ed. The status of the hos ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 380

    380 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 ESCON/FICON host adapter XTCC Chann el Node s List of h ost cha nnels used to es tablish a logic al path. Ea ch line correspo nds to one ESCON chan nel. The list shows the node ID of the ES CON por t in the host. The hexadecimal number separated by a blank r epresents t he por t number of the hos t channel o n the ESCO N Dir ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 381

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 381 XTCC ESCON/FICON host adapter 8.8.2 ESCON/FICON host adapt er functions The following functi ons are availabl e: – Show Node ID Details – Show Node Element Desc riptor s – Show Dump (p rkdump ) 8.8.2.1 Show Node ID De tails Display of the node ele ment descr iptors of an ESCON/FICON ho st adapter, of the ESC ON/ FICON D ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 382

    382 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 ESCON/FICON host adapter XTCC 8.8.2. 2 S how Node Elemen t Descriptors Displ a y of the node e lement descr ipto rs of an ESCON/FIC ON host ad apter and th e under- lying vir t ual device s. Show/View function s open wi ndows that are equ ipped with scroll bar s and sear ch function s. F or inf or mation on the tools t hat c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 383

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 383 XTCC ESCON/FICON host adapter 8.8.2.3 Show Dump (prkdump) Displ a y of the host a dapter dr iver dump: T o analyze th is dump, y ou wil l need detail ed knowledge o f the system . i ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 384

    384 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Emulations of dr ives connected to OS/390 host adapter s XTCC 8.9 Emulations of drives connected to OS/390 host adapter s 8.9.1 I nform ation on emulations The E SCON channel a dapter onl y has emulations of dri v es of the types IBM-34 90E and Fuji tsu F6473K. In the Fuji tsu-Sieme ns Computer s product lists, 3490-E d e v ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 385

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 385 XTCC Emulations of drives connected to OS/390 host adapters The i nf or mation box contai ns the following informa tion: Emulatio n N ame of the e mulation. Vir tual Drive Inter na l Centri cStor name f o r the log ical dri v e. Mnem onic N ame of the l ogical d rive in the ho st (if defin ed). CIuster, Unit ESCON address of ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 386

    386 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Emulations of dr ives connected to OS/390 host adapter s XTCC 8.9.2. 1 S how Error/T ra nsfer Statisti cs Displ a y of the erro r and statis tical data transf erred to the host: ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 387

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 387 XTCC Emulations of drives connected to OS/390 host adapters 8.9.2. 2 Sh ow Short T race Displ a y s general in f o rm ation at the be ginning o f the star t t race file: This is f ollowed by the trace on al l comman ds sent by the hos t together wi th their ter mi- nation. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 388

    388 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Emulations of dr ives connected to OS/390 host adapter s XTCC 8.9.2. 3 Sh ow P ath T ra ce Displays the path sequence o f I/Os: ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 389

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 389 XTCC Emulations of drives connected to OS/390 host adapters 8.9.2. 4 S how Error Log Displ a y s a text window containi ng the erro r log of the v ir tual device or emulat ion. Logic al device er ror mess ages m a y be i ssued as a resu lt of : – operating er rors (read command for empty drive, write com mand for write-pr o ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 390

    390 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Emulations of dr ives connected to OS/390 host adapter s XTCC 8.9.2.5 Show Memory Log Displa ys the pro cess log f or the emul ati on wh ich i s pres ent in mem ory: This function makes it possible to di splay a continuous m emor y trace for the emulati on (logg ing). This logging is indepen dent of t he trace set ma nually ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 391

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 391 XTCC Virt ual 3490 d rives 8.10 Vir tual 3490 drives 8.10.1 Object inf ormation and error messa ges fo r virtual 3490 drive s Each e mulation is assign ed its own vi r tual dr ive. In this obj ect, the err or mess ages and behavior of a real dr iv e are simulated as r equired . Ev en the d isplay units on real 34 90 dr iv es ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 392

    392 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Vir tual 3490 d rives XTCC The di splay can contai n one of the f o llowing me ssages: When a logical volume i s loaded, the third line specifies which cac he contains the associ ate d dat a. 8.10.1.1 Err or conditions indic ated on the display Display 0 Display 1 Des cription CU RE AD Y -- CU ready but path not yet connect ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 393

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 393 XTCC Virt ual 3490 d rives 8.10.1.2 Ob ject information The extended infor mation c ontains the following dat a: Dr ive Status ( Empty , writ e-protecte d); Specifi es whether a car tr idge is in ser ted and whether data can b e written to this car tri dge. Check Condi tion Date an d descr iption o f the last Check Condition ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 394

    394 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Vir tual 3490 d rives XTCC The following table lists the SIMs/MI Ms used by the emula tion and g ives the probable cause . 8.10.2 Vir tual drive functions The following functi ons are availabl e: – Sho w SCSI S ense – Show Medium Inf o (MIM) – Show Ser vice Info (SIM) – Unload an d Unmount When inter preting the info ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 395

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 395 XTCC Virt ual 3490 d rives 8.10 .2.1 Show SCSI Se nse The device emulati on of Centr icStor works in terna lly as a prot ocol conver ter from the chann el to the S CSI proto col and vice v ersa. I n a Centri cStor ICP t he SCSI interface is only emulated. In the real sy stem the device emulati on works w ith the interfaces of ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 396

    396 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Vir tual 3490 d rives XTCC 8.10.2.2 Sh ow Medium Info (MIM) An info bo x appe ars if no MIM log exists: Displa ys the l atest Medi a Inf ormation Me ssage s in a te xt window . ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 397

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 397 XTCC Virt ual 3490 d rives 8.10.2.3 S how Service Info (SIM) Displ a y s the lat est Ser vic e Inf or mation Messages i n a text window . The MI M and SIM cod es of the v ir tual devices are descri bed in the se ctio n “Obj ect inf or- mation” on page 3 93 . 8.10.2.4 Unload and Unmount This function is used to unl oad and ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 398

    398 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 FC-SCSI host adap ter XTCC 8.11 F C-SCSI host adapter 8.11.1 Object information on FC-SCSI host adapter s Each h ost adapte r is represente d by a b lock at the top o f the ICP . Within th e bl ock, the host adapter number (HA # 0, HA #1, etc.) and type (ESCON, FICO N, FC) are di splay ed. The status of the hos t adapter is ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 399

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 399 XTCC Emulations of SCSI drives (VTD) A dash ed line indi cates th at the host adapter and/o r emulation are not rea dy . If no line is displ a yed, no LUN was found. 8.11.2 FC-SCSI host adapter functions 8.11.2.1 Perf orm Link Down/Up Sequenc e For appro x. 30 seco nds the status “Link Down” is generated, thus activating ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 400

    400 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Emulations of SCS I drives (VTD) XTCC The figur e below shows the c haracteris tics of an emul ation as dis play ed i n XTCC. The i nf or mation bo x displays: Vir tual T ape Device Internal SINIX nam e f or the device. Logica l Unit Num ber LUN on t he FC-SCSI interface. Control ler Serial number on the F C-SCS I controller ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 401

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 401 XTCC Emulations of SCSI drives (VTD) 8.12.2 Functions for individual VTD em ulations The following functi on is av ailable: – Sho w T r ace 8.12.2.1 S how T race Displ a y s the emulat ion trace in a te xt window . The example above shows the trace entr ies cre ated when th e VTD is star ted. Du ring operatio n, the trace p ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 402

    402 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Vir tual SCS I drives XTCC 8.13 Vir tual SCSI drives 8.13.1 Object information on virtual tape dri ves Dr ives of this type are design ated as VD rives. In co ntrast to real dr ives, an associated SCSI control ler exists only when the logical v olume is lo cated on th e local dis k. This is the case with a VTC, f or example. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 403

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 403 XTCC Virtual SC SI drives The following is displayed: Inquir y data V endor ID , pr oduct ID , pro duct revision lev el, dr iv e ser ial number . V end or ID and pro duct ID can b e select ed dur ing configu ration. Dr ive Status Onli ne, Offline, Read/ Wri te Check Condi tion: Date and de signation of the erro r conditio n t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 404

    404 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Vir tual SCS I drives XTCC 8.13.2 Vir tual generic drive functions Depen ding on the emul ation, the f o llowing funct ions are available: 8.13 .2.1 Show SCSI Se nse Sho ws the accum ulat ed SC SI sens e b yte s of th e virtual driv e. 8.13.2.2 Sh ow Medium Info (MIM) Shows the “ Media Infor mation M essages” . 8.13.2.3 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 405

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 405 XTCC VLS (Vir tual Library Ser vice) 8.14 VLS (Virtual Library Service) 8.14.1 Object information on V LSs A VLS (Vir tual Li brar y Ser ver) is the emul ation of an ar chive system for magneti c tapes. Centr icStor can emula te various type s of arc hive systems. VLSs of the type V ACS , VLMF o r VD AS ser ve a number of c l ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 406

    406 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 VLS (Vir tual Library S ervice) XTCC ● The f ollo wi ng inf ormatio n is al so o utput f or VLSs of the ty pe VJ UK: V en dor ID V en dor identifi er Product ID Product i dentifier Ser ial No Ser ial number Slots Number of sl ots Controller Numbe r of the control ler used Lun S CSI Lun of the jukebox Mode Operatin g status ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 407

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 407 XTCC VMD (Virtual Mount Daemon) 8.15 VMD (Vir tual Mount Daemon) 8.15.1 Object information on the Vir tual Mount Daemon (VMD) The VMD , also known as the mount s erver , controls the mo unting and unm ounting of vir tual volumes in the vir tual dr ive(s) on beh alf of the V LM. Each IC P has its own VMD . The VMD and the driv ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 408

    408 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 VLM (Vir tual L ibrary Manager) XTCC 8.16 VLM (Virtual Library Manager) 8.16.1 Object inf ormation for t he VLM Vir tual lib raries are emul ated and mapped to ph ysic al librar ies in a proc ess p air cons isting of a VLM (Vir tua l Librar y Man ager) and a PLM (Physical Librar y Manag er). In XTC C , the VLM and PLM a re r ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 409

