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Contents

5.2.3

GXCC in other systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

5.2.4

Screen display requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

5.2.5

Managing CentricStor via SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

5.2.5.1

Connection to SNMP management systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

5.2.5.2

SNMP and GXCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

5.3

Starting GXCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

5.3.1

Differences to earlier CentricStor versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

5.3.2

Command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

5.3.2.1

Explanation of the start parameter -aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

5.3.3

Environment variable XTCC_CLASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

5.3.4

Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

5.3.4.1

Optional access control for Observe mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

5.3.4.2

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

5.3.4.3

Suppressing the password query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

5.3.4.4

Additional password query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

5.3.5

Starting the CentricStor console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

5.3.6

Starting from an X11 server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

5.3.6.1

General notes on the X11 server architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

5.3.6.2

Using the direct XDMCP interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

5.3.6.3

Starting from a UNIX system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

5.3.6.4

Starting from a Windows system via Exceed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

5.3.6.5

Starting from a Windows/NT system via XVision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

5.3.7

GXCC welcome screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

5.3.8

Selecting the CentricStor system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

5.3.9

Establishing a connection after clicking on OK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

5.3.10

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

5.3.11

Software updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

GXCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

6.1

Main window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

6.1.1

Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

6.1.2

Loss of a connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

6.1.3

Elements of the GXCC main window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

6.1.3.1

Title bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

6.1.3.2

Footer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

6.1.3.3

Function buttons and displays in the button bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

6.1.3.4

System information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

6.1.3.5

Console messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

6.1.3.6

Function bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

6.1.4

Message window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

6.1.5

Asynchronous errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Summary of Contents for CentricStor V3.1D

Page 1: ...Edition July 2007 CentricStor V3 1D User Guide...

Page 2: ...s created to meet the regulations of a quality management system which complies with the requirements of the standard DIN EN ISO 9001 2000 cognitas Gesellschaft f r Technik Dokumentation mbH www cogni...

Page 3: ...grated Channel Processor 28 2 2 1 3 IDP Integrated Device Processor 29 2 2 1 4 ICP_IDP or IUP Integrated Universal Processor 29 2 2 2 RAID systems for the Tape Volume Cache 30 2 2 3 FibreChannel FC 31...

Page 4: ...ession 48 2 9 2 Multiple library support 49 2 9 3 Dual Save 50 2 9 4 Extending virtual drives 52 2 9 5 System administrator s edition 52 2 9 6 Fibre channel connection for load balancing and redundanc...

Page 5: ...ystem administrator activities 72 4 3 2 1 Assigning a logical volume group to two physical volume groups 72 4 3 2 2 Removing a Dual Save assignment 72 4 4 Reorganization 73 4 4 1 Why do we need reorga...

Page 6: ...ting from an X11 server 102 5 3 6 1 General notes on the X11 server architecture 102 5 3 6 2 Using the direct XDMCP interface 104 5 3 6 3 Starting from a UNIX system 104 5 3 6 4 Starting from a Window...

Page 7: ...e 139 6 1 14 2 Show data fcswitch Name of the switch trap 139 6 1 15 Information about the FC connections 140 6 1 16 Information on the archive systems 140 6 1 17 ISP system messages 141 6 1 18 SNMP m...

Page 8: ...Volumes 211 6 2 9 10 Logical Volume Operations Erase Logical Volumes 213 6 2 9 11 Physical Volume Operations 215 6 2 9 12 Physical Volume Operations Show Physical Volumes 215 6 2 9 13 Physical Volume...

Page 9: ...stics Logical Components 267 7 6 2 5 Statistics Logical Components Logical Drives 268 7 6 2 6 Statistics Logical Components Logical Volumes physical view 271 7 6 2 7 Statistics Logical Components Logi...

Page 10: ...310 7 7 6 2 Tape pool values 313 7 7 7 Exporting history data 314 7 7 8 Command line tool for generating the history data 316 8 XTCC 325 8 1 General 325 8 2 Margins of the main XTCC window 328 8 2 1...