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 409 XTCC VLM (Virtual Library Manager) ● Whether the cache file sys tem is u sed for “floating” v olumes or whether volume groups are per manen tly assig ned to it (“ e x clusive”). ● The numbe r of “misp laced” volumes whi ch may be presen t. These ar e logical volum es which are current ly not l ocated in the ca ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 410

    410 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 VLM (Vir tual L ibrary Manager) XTCC 8.16.2.2 Set HAL T Mode/ Set R UN Mode This fun ction is no t av ai lable in Obser ve mode. In HAL T mode, the V LM acce pts no mount j obs for logical volumes. All oth er Centr icStor activ ities continue to r un. The hos ts can continue to acc ess logical volumes that are already mounte ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 411

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 411 XTCC R AID systems 8.17 RAID systems 8.17.1 Object information on RAID systems Centr icStor c an be su pplied with th e RAID syste ms S80, CX50 0, CX3-20 and Eter nus 3000/4000. I n XTCC, the RAID sy stems are represented a s perip herals conne cted to the ISP vi a a Fibre Channel cont roller . In some Centr icStor confi gura ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 412

    412 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 RAID systems XTCC The cont roller ty pes differ slightly i n their pr esentation of the functi ons av a ilable: S80 (=F C2502) Inter nal RAI D system CX500/CX 3-20 Eter nus 3000 /4000 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 413

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 413 XTCC R AID systems In the c ase of extern al RAID sy stems, the infor mation window con tains the f o llowing infor- mation: – vendor ID , product ID – type and seria l number of the R AID sys tem – fir mware relea se (insofar as this c an be quer ied) – operating st atus and any e rror messa ges (info) – inter nal ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 414

    414 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 RAID systems XTCC 8.17. 2 Functions of RAID sy stems The following functi ons are availabl e: – Show Complete RAID Status (al l types) – Show Mode Pages (CX5 00/CX3-20 and FCS80) – Show Mode Page Details – Show Log Pages – Show Log Page Details The availability of th e functio ns de-pends on the par t icular RAI D ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 415

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 415 XTCC R AID systems This v er y extensive inf or mation indicat es the stat us of the co ntrollers and the di sks. The displ a y s are sel f-explanator y . For a more p recise inter pretation , in par ticular in the ca se of par ti al f ailures, pl ease refer to the RAI D system manua l. The conte nt and pr esentatio n depend ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 416

    416 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 PLM (Physica l Librar y Manager) XTCC 8.18 PLM (Ph ysic al Library Manager) 8.18.1 Object inf ormation on the PLM The st atus of the P h y sical Li brary M anager (PL M) is repre sented by the col ors pink (stop ped), green (r unning), green / bro wn (r unning with trace switched on ) and green / red (in reco v ery mode). In ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 417

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 417 XTCC PLS (Physical Library Service) 8.19 PLS (Physi cal Library S ervice) 8.19.1 Object inf ormation on the PLS Each p hysical librar y is assigne d at leas t one PLS (Phy sical Librar y Ser ver). The P LS of a SCSI- controlled ar chive must run o n the ISP th at contai ns the asso ciated SCSI c ontroller . The eas iest wa y ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 418

    418 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 SCSI archive systems XTCC 8.20 SCSI arc hive systems 8.20.1 Object inf ormation on arc hive systems Arch ives with a SCSI- controlled access sy stem can be o perated in t he ISP via t he XTCC instan ce contai ning the a ssociated PLS. A li ghter-col ored image of the a rchive system is shown b ehind the drive(s) belonging to ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 419

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 419 XTCC SCSI a rchive syst ems 8.20. 2 SCSI Ar chive syste m func tions This function is off ered aft er you righ t-click on the archive system icon (beh ind the dr ive icon). The Show Mode P ages , Show Mode P age De tails , Show Log P ages and Show Log P age Details f unctions are n ot off ered for all li braries. 8.20.2.1 Sho ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 420

    420 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 PDS (Physical D evice Servic e) XTCC 8.21 PDS (Physi cal De vice Service) 8.21.1 Object information on P DS A PDS (Physical Device Ser ver) control s precis ely one physical de vice. The obj ect infor- mation displays the control ler and tar get of the a ssociated SC SI device. This informati on is also i ndicated by the col ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 421

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 421 XTCC SCSI control lers 8.22 SCSI controll ers 8.22.1 Object information on S CSI control lers Each S CSI control ler is repr esented by a block at the bottom of the inn er window . Wi thin the block, the device number (SCS I #1, SCSI# 2, etc.), con troller numbe r , and i nterf ace type (SP = S CSI parall el / FC = Fib re Cha ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 422

    422 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 SCSI co ntrollers XTCC Max. T ar gets the maximum number of targets supp or ted by the con troller Name the sys tem name of the control ler Interface the interface v ar iant (e.g. SCSI Parallel or Fibre Cha nnel) T arget L ocation an in dication of whether or not the targets are insid e or outside the cabinet. Mode mode, if ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 423

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 423 XTCC Cartridge drives (real) 8.23 C artridge drives (rea l) 8.23.1 Object inf orma tion on tape drives The X TCC user interface is d esigned for a wide range of tape dr ives. Please refer to the data sh eet for y our prod uct variant to deter mine whic h drives are o r can be co nnected. Depen ding on the dr ive type, some of ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 424

    424 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Cart ridge drive s (real) XTCC If Ser v ice Informati on Mess ages (S IM) or M edium In f o rmati on Mess ages (MIM ) are p resent in the driv e , th ese a re indi cat ed b y me ans of a y ell ow or re d flas hing SIM/ MIM sym bol , dependi ng on thei r se verity (sev eri ty 0/1/2/3 = S er vice/Mod erate/Ser ious/Acute ). If ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 425

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 425 XTCC Cartridge drives (real) 8.23.2 T ape drive functions Whic h functions a re actuall y offered depends on the dri v e type. The menus are only examples. The following functi ons are availabl e: – Sho w SCSI S ense – Show Log Pages – Show Log Page Details – Show Mode Pages – Show Mode Page Details – Sho w Vi tal ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 426

    426 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Cart ridge drive s (real) XTCC 8.23 .2.1 Show SCSI Se nse Displa ys the S CSI se nse da ta: SCSI lo gging sta r ts with th e ear liest entr ies, (see time stamp). I t consists of f our reference secti ons which are descr ibed in th e hardware reference manual of the corr esponding device. For MBK6 (3490- HSI): – CDB, i.e. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 427

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 427 XTCC Cartridge drives (real) 8.23.2.3 Show Log P age Details A subm enu is opened i n which you spec ify whic h log pag es are to be itemized and displa yed. 8.23.2.4 Show Mode Pa ges Displ a y s the SCSI m ode pages : This displays the curren t device setting (to perform a detailed an alysis it i s essential to refer to the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 428

    428 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Cart ridge drive s (real) XTCC 8.23.2.5 Sh ow Mode Page Details A subm enu shows whic h mode page s the device su pplies. If you sele ct a page here th at is also des cribed in the SCSI sta ndard, this wil l be display ed and inte r preted in d etail as in the example below . The S CSI topology (CTL) as well as the Inq uir y ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 429

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 429 XTCC Cartridge drives (real) 8.23.2.6 S how Vital Product Data Displ a y s cer tai n elements o f the vital product da ta: Y ou can use this functi on to displ a y a sub section of the confi guration data stored in the ta pe device. The device set tings mad e in the Ser v ice and Op erator menus can be found again here. Thes ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 430

    430 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Cart ridge drive s (real) XTCC Extract from the FID lo g: In this wa y you can e xtract a n e v ent or error histor y . FID code and FS C1 and FSC2 (F au lt Sympto m Code) must be repor ted to the manufacturer if e rrors which c annot be res olv ed occur on th e de vice. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 431

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 431 XTCC Cartridge drives (real) 8.23.2.7 Sh ow Medium Info (MIM) If the re is no MIM entr y , you wil l be notified in an info bo x: If Me dium Informati on Message s hav e been re corded, a text window app ears with the messa ges: The MIM s of the dr ives are recorded. T he MIMs a nd the various re sponses are d escri bed in th ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 432

    432 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Cart ridge drive s (real) XTCC 8.23.2.8 S how Service Info (SIM) Displ a y s the Ser vic e Inf or mation M essages: If p rob lems relating to the cha nnel adap ter (CONTROL UNI T) or tape devices (T APE) occur , this i nf or mation perm its a bett er asse ssment of the sev erity of the rec orded erro r . The problem i s desc ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 433

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 433 XTCC MSG MGR (Mess age Manager ) 8.23.3.1 R emove Symbols of all Drives Removes all war ning s ignals on dr ives (MIM a nd SIM sy mbols) wi thout having to retrieve the under lying error messag e. W ar ning sig nals can als o be removed in Obser ve mode, b u t only by retr ieving the under lying er ror message. 8.24 M SGMGR ( ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 434

    434 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 MSGMGR (Message Manager) XTCC 8.24.2.1 S how T race Displays the trace da ta: 8.24.2.2 S how T rap T race Displays the trap trace da ta: The trap trace r ecords a ll SNMP traps s ent by the Messag e Manager to the SNMP mana gement sta tion(s). ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 435

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 435 XTCC PERFLOG 8.25 PERFLOG 8.25.1 Object inf ormation of PERFLOG PER FLOG regular ly co llects perfor mance-re lated syst em data and store s it in log files. The loggin g per iod and th e direct ory in whic h log files are stored can be defined by se rvi ce perso nnel dur ing conf iguration. The l og files can be di splay ed ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 436

    436 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 PERFLOG XTCC 8.25. 2 PERFLOG functi ons 8.25.2.1 Show T race & Logging Displ a y s the trace and l og data: This example s hows an extract from a trace depi cting the ev ents r ecorded dur ing sta r tup. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 437

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 437 XTCC ACCOUNTD (Acc ount Daemon) 8.26 A CCOUNTD (Accoun t Daemon) 8.26.1 Object inf ormation of A CCOUNTD The A ccount Daemo n records the account ing data i n a database. This obj ect is dis pla yed as of Cent ricSto r V3.1C20 00 provided the Account ing Licens e is instal led. The s tatus of th e Acco unt Daemo n (ACCOUNTD) ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 438

    438 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 MIRRORD (mirr or daemon) XTCC 8.27 M IRR ORD (mirror daemon) 8.27.1 Object inf ormation of MIRR ORD The mir ror daemon monitors th e status of th e cache mirr or . The pres entation of this obj ect requires Cen tricSt orV3.1C and the Cach e Mirrori ng F eature Lic ense (CMF). MIRRORD co nsists of two pr ocesses: th e parent ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 439

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 439 XTCC S80D ( S80 daemo n) 8.28 S80D (S80 daemon) 8.28.1 Object inf ormation of S80D Daem on S80D is a monitor ing proc ess for RAID syst ems of the type FC2 502. Name Name as shown in the s ymbol PID Proc ess ID A utos tar t ena b led / di sabled The st atus of the da emon is ind icated by the following color s: pink St opped ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 440

    440 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 VLPW A TCH (VLPwatch daemon) XTCC 8.29 VLPW A TCH (VLPwatch daemon) 8.29.1 Object inf ormation of VLPW A TCH When th e A utoVL P f ailover function is e nabled, one VLP watch daemon r uns on the VLP and one on the SVLP . These daemons m onitor the operational integrit y of the VLP and , in the ev ent of a f a ilure, tri gger ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 441

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 441 9 Explanation of console messages 9.1 General When unus ual ev ents occur, the v ariou s Centr icStor sof tware compone nts output messa ges at t he conso le. The me ssage texts are stored in the fil e /var/adm/klog.m sg on the hos t in quest ion and c an be viewed centrally v ia the GXCC menu item “ Show System Messages” ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 442

    442 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 General Explanatio n of cons ole mess ages The col or and text of the m essage provide you with i mpor tan t inf or mation co ncer ning an ev ent : ● Messag e color The co lor informs you of the “urg ency” of a message: The weight is no rm ally a compo nent par t of the message text. When thi s is not the case, the wei ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 443

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 443 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages General ● Alongs ide the me ssage number , the weight and the mes sage text itself, the mess age provides the f ollowin g additio nal informati on. Example In the s ections bel ow , o nly the me ssage line componen ts pr inted in b old here, i.e. the mess age number and m essage t e x t, a ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 444

    444 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 General Explanatio n of cons ole mess ages The me ssage numb ers in the following se ction are arranged al phabetic ally Message Pa g e SXCF ... (CMF: Cach e Mirror ing Feature) 445 SXCH... (C hannel: pcib/pcea) 447 SXCM... (CHIM) 449 SXDN... (DNA : Distribute and Activate) 450 SXDT ... (DTV File System) 450 SXFC... (FibreCh ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 445

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 445 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2 M essa ge lines 9.2.1 SXCF ... (CMF: Cache Mirr oring Feature) SXCF01 2 C MF(#12 ): ALE RT: fai led to become PRIMA RY, tim e exha usted: <sec> second s Meaning Dur ing the switchover to multi-user m ode (RunL e vel 2) i n the VLP’ s boot phase the rc2 script /etc/r ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 446

    446 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Case 3: If the v alue 0 seconds is specifie d as the pe riod, n o usable data is c ontained in /etc/mirror d/ms.db . Notify 3rd-Lev el Suppor t! SXCF01 4 C MF(#14 ): ALE RT: fai led to become PRIMA RY, sta le dat a Meaning When switching fr om SVLP to VLP a mi rror backup ser ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 447

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 447 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 4. Ch eck whether the mi rror ser ver’ s processes a re runn ing: myps mir ror.s Sample output ? 922 1 ? ? ? ? / etc/mir rord/m irror.c lient ? 5179 517 7 ? ? ? ? / etc/mir rord/m irror.s erver ? 5177 1 ? ? ? ? / etc/mir rord/m irror.s erver In the mi rror ser ver’ s ev ent ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 448

    448 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXCH00 4 E SCON-a d pcea<po rt> (bus <pci-bus > dev <pci -device >) start ed NOTICE Meaning The ESC ON por t <port> has b een activated. T his happens regula rly a t system s tar tup. A por t c an also be reactivated after being rese t or deactivated. S ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 449

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 449 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXCH00 9 ESCON-a daptor <board > (ser _no <seri al-nr) Compar e Erro r in Ch annel <chn> ALERT Meaning A test of the i nter nal data pa ths on t he ESCON bo ard (PCEA S/PCEA T) which runs dur ing the star tup phas e and idl e times re turned an error . Response R ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 450

    450 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s 9.2.4 SXDN... (DNA: Distribute and Activ a te) SXDN10 0 ( DNA#10 0): ALERT : switch SVLP_to_ VLP succ essfull y comple ted! (nee ded time : <mm>:< ss> (m m:ss) ) Meaning The V LP switchov er was suc cessful. T he time required for it is s pecifie d in pare ntheses. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 451

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 451 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXDT00 3 D TV(# 3 ): ALE RT: dev =<maj, min>: d isk fi lesyste m stat e is c orrupted! Meaning Due to I/O errors whe n wri ting metad ata, the DTV fi le system on the co rresponding h ard disk has become inconsist ent. If this I/O problem is temporar y , the m etadata ope ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 452

    452 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s 9.2.6 SXFC... (FibreChannel Driver) SXFC02 6 P VA1ICP 0 : FC2: IOCB _E_LOC AL_REJE CT ALERT SXFC00 5 P VA1ICP 0 : FC2: loop _id 0, IOCB error seq uence tim eout None Meaning Thes e two messages only occu r together. The 'sequenc e timeout' indi cates a pr ob lem whic ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 453

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 453 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXFC03 0 F C5: RS CN for port 0 063771 3 recei ved NOTICE RSCN m eans “Regis tered State Change Noti fication ”. This is a “ser vice ” of the FC s witch which ev e r y FC por t c an request fr om the switch. As t he “central u nit” the s witch at all times ha s a ge ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 454

    454 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s The me ssage is o nly signif icant f or extern al FC c ontrollers. The abor tion m a y hav e been initia ted either by the SAN ho st or Centr icStor . <host> contai ns the 4 most significan t b ytes of the ho st WWN. A da ta transfer (read/wri te) is genera lly abor ted, ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 455

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 455 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines T emporary una vailability of the FC The following messa ge complex, with LO OP-DOWN, rescheduli ng and LINK -UP messa ges, is output: SXFP04 1 f cpal<n > (sadm<k >): resc hedulin g after te mporari ly unava ilable re source None SXFP04 1 f cpal<n > (sadm<k ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 456

    456 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s 9.2.9 SXIB... (Info Br oker) Syst em me ssa ges fr om the Inf o Br oker SXIB00 1 I B 001 EMER GENCY "** * %s File Sys tem full . ***" Meaning %s = name of the affected fil e system. The fi le system is 100% fu ll. SXIB00 2 I B 002 ALER T "*** %s Fil e System %d ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 457

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 457 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXIB20 0 I B 200 NOTI CE "Pleas e archiv e the perfo rmance hi story lo g files." Response If pe rf or ma nce analys es are re quired for period s which precede the recording period , the histor y log fil es from the [fsys ]/apc/diag/em tape/hist_log directo ry must b ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 458

    458 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Response W ait to see whether th e error mes sage appe ars repeate dly (multiple m essages) bec ause with “b ge” and the “ cisco c atalyth switches” the re is the problem th at the L AN is only av ailable with a dela y . If the er ror recurs repeatedly , . No tify the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 459

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 459 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2.12 SXMM... (Message Manager) SXMM00 7 K LOG[<p id>]: INFO: M essage Manage r unav ailable ! Meaning Informat ion that the Message Ma nager is not av ailable. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXMM00 5 K LOG[<p id>]: WAR NING: vl sTrace( <trace signal>) ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 460

    460 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXMM00 5 K LOG[<p id>]: WARNING : fope n(/dev/ osm) e rror er rno=<e rror n umber> <erro r descri ption> Meaning Error while openin g /dev/osm . Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXMM00 5 K LOG[<p id>]: WARNING : fsta t(/dev/ osm) e rror er rno=< ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 461

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 461 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXMM00 7 K LOG[<p id>]: INF O: setsi d() errno =<erro r number> <error de scripti on> Meaning Inte rnal pr oces s err or SXMM01 2 V LSM[<p id>]: WAR NING: to o many clie nt entri es pid=<p rocess id> sd=<so cket desc ript or> Meaning Owing to ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 462

    462 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXMM01 2 V LSM[<p id>]: WAR NING: Ch eck Path /u sr/apc /tmp/ms gadm err or Meaning The di rector y /usr/apc/tm p/msgadm can not be created. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXMM01 2 V LSM[<p id>]: WAR NING: ch dir(/us r/apc/ tmp/ms gadm) err or errno= <err ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 463

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 463 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXMM01 3 V LSM[<p id>]: NOT ICE: Fil e <filena me> remo ved Meaning Informat ion indic ating tha t the oldest hi stor y file has been re mov ed. SXMM01 4 V LSM[<p id>]: INF O: No spac e left in /ms g (kbytes =<n> use ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 464

    464 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXMM01 9 E MSG[<p id>]: WAR NING: Re adNextE vtMsgL ine() err or Meaning Error while reading t he ev ent message file. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXMM01 9 E MSG[<p id>]: WAR NING: fo rk() erro r errno= <error nu m ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 465

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 465 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXMM01 9 E MSG[<p id>]: INFO: M essage Manage r unav ailable ! Meaning Informat ion that the Message Ma nager is not av ailable. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXMM02 1 E MSG[<p id>]: INFO: * ****** START EmsgTr ap (Eve ntMess ageTra p) daemon Meaning Informa ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 466

    466 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXPL00 3 P LM(#3) : ALERT: <P DS-nam e> on <host name> no t reachab le Meaning It was not pos sible to send a message to th e PDS <PDS-name > on the host <hostname> . Response Check whether the PDS and /or host are run ning and wh ether the T CP/IP conn ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 467

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 467 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines Check the following values: – soft min imum number of em pty PV – hard mini mum number of e mpty PV – absolu te minimum numb er of empty P V – amount of v alid da ta f or REORG – tim efra me for RE ORG The ma rgin between “soft” and “ hard” should be large eno ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 468