Page 11: ...tor User Guide 350 8 3 7 6 CentricStor Service Manual 351 8 4 Elements of the XTCC window 352 8 4 1 Display 352 8 4 2 Unexpected errors 354 8 4 3 Message window 354 8 4 4 Object related functions 355...

Page 12: ...mer 377 8 7 1 4 SCSI controller 378 8 7 1 5 RAID controller 378 8 7 2 Functions of the ISP internal objects 378 8 7 2 1 Hard disk CD ROM streamer all internal objects 378 8 7 2 2 SCSI controller 378 8...

Page 13: ...ns of SCSI devices 399 8 12 2 Functions for individual VTD emulations 401 8 12 2 1 Show Trace 401 8 12 3 Functions for all VTD emulations 401 8 13 Virtual SCSI drives 402 8 13 1 Object information on...

Page 14: ...mation on archive systems 418 8 20 2 SCSI Archive system functions 419 8 20 2 1 Show Mode Pages 419 8 20 2 2 Show Mode Page Details 419 8 20 2 3 Show Log Pages 419 8 20 2 4 Show Log Page Details 419 8...

Page 15: ...7 MIRRORD mirror daemon 438 8 27 1 Object information of MIRRORD 438 8 27 2 Functions of MIRRORD 438 8 28 S80D S80 daemon 439 8 28 1 Object information of S80D 439 8 28 2 Functions of S80D 439 8 29 VL...

Page 16: ...M Server Management 497 9 2 22 SXSW Software Mirror 510 9 2 23 SXTF Tape File System 510 9 2 24 SXVD Distributed Tape Volume Driver 516 9 2 25 SXVL VLM Virtual Library Manager 517 9 2 26 SXVLS VT_LS V...

Page 17: ...eipt and preparation of a CentricStor trap 556 12 1 5 4 Monitoring CentricStor using ping and MIB II 557 12 1 5 5 Calling the GXCC from the pop up menu of CA Unicenter 557 12 1 6 Monitoring of Centric...

Page 18: ...ply These Terms to Your New Programs 577 12 4 2 Firebird 579 12 4 3 Sendmail 589 12 4 4 XML 590 12 4 4 1 Licence for libxslt except libexslt 590 12 4 4 2 Licence for libexslt 591 12 4 5 NTP 592 12 4 6...

Page 19: ...irtual tape robot system knows what are referred to as virtual logical drives and virtual logical volumes The core element here consists principally of a disk system as data cache guaranteeing not onl...

Page 20: ...Systems It supplies all the information you need to commission and administer CentricStor CentricStor Virtual Tape Library This chapter describes the CentricStor hardware and software architecture It...

Page 21: ...ant CentricStor specific terms 1 3 Notational conventions This manual uses the following symbols and notational conventions to draw your attention to certain passages of text Names commands and messag...

Page 22: ...Eine Dokuschablone von Frank Flachenecker by f f 1992...

Page 23: ...in data cartridges to be mounted in a defined real tape drive As soon as the storage peripherals robots drives report that this has been completed successfully data transfer can begin In this case the...

Page 24: ...a real archive can be eliminated or avoided From the host s viewpoint the logical drives and volumes act like real storage peripherals When a mount job is issued by a mainframe application or an open...

Page 25: ...onto a physical drive and reads the logical volume into the disk cache CentricStor thus operates as a very large extremely powerful highly intelligent data buffer between the host level and the real...

Page 26: ...one or more RAID systems for the TVC Tape Volume Cache for buffering logical volumes an FC switch which is used by the ICP IDP and VLP to transfer data a CentricStor console for performing configurat...

Page 27: ...described in the following sections 2 2 1 1 VLP Virtual Library Processor The processor of the type VLP can be included twice to provide failsafe performance Only one of the two plays an active role...

Page 28: ...ble The ICP also has an internal FC board or two in the case of redundancy for connecting to the RAID disk system The main task of the ICP is to emulate physical drives to the connected host systems T...

Page 29: ...as already been written by appending a further logical volume after the last one A cartridge filled in this way with a number of logical volumes is also referred to as a stacked volume see section Adm...