    468 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXPL01 1 P LM(#11 ):NOTI CE: num ber of free P Vs of PV-grou p <PVG > over absolute minim um (< num >) again Meaning The numb er of free ta pes is agai n greater than the absolute m inimum. SXPL01 2 P LM(#12 ): ERR OR: <PD S-name > doesn 't eje ct a vo l ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 469

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 469 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines List of the error st rings reported with PLM/RPLM(#16) ERR_PD S_03 _INIT : Meaning Error while initia lizing /opening th e device node. Illegal device node (path). Illegal di rector y in th e car tr idge’ s memor y chip 1 (tap e director y c orrupt ed). Response Evaluate phys ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 470

    470 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s ERR_PD S_03 _DRV_ NOTR EADY Meaning MTC dr ive/tape car tr idge is no t ready . Timeo ut e xpired. E rror on T estUnitRe ady . Response Evaluate physical er ror code and sense bytes! Nor mal behavior on unload if error infor mation AS C/ASCQ 3A/00 or 04/ 03 present. In t his c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 471

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 471 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines ERR_P DS_03_ POS_NOT _AFTER _TAPEMA RK Meaning P ositioning error : There is no tape mar ke immed iately in front o f the read/ write pos ition that is to b e adopted. Th e block position transferred is pre sumably not corr ect. Response Evaluate the ph ysical er ror code and s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 472

    472 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Response Notify m aintenance s taff . ERR_PD S_02 _WRIT E Meaning Error while writi ng to the c ache file Response Notify m aintenance s taff . ERR_PD S_02 _SEEK Meaning Error while positi oning in the ca che file Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXPL01 8 P LM(#18 ): ERRO ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 473

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 473 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines ERR_P DS_01_ INVALID _HEADE R_SIGN Meaning T ape head er has n o v alid iden tifier (P OS1) at posit ion 0. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . ERR_PD S_01 _TAPE _NON _VTLS Meaning T ape head er does not hav e a valid Centr icStor i dentifier . Response The volume was probabl ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 474

    474 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s ERR_PD S_01 _VSN_ NOT_ VALID Meaning VSN in the tape he ader and t he transf erred VSN are not identical. The operation can therefore not b e perf or med. Response This is probably due to m anual inter vention. If you are s ure that ther e is no user da ta on the car tr idge, ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 475

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 475 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXPL02 1 L M(#21) : NOTICE: Reorgan isation failed fo r LV <LV-na me> on PV <PV -name> , contin ue Meaning A reorg anizatio n operation ini tiated by the user encounter ed an error . The lo gical volume <LV-name> could not be read f rom the physical v olume &l ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 476

    476 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXPL02 5 P LM(#25 ): WARNING : <n um> singl e saved LV s in dual sav e LV-grou p <name> found Meaning Following a disa ster recover y it is p ossible that logi cal volumes were first saved in a group or , if a du al sav e group has b een cre ated from a s ingle sav ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 477

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 477 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines Response Install the appr opriate licens e ke y . SXPL03 0 P LM(#30 ):CRIT ICAL: mis sing lice nce for op tional fu nction "Multipl e Librar y Suppor t", ex iting ! Meaning Sev eral physical l ibrar y ser vers are co nfigured , but the required licens e ke y is mi ssi ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 478

    478 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXPL04 1 P LM(#41 ): NOT ICE: Cl eaning -group of Tap e-libra ry <na me> ha s no cart ridge, tape-l ibra ry is res ponsib le f or cl eaning ! Meaning No clea ning car t ridge i s present. Response It is only necessar y to ent er cleaning car tri dges if Centr icStor is t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 479

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 479 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXPL04 8 P LM(#48 ): NOT ICE: <n um> cl eancycl es for tape-l ibrary <name > availab le aga in Meaning PLM(# 45) has bee n correct ly responded to? SXPL04 9 P LM(#49 ): WAR NING: e jected PV <na me> of tapeli brary <name> is neede d for restor e ! Meanin ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 480

    480 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Response Only use car tr idges with enough capacity . SXPL05 6 P LM(#56 ): NOT ICE: al l PVGs of TL <name> deacti vated Meaning This mes sage is outp ut after the plmcmd conf -e -T <TL> command has been is sued: All physical volume gro ups of the sp ecified ro bot ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 481

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 481 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXPL06 2 P LM(#62 ): ERROR : LV <name> can not be re organiz ed, reas on: <reas on>. It wa s set to inac cessib le at the PLM . Meaning The P LM attem pts to reorga nize an L V . T his L V is unknown to the VLM or in the “faulty” sta- tus and c an therefore not ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 482

    482 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s 9.2.14 SXPS... (P LS: Ph ysical Library Server) For the messag es SXPS 000 to SX PS008 of the r obot sof tware, only error numbe rs #4000 - #4008 are d escri bed becau se these er ror messages are depend ent on the r obot. The various e rror messag es f or robot ty pes suppor ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 483

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 483 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXPS00 6 P LS(#40 06) ERROR : <robot error mess age> Meaning A gene ral robo t er ror w hich is not necess arily tr aceab le to a d e vice or a c asse tte . The me aning of th e error mes sage can be found in t he relev a nt robot d ocumentati on. Response The robo t erro ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 484

    484 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXPS99 6 P LS 996 NOTIC E "Stop %s fo r Maint enance ." Meaning %s stands for: P LS name ( e.g. PLS1 , ...). The P LS proces s %s was stopped via a menu in th e graphical user inter f a ce. PLS 997 NOTIC E "%s autom atical ly restar ted %s after %d tries." ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 485

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 485 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2 .15 SX RD .. . (Fibr eCA T: RAID ) The ta b le below sh ows the messa ge numbers with th e RAID syste ms which is sue the messa ges: 9.2.15.1 M essages o f the monitorin g daemon for the intern al RAID Messages during ongoing operation SXRD0 01 NOTICE: ra idd: 0: BBU - ch a ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 486

    486 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXRD0 01 NOTICE: ra idd: 0: 0:1 - di sk stat e change d (De ad -> Writ e-On ly) Meaning A rebuild is active f or the physical di sk of contr oller 0, c hannel 0, tar get ID 1. SXRD0 01 NOTICE: ra idd: 0: 0:1 - di sk stat e change d (De ad -> Onli ne) Meaning A rebuild wa ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 487

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 487 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXRD00 1 A LERT: ra idd: c50d 0 - state is Cr itical Meaning This message is onl y generated whe n the raidd is sta r ted at system boot. The logic al disk 0 on co ntroller 0 no longer pr ovides any redunda ncy . T his indic ates a hard ware problem with a ph ysical disk be lon ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 488

    488 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXRD10 4 W ARNING : raid 0:1: 0 - Disk: Wri te-Onl y, 17300 MB Meaning A rebuild is active f or the physical di sk of contr oller 0, c hannel 1, tar get ID 0. 9.2.15.2 Fib reCA T S8 0 messages SXRD00 <n> s 80d: R AID: <wei ght>: <raid- id> Rai d<raid #> ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 489

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 489 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines Response In the ev ent o f a message w ith the erro r weight ALERT: Notify maint enance s taff . Example SXRD0 03 s80d: RA ID: ALERT : #21221 5 Enclosu re 3, Power Supply 2 Cr itical Connecti on between st atus and e rror weighting: OK NO TICE W a r ning W ARNING Not A vailab l ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 490

    490 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s 9.2.15.4 Fib reCA T CX500 and CX3-20 me ssages SXRD50 1 R AID: NOT ICE <raid -id> Har d SCSI Erro r recover ed (<#50 1>) c<ctr l>t<tg t>l<lun> Wher e: <raid-id> ID of the Fibr eCA T (targe t # of the two RAID c ontrollers) c<ctrl>t< ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 491

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 491 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2.16 SXRP ... (RPLM: Reco very Physic al Library Mana ger) SXRP00 3 RPLM(#3 ): ALE RT: <PD S-name > on <hos tname> not re achabl e Meaning It was not pos sible to send a message to th e PDS <PDS-name > on the host <hostname> . Response Check whether th ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 492

    492 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXRP01 5 R PLM(#15) : ERROR : <PDS- name> r eports sense = <Sense- Byte-V alue> o n PV <PV-n ame> Meaning The PDS <PDS-name > has repor te d an err or code for the physical volume < PV-name> . Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXRP01 6 RLM(#16 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 493

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 493 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXRP01 9 RPLM(#1 9): NO TICE: j ob can celed on PDS <p ds>, PV <pv>, state <state > Meaning The PL S or th e PD S could not e x ecute a j ob bec aus e of a time out. <state> Des cribes th e comman d in which the timeout o ccurred. F or the PLS: PLS_IN SP ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 494

    494 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXRP05 1 RPLM(#5 1): ER ROR: <p ds> re ports err no = < num> ( <strin g> ) on PV <n ame> Meaning The P DS has de tected an error. Response Notify maintenan ce staff if necessar y . SXRP05 2 RPL M(#52) : NOTICE : PLS re ports VO LUME ER ROR for P V <p ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 495

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 495 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXSB00 7 < PC> : fcpal< n> (sad m<m>): timeou t on t arget < t> lun <l> C DB <some bytes> ALERT F or more i nf or mation, s ee the se ction “Timeo ut on the RA ID disk array” on page 538 a nd sec tion “Timeo ut on the MT C drives” on ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 496

    496 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXSD01 7 s hd<k>t <ctl>: cmd " Read" @ blk < n> key "Mediu m Erro r" (0x 03) asc . ... ALERT Meaning Irrecoverabl e read errors occ ur sporadical ly on the F ibreCA T RAID d isk arra y desp ite mirroring. Response Notify m aintenance s taf ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 497

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 497 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2.21 SXSM... ( Server Mana gement) The ter m “sma#” used in this des cripti on is a coll ective ter m f or the proc ess nam es “sma”, “sma 02”, “sma03” , “sma04”, “s ma05” and “ sma06” which are speci fied in th e error messa ges in accor dance wit ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 498

    498 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Depen ding on the Primer g y type th e ser ver will be reac tiv ated a fter the wait tim e specif ied in the BIO S setup and the sys tem star ted up. This mechanism is gov er ned b y the “ASR&R Boot Del a y” and “ Boot Retr y Counte r” entr ies in the BIOS se tup . ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 499

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 499 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXSM01 0 s ma#: Mem ory Modul e <Id> dis abled ALERT SXSM01 0 s ma#: M emory Module disabl ed; Mod ule# = <Id> ALERT Meaning Memor y module <Id> is in t he “dis ab led” st ate. This ca n be caus ed by the following: a) The memor y m odule was dis abl ed in ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 500

    500 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXSM01 8 s ma#: F an <Id >: Fan is not manage able ALERT Meaning Fa n <Id > has failed and must be replaced. If the f a n is inoperable for more tha n 3 minutes, the SINIX system is s hut down and the ser ver deactivated to prev ent the s er v er from ov er heating ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 501

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 501 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXSM02 6 s ma#: <Id > Voltage is too low ALERT Meaning The voltage with ID <Id> is too low . This message c an also b e trigge red by f aulty reg ulators, se nsors, batter ies or p ow er suppl ies . Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXSM02 7 s ma#: <Id > V ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 502

    502 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s If the f a n is inoperable for more tha n 3 minutes, the SINIX system is s hut down and the ser ver deactivated to prev ent the s er v er from ov er heating. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXSM03 3 s ma#: Fan <Id>: Fan wa s removed ALERT Meaning Fa n <Id > h ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 503

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 503 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXSM0 36 sma#: CP U <ID> in tern al error occurr ed ALERT Meaning An inte rnal error was detected i n CPU <Id> . Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXSM03 7 s ma#: F an <Id > conne ction to fanb oard d efectiv e ALERT Meaning The cable co nnection from the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 504

    504 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXSM04 2 s ma#: M emory Error L ogging limit reache d ALERT Meaning The li mit f or the M emor y Error Log was r eached beca use of too ma ny correctable mem ory err ors. No fur t her correc table m emo r y erro rs a re re cord ed. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXSM04 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 505

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 505 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXSM0 46 sma#: PC I syste m erro r; bus# < a>; devi ce# <b >; func tion # <c> ALERT Meaning A PCI sy stem erro r is indic ated by an onboard d evice . Th e onboard device is indicated by the b us/device/fun ction <a, b, ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 506

    506 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXSM0 49 sma#: Pr imergy Prod uct Seri al Numb er not availa ble ALERT Meaning The prod uct ser ial number of the Pr imergy is not av ailable. This ca n be caused b y the fol l ow i ng : a) The prod uct ser ial number is n ot entered in the Pr imergy IdProm (e.g. a fter the ID ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 507

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 507 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXSM0 54 sma#: CPU <I d> auto mati cally t hrottl ed ALERT Meaning The C PU performa nce has be en reduced because the CPU te mperature was hi gh. This i s design ed to prev ent the C PU from beco ming any hott er and enter ing th e c ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 508

    508 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Response Check the am bient tempe rature and the f a n situation. Noti fy maintenan ce staff i ff no con- nectio n to increas ed ambie nt temperatures or f an faults could b e deter mined and this mes- sage c ontinues to app ear. SXSM05 8 sma#: F atal g eneral memory error; M ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 509

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 509 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXSM50 1 s ma#: B IOS Bo ot Retr y Coun ter cou ntdown occurr ed - m aybe w atchdog t imeout ALERT Meaning The Boot Retr y Counter 1 (BIO S setup, menu item Se rver) has ti med out. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXSM50 2 s ma#: I nterna l error at co mmunica tion w ith ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 510

    510 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s 9.2.22 SXSW ... (Software M irr or) SXSW01 0 S WM(#10 ): ALE RT: <de v> mir ror deg rade: <part> failed Meaning P art of th e mir ror ( <part> , pri mar y or se condar y) has failed. As the device <dev> is design ed with redun dancy , operati ons can co ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 511

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 511 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXTF00 3 E RROR: dt v_ipall oc: dtv_ ipsize to o big, set to <val> Meaning The value of the Inode p ool size that can b e configu red using s pace.c is inv alid an d is repla ced by the ma ximum per mitted value. The result is that the maximum pe rmit ted value is used. R ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 512

    512 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXTF00 4 W ARNING : dtv_mou nt: seto pt(CLUS TER_RE ADS) fail ed! Meaning The di sk controll er intended as the volume cac he cannot perform cl uster read ope rations. This error should o nly occur durin g test operatio n if no RAID control ler is av ailable. P erfor- mance ma ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 513

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 513 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXTF00 5 N OTICE: dtv_i read: r oot di rectory stale ! SXTF00 5 N OTICE: dtv_r dlookup : root direct ory st ale: <n ame>, ino=<n um> Meaning These er ror mess ages indic ate that, du e to manual inte r v ention, the image of th e root director y store d in the wor k ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 514

    514 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXTF00 5 N OTICE: dtv_irea d(<maj ,min>: ino=<ino >): root di rector y stale! SXTF00 5 N OTICE: dtv_r dlookup (<maj, min>: i no=<in o>): ro ot dir ectory stale! Meaning When r eading in a f ile or sea rching the roo t director y on a DTV client system ( ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 515

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 515 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXTF00 6 P ANIC: dtv_ia ctive(< maj,mi n>: <cn t> ino de(s) i n use Meaning The fi le system has been u nmounted even though it was curr ently in us e. This results in a s ystem crash . Response Notify maintenan ce staff if necessar y . SXTF00 7 E RROR: <func> ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 516

    516 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXTF01 1 D TV_FSC K(dev= <maj,mi n>): < message > ...< message > Meaning Nor mal ou tput of the i mplicit fi le system che ck carried o ut when mou nting a DT V file system. 9.2.24 SXVD ... (Distribute d T ape V olume Driver) SXVD00 1 v drv<n> (FAIL OVE ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 517

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 517 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2.25 SXVL... (VLM: Virtual Library Manager) SXVL00 1 V LM(# 1 ): ALE RT: ??? : cann ot regi ster a s super visor - not mounted ? Meaning The V LM cann ot log on as super vis or for a speci fic cache filesys tem. The reason for this is usuall y that the filesyste m specifie d ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 518

    518 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXVL00 6 V LM(# 6 ): ERR OR: vol ume ?? ? set t o 'Fau lty' (? ??) Meaning This error can h a ve a number of di ff erent ca uses. It is usu ally caus ed by problems access ing the DTV filesystem . Fur ther de tails can b e f ound i n the logging inf or mation. Respon ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 519

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 519 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXVL01 3 V LM(#13 ):ALER T: FATA L: dat abase i nconsi stencie s ! Meaning Incons istencies hav e occurred i n the VLM data maintenan ce system. Response Notify m aintenance sta ff! SXVL01 4 V LM(#14 ): FATAL: more file s in cache X th an allowed : NNN (max. MMM) Meaning This m ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 520

    520 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXVL02 0 V LM(#20 ): ALE RT: vtl s.conf : SCRAT CH_LAB EL_<??? >: wro ng for mat Meaning When th e VLM was st ar ted er rors were found in confi guration fi le vtls.conf. The VLM is ter minate d. Response Notify m aintenance s taff . SXVL02 1 V LM(#21 ): ALERT: vtls.co n ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 521

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 521 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXVL9 97 VLM 997 NOTICE "Aut omatic ally re star ted after %d tries. " Meaning The VLM was a utomatically restar ted afte r %d attempts. SXVL9 98 VLM 998 N OTICE "Aut omatic ally re star ted." Meaning The V LM was au tomatic ally re star ted. SXVL99 9 V LM 9 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 522

    522 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s 9.2.27 SXVS... (VLS: Virtual Librar y Server) SXVS99 5 V LS(#99 5): NOTIC E "%s star ted." Meaning %s stands f o r : VLS name ( e.g. VA02 , VC03, etc.) . The V LS process %s was star ted v ia a menu in the graphica l interface. SXVS99 6 V LS(#99 6): NOTIC E "Sto ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 523

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 523 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2.28 SXVW ... (VLPW A TCH) VLP failover messag es SXVW00 1 V LPWATC H: ALE RT: Aut oVLP-F ailover : swit ch SVLP _to_VL P succ essfully comple ted! Meaning The switchover from the SV LP to the V LP has been successf ully co mpleted. SXVW00 2 V LPWATC H: ALE RT: Aut oVLP-F ail ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 524

    524 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXVW00 7 V LPWATC H: ALERT: VW(#007 ) AutoVLP -Failov er: Raid 1 (cache 10 0 | 101) not mou nted! SXVW00 7 V LPWATC H: ALER T: VW(# 007) Au toVLP- Failov er: con nection to LAN and star t of vtl s preven ted! SXVW00 7 V LPWATC H: ALER T: VW(# 007) Au toVLP- Failove r: plea se ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 525

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 525 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines Response Rectify the LAN conn ection pro blems and reboot the ISP . SXVW01 2 V LPWATC H: ALE RT: VW( #012) AutoVLP -Failo ver: FC conne ction to RAID i s DOWN ; shutdo wn! Meaning There is no connecti on to the 1st RAID s ystem. A shutdown with P ower OFF was performed for the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 526

    526 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Response The fu nction shou ld already hav e been stop ped on the VLP ; if it has not been, it must be stopped on the VL P . The ad ditional messages mus t be taken into ac count; deta iled infor- mation is stor ed in the l og_VLPwatch and log_vl pwatch file s in the l ogging ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 527

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 527 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXVW02 0 V LPWATC H: ALERT : VW(#0 20) Auto VLP-Fa ilover: VLPwat ch is sta rted fi rst on SVLP Meaning The VLP w atch mo nitor ing wizard was star ted on the SVLP fi rst. This is no t per missible. (Can on ly be don e in the cas e of manual ac tiv ation.) Response Restar t the ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 528

    528 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s Response If the VLP and S VLP are r unni ng correctly automati c s witchover should be initia ted manually . SXVW02 6 V LPWATC H: ALE RT: VW( #026) switch VLP/SV LP to S VLP/VL P time d out - r eboot! Meaning The switchover from the VLP to the SVLP or from the SVLP to the V LP ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 529

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 529 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXVW03 1 V LPWATC H: ALER T: VW( #031) AutoVLP -failo ver: in ternal or ext ernal LA N conne ction is not co nfigure d; termi nated! SXVW03 1 V LPWATC H: ALERT : VW(#03 1) AutoV LP-fai lover: please co rrect t he LAN-c onnection and rebo ot the system ! Meaning Less t han 2 LAN ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 530