Page 30: ...ms with a total of 12 equipped shelves Figure 7 2 RAID systems form the TVC In the case of the FibreCat CX3 20 for example the 300 GB FC disks used offer a net ca pacity of 900 GB per RAID group Here...

Page 31: ...age 55 is used all cache file systems are mirrored to RAID system pairs and therefore require double the disk resources The capacity is therefore reduced by 50 2 2 3 FibreChannel FC The entire flow of...

Page 32: ...essarily separate hardware components In large CentricStor configurations VTA 1500 5000 all functions are normally implemented in separate hardware components In smaller hardware configurations VTA 50...

Page 33: ...it is recommended for perfor mance reasons that you either provide a separate VLP or activate the components of the VLP on one of the IDPs since the CPU utilization is at its lowest here The use of a...

Page 34: ...s data maintenance facility stores information about where and on which physical volume each logical volume is stored VLS Virtual Library Service There may be various different instances of the VLS de...

Page 35: ...arately by the PLM for each physical volume group PVG see also section Partitioning on the basis of volume groups on page 63 Each PVG has its own scratch pool All reorganization parameters can be set...

Page 36: ...tape with sufficient storage space Figure 10 Repeated writing of a logical volume onto tape In the example above the logical volume LV0013 on physical volume PV0000 is declared invalid and is written...

Page 37: ...limit the PLM automatically performs a reorganization by using the VLM to load any logical volumes still valid into the RAID system and then so to speak moving them piecemeal onto scratch tapes Figure...

Page 38: ...umes LV0000 to LV2000 These volumes still do not contain any data 2 The names VSNs of the physical volumes present in the robots which are to be used in CentricStor are entered in the PLM data mainten...

Page 39: ...available and whether there is a corresponding free storage space on the RAID system If the RAID system does not have enough free capacity at this point the LRU Least Recently Used procedure is employ...

Page 40: ...d The data of the logical volume LV0005 is loaded from the tape drive into the RAID system e A flag is set in the VLM data maintenance to indicate that the logical volume LV0005 is in the RAID system...

Page 41: ...atch tape or a tape onto which writing has not yet resulted in an overflow If this cartridge is not yet mounted the PLM checks whether a real drive is available in the robot archive at this point c Th...

Page 42: ...ors when an attempt is made to access the other data In this case the data is not lost When a subsequent normal mount is performed it is available again CentricStor performs a scratch mount under the...

Page 43: ...ee the section Logical Volume Groups on page 173 The LV size of an existing LVG cannot be decreased see the section Logical Volume Groups on page 173 The size of the LVG TR LVG cannot be modified see...

Page 44: ...r applications on one and the same magnetic tape cartridge can be prevented The volume group concept is a prerequisite for Dual Save see the section Dual Save on page 50 2 8 2 Call Home in the event o...

Page 45: ...rting tape cartridges physical volumes which are offered by CentricStor can be used for various purposes Storing the backup data at a disaster proof location e g in a fire resistant room or at a large...

Page 46: ...ganization see section Reorganization on page 73 2 8 4 2 Transfer PVG A so called transfer PVG and a transfer LVG which is linked to this are permanently installed in CentricStor for this export impor...

Page 47: ...are possible In addition to the basic configuration optional functions are available which allow you to customize the CentricStor functionality to suit your needs Compression Multiple library support...

Page 48: ...to the fact that the load on the FC network is reduced by the compression factor In the case of data quantities greater than 900 MB the number of logical volumes is reduced Example Standard To save a...

Page 49: ...up data is supplied in compressed format by a NetWorker client then compression should be switched off for this logical volume on the ICP so that the load on the CPU of the ICP can be kept to a minimu...

Page 50: ...e Dual Local Save or in a remote robot archive Dual Remote Save This ensures the highest possible level of data security If a physical volume which usually contains a large number of logical volumes i...

Page 51: ...1 PV0001 PV0300 and PVG 2 PV0301 PV0600 in the robot Archive1 The logical volumes of LVG 2 LV3001 LV6000 are duplicated in Archive1 on PVG 3 PV0701 PV0800 and in Archive2 on PVG 4 PV0801 PV0900 where...