    530 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXVW03 8 V LPWATC H: NOTI CE: VW (#038) AutoVL P-Failo ver: V LP is a live: wait max. 180 se conds befor e a failove r, if VLP is not alive Meaning The V LP has al ready pr ovided a sig n of life in the extended monitor ing t ime of 7 or 5 minute s in the b oot or st ar t phas ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 531

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 531 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXVW04 6 V LPWATC H: NOT ICE: VW (#046) AutoVL P-fail over: S VLP is alive ! Meaning The V LP logs that the SVLP is av ailable. SXVW04 7 V LPWATC H: ALE RT: VW( #047) AutoVLP -failo ver: SV LP is not al ive! Meaning The V LP logs that the SVLP is not availab le. Response The S ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 532

    532 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXVW05 3 V LPWATC H: NOTICE : VW(#05 3) AutoVL P-Fail over: sys tem erro r of getx2k vp()! Meaning An err or occurr ed while che cking the li cense. Response Check the li cense. SXVW05 4 V LPWATC H: NOT ICE: VW (#054) AutoVL P-Fail over: e rror o f %d=g etx2kvp() ! Meaning An ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 533

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 533 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXVW05 8 VLP WATCH: ALERT: V W(#058 ) AutoVL P-Fail over: LA N_1 con nection is DOWN on S VLP; Failo ver not fun ctiona l! Meaning The SV LP has no conn ection to the exter nal LAN. The AutoVLP failov er function is not wor- king. Response Inv estigate and correc t the LAN c on ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 534

    534 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXVW06 4 VLP WATCH: NOTICE : VW(# 064) Au toVLP- Failover: only one mir ror-si de is accessi ble wait ma ximum %d mi nutes to see an updat e of the time stamp of SV LP Meaning In the boot phas e it is detec ted that onl y one mirr or side is a vailable. The situation and the t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 535

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 535 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines SXVW06 8 V LPWATC H: ALER T: VW( #068) AutoVLP -Failo ver: in ternal or ext ernal LA N conne ction is not co nfigure d! Meaning The i nterna l or external LAN conne ction is broken. The funct ion canno t work pro perly . Response Check the LA N connectio n and make sure i t wor ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 536

    536 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message lines Explanatio n of cons ole message s SXVW07 3 V LPWATC H: ALER T: VW(# 073) Au toVLP-F ailove r: VLPw atch on <isp_n ame> is ru nning, commu nicati on to <i sp_name > is de fective (inter nal LAN or Brok er on <isp _name> down)! Meaning VLPwatch o n the SV LP is r unning, b ut commun ication to ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 537

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 537 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Message lines 9.2.29 SXVX... (V eritas File Sys tem) SXVX00 1 W ARNING : vxfs : vx_id elxwri _done - inode 487921 on /u sr had a write error at offset 147 456 Meaning When tr ying to wr ite FS meta informat ion (i.e. inodes ) to disk , an IO error happened. The file de noted by the ino de nu ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 538

    538 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message complexes Explana tion of co nsole me ssages 9.3 M essa ge complex es 9.3.1 Timeout on the RAID disk arra y SXSB00 7 f cpal0 (sadm1 2): tim eout o n targe t <t> lun <l> CDB . ...F C 0 00 01 8 0 00 ALERT 0007b7 90: fc _send _fcp : FCP_AB ORT ... 0007b 790: res ponse: er ror = 0x03, vendor = 0x1 6, expl = 0 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 539

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 539 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Messa ge complexes 9.3.2 Timeout on the MTC drives SXSB00 7 a dsl1 ( sadm<n >): tim eout o n targe t <t> lun <l> CDB . ... ALERT or SXSB0 07 adsl2 (s adm<n+ 1>) : timeou t on targ et <t> lun <l> CD B .... ALERT follo wed by WARNI NG: (adsl ,3rd) Ad aptec A ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 540

    540 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message complexes Explana tion of co nsole me ssages 9.3.3 Failure of RAID sy stems SXVD00 1 v drv<n> (FAIL OVER): switch 0:40-> 1:41 SXVD00 1 v drv<n> (FAIL OVER): switch 1:41-> 0:40 SXVD00 2 v drv<n> (FAILOVE R): Erro r exit 0130 002A E54 EC000 Meaning Both RAI D control lers hav e f ailed. A f ailo ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 541

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 541 Explana tion of co nsole me ssages Messa ge complexes 9.3. 4 F ailov er at t he RAID sy stem SXSD01 8 s hd<k>t <ctl>: Target vanis hed or SXSD01 5 s hd<k>t <ctl>: cmd "Write or Read" @ blk <numb er> key "N ot Ready" (0x02) asc "Driv e Not Ready " (0x04) ascq 0x02 WAR ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 542

    542 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Message complexes Explana tion of co nsole me ssages 9.3.5 B us Reset f or SCSI Control ler SXCM0 01 chim1 (s adm9): SCSI -Bus res et None SXSB0 01 chim1 (s adm9): SCSI -Bus res et None SXSB0 05 chim1 (s adm9): RESE TTING CO NTROL LER None Meaning A bus reset w as tr iggere d f or SCSI c ontroller 9 (in this example, chim/ A ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 543

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 543 10 Wast e disposal and recyc l ing Centr icStor is a pr oduct wi th a long life . The de cisive factors here are not just the e xpansi on options but also the qual ity . Howe v er dev elop ment is ongoi ng. Amoun ts of data which ca n hardly be f orese en today will hav e to be processed i n the futur e. The demands o n stora ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 544

    Eine Dokuschab lone v on F rank Flachenec k er b y f .f . 1992 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 545

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 545 11 Contacting the Help De sk The tele phone numbers for the Fujitsu Sie mens Compute rs Help Desk can be found at the fo llowing URL: http://www .fujitsu- siemens.com/helpdes k When you c all, please hav e the ser ial number of y our device av ailable. ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 546

    Eine Dokuschab lone v on F rank Flachenec k er b y f .f . 1992 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 547

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 547 12 Append ix 12.1 Integration of CentricStor V3.1 in SNMP This document descr ibes how Centr icStor c an be moni tored usin g SNMP . W hat does th e system a dministrator need to con figure on the Centric Stor side for this pur pos e, and what can be monitored? An ins tallation pa ckage is av ailable from F SC specifi cally f ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 548

    548 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Integration of CentricS tor V3.1 in SNMP Appendi x 12.1.2 A ctiv ating SNMP on CentricStor 12.1.2.1 Configuring SNMP under CentricStor The Ce ntricS tor system’ s VLP establishes the connecti on to the outsi de worl d. Conse- quen tly SNMP on ly needs to be con figured on th is proces sor . If a standby VL P e xists (VLP 1 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 549

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 549 Appen dix Integration of Centri cStor V3.1 in SNMP 12.1.3 M onitoring CentricStor 12.1.3.1 GXCC as a monitoring tool without SNMP This item is totally independent of SNMP a nd indic ates that GX CC is fun damentally an effective monitori ng tool. GXCC a nd XTCC togeth er with Tcl/Tk must be insta lled from the GUI CD suppl ie ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 550

    550 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Integration of CentricS tor V3.1 in SNMP Appendi x With it a simple state ment can be provided on t he operating c ondition of Cen tricS tor: turquo ise: Cent ricSto r is worki ng (OK) yellow: Cent ricSto r is work ing with re stric tions (degraded, att ention) pink: Cent ric Stor is in f a il state The “G lobal Sys tem St ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 551

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 551 Appen dix Integration of Centri cStor V3.1 in SNMP 12.1.3.3 C entricStor G lobal System Stat e Every 300 second s the Gl obal System State (see the s ectio n “G XCC as a moni toring to ol without S NMP” on pag e 549 ) of Centr icStor is sent vi a a trap . It is not m eaningf ul to writ e this trap o nto the SNMP Manag eme ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 552

    552 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Integration of CentricS tor V3.1 in SNMP Appendi x 12.1.3.6 M onitoring of CentricStor V2/V3.0 and V3.1 If an SNMP Managem ent Statio n is requi red to monito r a Centr icStor V3.1 a nd a Centr icStor V 2/V3.0 s imultaneous ly , the f o llowing ap plies: On the Man agement Stati on the GUI CD of Centr icStor V3. 1 is read in ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 553

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 553 Appen dix Integration of Centri cStor V3.1 in SNMP 12.1.4.2 I nstallation of the CA Unicent er extensions for CentricStor T ools for adding and deleti ng CA Unicen ter e x tensions were sto red under Star t -> Pr ograms -> Fuj itsu Siemen s Computers -> T ape Control Center -> Setup throug h the ins tallation of t ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 554

    554 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Integration of CentricS tor V3.1 in SNMP Appendi x 12.1.5 W orking with CA Unic enter and CentricStor 12.1.5.1 C entricSt or icon under CA Unicenter The following icon was s elected for Centr icStor in 3 -D f or mat: It conta ins the texts Fujits u Siemens a nd Centr icStor. In the Wor ldView tree you see th e Centri cStor s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 555

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 555 Appen dix Integration of Centri cStor V3.1 in SNMP In 2D form at Centr icStor i s represente d as follo ws: The Glo bal System State trap i s automatic ally set to green, yellow or red. 12.1.5.2 Identifying a CentricStor and assigning the icon After t he add-ons ha ve been activated wi th Add CentricStor to CA Unicen ter , a ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 556

    556 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Integration of CentricS tor V3.1 in SNMP Appendi x 12.1.5.3 R eceipt an d preparatio n of a Centr icStor trap On recei pt of Centr icStor t r aps, mess ages are outpu t on the Event Console. The sta ndard traps (e.g. col dStar t) are issued wit hout spec ial preparation and appear on the E v ent Consol e with the l ead text ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 557

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 557 Appen dix Integration of Centri cStor V3.1 in SNMP 12.1.5.4 Monitoring CentricStor using ping and MIB-II All ob jects en tered in CA Unicenter are automat ically moitored by mean s of ping and MIB-II . This requi res that the a gent “Mib2” wo rks with th e right community . The admi nistrator mus t make any nece ssar y ad ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 558

    558 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 E-mail support in CentricStor Appe ndix 12.2 E-mail suppo rt in CentricStor 12.2.1 Sendmail configuration sendm ail is star ted onl y if the confi guration fi le /etc/ mail/sendmail. cf e x ists. This fi le is not gene rated, but under cer tain co nditions it is modif ied to correc t errors. Dur ing in stallation a sample fi ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 559

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 559 Appen dix E-mail support in CentricStor – In the fi le /etc/netconfig , the entr ies which hav e “ inet” in the 4th column must be comple mented by the en try “ ,/usr /lib/resolv.s o ” in the last (7th) column . Example Thus (the separator is th e tabulator!) tcp tpi_c ots_or d v inet tc p /dev/t cp /usr/l ib/tcp ip ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 560

    560 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 E-mail support in CentricStor Appe ndix 12.2.3 C onfiguring the e-mail template The co nfigurable data of the e- mail can be set in e-mail-form at-specif ic config uration files. The c onfiguration fi le must be c reated by copying a sa mple file an d then be ad apted to the con ditions. If a customer -specific configuratio ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 561

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 561 Appen dix E-mail support in CentricStor The no rmal procedure is f o r an e-mail to be sent s tar ting with the error weig ht ERROR. In the cas e of the err or weights NO TICE and W ARNING, on ly v er y fe w , spe cially sele cted messa ges are offered for e-mail dispat ch, for e xample S XPL027 ( page 4 76 ), SXPL 049 ( page ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 562

    562 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T ransfer ring volumes Appendi x 12.3 T ra nsf errin g v olum es 12.3.1 Intr oduction A transfer enables L Vs to be e xpor ted fr om a Centri cStor syste m and impor t ed into anoth er Centr icStor. For the ex por t t hese L Vs are tempo rarily co pied into the special L V group TR- L V G using “plmcmd trans …” com man ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 563

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 563 Appen dix Transferri ng volumes 12.3.2 Expor t procedure 1. Co p y ing L Vs Figure 36: Cop ying an L V to TR-PVG With the ai d of the transfer-out comman d (see the sec tion “T ransfer-out” o n page 566 ), the PLM c reates an additiona l copy of the L Vs se lected for expor t in a s pecial trans f e r L VG, theTR-L VG. Th ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 564

    564 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T ransfer ring volumes Appendi x The transfer volume groups TR -L VG and TR-PV G are now rea dy f or another transf er . 3. Re moving PVs from a librar y The P Vs deter mine d abov e can now be physically r emov ed fro m the li brary using a DAS or ACSLS command (see the s ection “L ibrar y command s” on pa ge 571 ). The ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 565

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 565 Appen dix Transferri ng volumes 12.3.4 Special fe atures of th e PV G TR-PV G ● PVs in the unknown sta tus cannot b e deleted u sing plmif con f -e ... . ● No reorgan ization takes place, neither c an it be i nitiated u sing a comm and. ● Limits: PV_SCRATCH_ SOFT_MIN : not obser ved PV_SCRATCH_ HARD_MIN : 2 PV_SCRATCH_ ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 566

    566 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T ransfer ring volumes Appendi x 12.3.5 A dditional command line in terf ace (CLI) 12.3.5.1 T ransfer-out A transfer-out is initiat ed using this com mand. – The PL M cause s L Vs wh ich are lo cated in nor mal L V Gs to be copied to the spec ial L VG TR-L VG. The L Vs are not moved, which me ans that th e origi nals are s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 567

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 567 Appen dix Transferri ng volumes Example of an outpu t when no t ran sfer -out is active AZUR-V LP0 # plmif qu ery -g pos LV-Grou p PVGroup1 P VGroup2 LV s pending jo bs recover j obs 1 A P16 ====== 1001 0 0 0 2 BAS E BASE ====== 0 0 0 3 C P19 ====== 1000 0 0 0 4 D ====== ====== 0 0 0 5 TR-LV G TR-PVG ====== 0 0 0 6 ks p ===== ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 568

    568 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T ransfer ring volumes Appendi x Example of an outpu t after terminatio n of th e trans fer -out AZUR-V LP0 # plmif qu ery -g pos L V-Group PVGro up1 PV Group2 LVs pen ding j obs re cover jo bs 1 A P16 == ==== 10010 0 0 2 B ASE BASE == ==== 0 0 0 3 C P19 == ==== 10000 0 0 4 D ====== ===== = 0 0 0 5 T R-LVG TR-PV G == ==== 3 ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 569

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 569 Appen dix Transferri ng volumes If the VL M does not kn ow the L V , no restore command is issued to the PL M f or the pur pos e of actual ly reading in the L V . The PLM therefore waits f or an unlimi ted time, and no progre ss can be recognized whe n you quer y the jo bs ( plmif query -j -G T R-PVG ). Y ou can then ei ther ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 570

    570 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 T ransfer ring volumes Appendi x 12.3.5.4 R emoving an L V from a tr ansfer list This com mand enables an L V to be remov ed from the li st of L Vs to be transferred. If it has alrea dy been tran sf erred, the comma nd is reje cted. If no L V is sp ecified, the entire transfer-out is ab or ted. E xisting save requests are s ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 571

    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 571 Appen dix Transferri ng volumes 12.3.7 Library commands 12.3.7.1 A DIC library with D A S serve r Fur t her informatio n is provided in the D AS manual . 12.3.7.2 S torageT e k Librar y with ACSLS serv er Fur ther inform ation i s provided in the A CSLS manual s. 12.3.7.3 Fujitsu Library with LMF server (PLP) Fur ther infor m ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 572

    572 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix 12.4 Licenses All lic enses deal ed with the Op en Source S oftware in Cent ricStor are listed be low . 12.4.1 Xpdf, gzip GNU GENERAL PU BLIC LICENSE V e rsion 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 19 91 F ree Software Foundation, In c. 59 T empl e Place - S uite 330, Bos ton, MA 02111- 1307, USA. Everyone i s ...

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    574 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix b) Y ou must cause any work that you d istribute or pu b lish, that in whol e or in par t con- tains or is derived from the Pr ogram or any par t thereo f , to be licensed as a whole at no cha rge to all th ird par ti es under the ter ms of this License. c) If the mod ified program nor mally reads comm and ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 579 Appen dix Licenses 12.4.2 Firebir d INTERBASE PUBLIC LICENSE V e rsion 1.0 1. De fini tion s. 1.0. 1. “ Commercial Use ” mean s distr ibution or otherwise mak ing the Covered Code av ai - lable to a thir d par ty . 1.1. “Contrib utor ” means ea ch entity tha t creates o r contributes to the creation o f Mo- dificati o ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 585 Appen dix Licenses 6.4 Origin of the Inter base Public License . The Inte rbase public lic ense is based on the Moz illa Public Lice nse V 1.1 with the following change s: 1. The l icense is pu b lished by Borland Software Cor po ration. Only Bo rland S oft- ware Cor poration c an modify the ter ms applic able to Cov ered Cod ...

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    588 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix EXHIBIT A - I nterBase Public License . ``The contents of this file are subjec t to the Inte rbase Public Licens e V ersi on 1.0 (the “Li- cense ”); you ma y not us e this file except in complia nce with the Licens e. Y ou may obtain a copy of the Licen se at http://www .Interbase.com/IP L.html Softwar ...

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    592 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix THE SOFTW ARE IS PR O VIDED “AS IS”, WITH OUT W A RRAN TY OF ANY K IND , EX- PRESS OR IM PLIED , INCLU DING BUT NO T LIMI TED T O THE W ARRANTIES OF ME R- CHANT ABILITY , FIT -NESS FOR A P AR TICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT . IN NO E VENT SHAL L THE D ANIEL VEILL ARD BE L IABLE FO R ANY C LAIM, D A ...

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    594 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix 29. [3 2]Louis A. M amakos <loui e@ni.umd.edu > MD5-ba sed authe ntication 30. [33]La rs H. Mathie sen <thor inn@di ku.dk> adaptat ion of foundation c ode f or V e rsion 3 as spe cified in RFC-13 05 31. [34]Da nny Ma yer <ma yer@ntp .org>N etwork I /O , Windows P or t, Code Maintenance 32 ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 597 Appen dix Licenses 12.4. 8 openss h This file is par t of the Ope nSSH sof tware. The li cences whic h component s of this software f al l under are as follows. First, we will sum- mar ize and say that all c omponents are und er a BSD li cence, or a li cence mo re free than that. OpenS SH contai ns no GPL cod e. 1. * Cop yrig ...

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    598 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix The le gal status of this pro gram is some co mbination of all the se per missions and rest- ri ctions. Use onl y at your own respon sibility . Y ou will be respons ible f or any legal c on- sequenc es yourself; I am not ma king any claims w hether posse ssing or using th is is le- gal or not in your coun ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 599 Appen dix Licenses * Ari el Futo ransky <futo@ core-s di.com> * <ht tp://ww w.core -sdi.co m> 3. s sh-ke yscan was co ntri b uted by David Mazie res under a BSD-style l icense. * Cop yright 1995, 1996 by David Mazier es <dm @lcs.m it.edu> . * * Mod ificati on and redist ributi on in s ource and bi nary fo rm ...

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    600 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix * 3. Neith er the nam e of the Univ ersity no r the names of its cont ributor s * may be use d to e ndorse or pro mote pr oducts deriv ed from this so ftware * withou t specif ic prior wr itten pe rmissio n. * * THI S SOFTW ARE IS PROVID ED BY THE REG ENTS A ND CON TRIBUTO RS ``AS IS'' AN D * ANY ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 601 Appen dix Licenses Network s Asso ciates T e chnology , Inc . Sola r Design er T odd C. Miller W a yne Schr oeder Willia m Jone s Darren T ucker Sun Mi cros ystems The SCO Group * Red istribu tion a nd use in sou rce and binar y form s, with or with out * modifi cation , are permi tted pro vided tha t the follo wing con ditio ...

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    602 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix c) Com patibility code (o penbsd-com pat) Apar t f rom the previousl y mentio ned licens es, v ariou s pieces o f code in the open- bsd-comp at/ subdirec tor y are lic ensed as follows: Some co de is li censed unde r a 3-ter m BS D license, to the following copyright h ol- ders: T odd C. Miller Theo de Raa ...

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    604 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix 12.4. 9 openss l LICENSE ISSUES The O penSSL t oolkit stays under a dual lic ense, i.e. both the conditio ns of the Op enSSL License an d the ori ginal SSLeay license apply to the toolkit. See below f or the actual li cense texts. Actually both licens es are BSD -style Open Source licens es . In cas e of a ...

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    606 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix * 2. Redistr ibutio ns in b inary form mu st rep roduce the ab ove copy right * notice , this lis t of condit ions and th e follow ing discl aimer in the * docume ntatio n and/or ot her mate rials pro vided wi th the dist ributio n. * 3. All adv ertisi ng mate rials mention ing fe atures or use of this sof ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 607 Appen dix Licenses 12.4 .10 tcl Copyright : This s oftware is copyright ed by the Regents of the University o f California, Sun Microsy s- tems, Inc., S cripti cs Cor poration, and o ther par tie s. The f ollowing ter ms app ly to all files as- soci ated with the software unl ess explicitly disclaim ed in indi vidual files. T ...

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    608 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Licenses A ppendix 12.4 .11 tk Copyright : This s oftware is copyright ed by the Regents of the University o f California, Sun Microsy s- tems, Inc., a nd other pa r ties. The following ter ms appl y to all fil es associ ated with the so ft- ware unles s explicitly di sclaimed in ind ividual fil es. The au thors hereby grant ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 609 Glossary A utoVLP failo v er func tion As the VLP Mas ter pla y s a central role in the C entri cStor syste m, f ailure of the VLP Maste r also ca uses the enti re system to f ail. T o p re vent this, a standby Stand b y VLP ( SVLP ) can be integrated into the system as a backup compute r . This SVLP is inactive except f or t ...

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    610 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Glossar y Distribute and Activate ➟ DNA Distributed T ape V ol ume File Syst em ➟ DTV FS DNA The Dist ri b ute a nd A ctiv ate (DNA) fu nction must be inv oked in GXCC ev e ry time a change is made to the confi guration of the Centri cStor syst em. This en sures t hat the new configuration is distr ibuted to and activate ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 611 Glossa ry The FC Layer Model h as 5 la yers which h a ve the f ollowing nam es: – FC-0 (Ph ysical La yer) – FC-1 ( Data Link Layer , coding /decoding the sign als to be transferred) – FC-2 ( Network Lay er , fl ow control, ser vice classes) – FC-3 ( Common Se rv ices Lay er , e.g. multicast, str iping) – FC-4 ( Prot ...

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    612 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Glossar y Header At the s tar t of each physical tape wr itten by Centr icStor ther e is an 80- byte header foll owed by a Ta p e m a r k . ICP In the Centr icStor system the ICP is the i nterf ace to the hos t systems c onnected. These are co nnected us ing ESCON , FICON or FCP . The ICP ’ s pr incipal ta sk is to emul at ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 613 Glossa ry VLP ISP which has neither a host nor a device por t. Some cen tral managemen t proc esse s, i n particula r VLM und PLM , run on this ISP . A Centr icSto r system c an contai n two VLP- ISPs. The cent r al m anagement processe s then only run o n one of these, the VLP Mast er . The othe r , the Sta ndby VLP ( SVLP ) ...

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    614 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Glossar y Messag e Manager ➟ MSGM GR MSGMG R Exists o nce in Ce ntricS tor . Fil ters and saves the ISPs’ s ystem mes sages and i mple- ments pr edefined me asures ( e.g. ser vice call, s ends SMS, etc.) . The MSG MGR is also respon sible f or forwarding the sy stem mes sages to the user inter f ace. PERFLOG Exists o nce ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 615 Glossa ry Redundant Arra y of Independent Disks ➟ RAID system Reorgani sation Depen ding on the configuratio n paramters, th e logica l v olume s ( LV s) sav e d on the ph ysical vo lumes ( PV s) are aut omatical ly copied on to other physical volume s ( PV s) of the same ph ysical volume group ( PV G ). This is done for th ...

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    616 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Glossar y Syst em Adm inis trato r Edi tio n ➟ SAE T ape F ile System ➟ TFS Ta p e m a r k A tapemark identifie s the end of a header or logical volume ( LV ) on a ph ysica l ta pe. T ape V o lume Cache ➟ TVC TFS In Centr icStor V 3.1D a T a pe F ile System (TFS) is a file sy stem of the type dtvf s ( DTVFS ) in whic h ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 617 Glossa ry VLP M ast er The V LP Master is an IS P of the ty pe VLP in which the central management processe s, such a s VLM and PL M, are active. VLP is s ometimes us ed as a sy nonym f or VLP Maste r . VLS The tap e archives emulated in Ce ntricStor are referred to as V irtual Lib rary Servic es (VLS). Dependin g on the ty p ...

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    618 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Glossar y VTC VTC is b oth an ISP type and the na me of the smal lest Cent ricSto r mode l, wh ich consists of precis ely one ISP of this t ype. Like an ICP_IDP i t combin es the attr ibutes of an IC P , IDP and VLP . In contrast to the ICP_IDP i t is equipped wi th additional boards. These b oards and a n inter nal RAID con ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 619 Figures Figure 1: Co n ventional host r obot system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Figure 2: Ho st robot sys tem with Cen tricStor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Figure 3: E xample of a C entric Stor configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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    620 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Figures Figure 23: Examp le of a Centr icStor mirror system with 3 RAID mirror pai rs . . . . . . . . 57 Figure 24: Pr imar y and secon dar y caches in a RAID mirro r pair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Figure 25: Present ation of the mirror functio n in GXCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Figure 26 ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 621 Abbreviation s Abbreviation Long f orm Explanation 3490E 3 6-T rack Drive from IBM 3490F 3 6-T rack Drive from IBM = B erino, successor o f 3490E 3590 128- T rac k Dri v e from IBM = Magstar , = SNI 35 91 3590E 2 56-T rack Drive from IBM = succes sor of M agstar 3592 512- T rac k Dri v e (=Jagu- ar) from IBM Succ essor to the ...

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    622 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Abbrev iations CSV Comma Sepa r ated Va l u e s CSW Console Switc h CTL Control, T arget, LU N Relates to SCSI de vice CU Control Unit DA S Distr ibuted AML Ser ver I nterface to contr ol AML Robot s (Ope n Systems) DA S D Direct A ccess Storage De vice In CS s ystem usual ly the TVC DLD SW0 Dual-Labeled , Dual- Sided, Wr it ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 623 Abbreviations FW Firmware GXCC Globa l Extend ed Control Cen ter User i nterface f or Centr icStor i ncludin g admi- nistration , ser vice a nd monitor ing in Centr icStor V3.x GXTCC Globa l Extend ed T ape Control Cen ter User i nterface f or Centr icStor i ncludin g admi- nistration , ser vice a nd monitor ing in Cen- tricS ...

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    624 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Abbrev iations MCP Master Con trol Proc ess MD Mount Dae mon MIB Management Inf or ma tion B ase MIM Media Infor mation Mess age Messa ge for a defective car tr idge, only 3590 - x/3592 MBK Magnetbandk assette (Ger man) Magn etic tape car tr idge MM Multi Mod e MSGMG R Message M anager On e instance i n Centri cStor . Filter ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 625 Abbreviations RAI D Redundan t Arra y of Independ ent (Ine xpensiv e) Disks RMT Remote Moni toring a nd Adminis tration Centr icStor expansi on f or whic h a licens e is requ ired ROBA R Robot Archive ROBAR-SW al lows BS2000 to talk to an AML/x tape roboter RPL M Recov er y PLM SAE System Admin istr ator Editi on SAE ena b le ...

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    626 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Abbrev iations TVC T ape V olum e Cache Fi le system on RAID system(s) which con- tain(s ) the L Vs i n the form of fi les. The ISPs access d iff erent L Vs at th e same time . UFS Unix File System UPS Uninterr uptable P ower Suppl y VA C S Vir tua l A CSLS E mulates an A CSLS to th e host. VA M U Vir t ual AML Managem ent U ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 627 Related pu blicat ions The ma nuals are a vailable as online manuals, see http://manual s.fujitsu-sieme ns.com , or in pr inted for m which must be paid and o rdered sep arately at h ttp://FSC-manuals hop .com . [1] SINIX -2000 V8.0/ V8.1/V8.5 Installation, Operation and Administration User Gui de Ta r g e t g r o u p The ma ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 628

    628 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Related publications [3] RO B AR 3.0 B (BS2000/O SD , S INIX) T ap e Cart ridge Archiving System User Gui de T arget gr oup Comp uter centers wor kin g with the ABB A robot sy stem (CC sta ff, in par ticul ar system admini strators and archivers), ROBAR users Conte nts The ma nual descr ibes the ROBA R software produ ct that ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 629 Inde x 3490 emulati on function menu 38 5 global fu nctions 390 object i nf or mation 38 4 Show E rror Log 389 Show Error /T ransfer Statistic s 386 Show P ath T race 388 Show Shor t T race 387 3595-RMT 91 A Absolu te Min. PV G 286 Account Da emon 43 7 A CCOUNTD functions 437 object i nf or mation 43 7 account ing 59 Accounti ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 630

    630 U41117-J-Z125-7- 76 Index B Balloon Help 242 Balloon Help Sum mary Emulations 24 3 Ph ysical De vices 244 Ph ysical Li br ary Processe s 244 Vir tua l Librar y Processe s 243 BASE logical v olu me group 174 ph ysical v olume g roup 18 1 basic har dware 234 bloc k diagram GXCC 126 XTCC 352 bl oc k siz e 28 button bar 123 C CA Unicenter 552 cache ...

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    U41117-J-Z125-7-76 631 Index D DA S 50 DA S s e r ve r 571 data PVG show 285 show all 284 Delete snapsho ts 200 diagnos tic data 197 direct or y 36 Dir ty Limit 178 disast er 476 recover y 283 Down/Up Sequence 399 dri v es b loc k siz es 28 cleanin g 81 Dual Sav e 50 , 71 Dual Sav e Dir ty L imit 178 E e-mail suppor t 558 EMT A PE 48 emulations Glo ...

  • Alpine pmn - page 632

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