Page 52: ...ransfer This enables operation to be continued without interruption even when a switch fails in normal operation the data stream is distributed to both switches 2 9 7 Automatic VLP failover Typically...

Page 53: ...ure 18 Failure of the VLP The SVLP is active in the system and monitoring the VLP If the VLP fails the SVLP takes over control of CentricStor 2 The SVLP is activated automatically Figure 19 Activation...

Page 54: ...ver status on the GUI The left hand triangle is only displayed if an SVLP is configured If the left hand triangle below the VLP is green this means that AutoVLP failover is activated If it is red Auto...

Page 55: ...are supported i e a maximum of 4 RAID system pairs can be set up for mirroring By definition a RAID system pair can only be set up when the following conditions apply The RAID IDs begin with an odd ID...

Page 56: ...d for this purpose Example After the mirror key has been read into a CentricStor system with 6 RAID systems the following configuration is established Figure 22 Genuine and potential RAID mirror pairs...

Page 57: ...corresponding assignment of the LUNs as shown in the example where x is in the range 0 through 7 below Assignment of the LUNs for DTV caches cache 1st RAID 2nd RAID P x 0 S x 8 P x 1 S x 9 P x 2 S x 1...

Page 58: ...Figure 25 Presentation of the mirror function in GXCC Genuine RAID pairs are indicated with a white dot potential pairs by a thicker black line between the boxes on the right hand side The display can...

Page 59: ...his function permits the accounting data of logical volume groups to be displayed in GXCC see the section Statistics Usage Accounting on page 293 Example On the other hand this function enables the cu...

Page 60: ...Eine Dokuschablone von Frank Flachenecker by f f 1992...

Page 61: ...ce must be followed when switching on the individual CentricStor components 1 Switch on the LAN hubs and switches see corresponding operating instructions 2 Switch on the fibre channel switches see co...

Page 62: ...ode is explained in the CentricStor Service Manual only a brief description is provided below The following sequence must be followed when switching off the individual CentricStor components 1 BS2000...

Page 63: ...ous host systems or applications on different physical volumes In the case of Dual Save1 it allows you to store copies of a logical volume on two different physical volumes This offers an extra degree...

Page 64: ...with an archive system By grouping volumes it is hoped to achieve a situation where BS2000 data and UNIX data are stored on different physical volumes The logical volumes of the BS2000 host are assig...

Page 65: ...rives of a single type A physical library can contain several physical volume groups 4 1 3 System administrator activities This section contains brief information on the main system administrator acti...

Page 66: ...and detailed information are provided in the section Physical Volume Groups on page 181 1 Click on the NEW button 2 A large number of entries need to be made The description of the individual fields i...

Page 67: ...igning an LVG to a PVG The form and detailed information are provided in the section Physical Volume Opera tions Link Unlink Volume Groups on page 221 The following elements must be selected the logic...

Page 68: ...being released by the host The form and detailed information are provided in the section Logical Volume Opera tions Erase Logical Volumes on page 213 The following information must be specified the V...

Page 69: ...g on off a preceding reorganization The physical volumes are then removed from the CentricStor pool They are no longer used and can be removed from the library 4 1 3 11 Removing physical volume groups...

Page 70: ...e used to ensure that volumes are at a particular location or on a particular RAID system Cache residence of the volumes The volumes are always in the cache file system Benefit Access to volumes of an...

Page 71: ...to use the Dual Save function you must have at least two physical volume groups see section Partitioning on the basis of volume groups on page 63 If this prerequisite is fulfilled the Dual Save funct...

Page 72: ...l and Copy The logical volumes are then saved to two different physical volume groups 4 3 2 2 Removing a Dual Save assignment Before using this function all logical volumes must be removed from the gr...

Page 73: ...different physical volume The old version of the logical volume then becomes invalid Over time the second situation in particular causes a build up of invalid logical volumes on a physical volume If...

Page 74: ...cal volumes cannot be copied directly from one tape to another they are stored temporarily in the TVC as follows 1 The PLM selects a logical volume on the physical volume which is to be reorganized an...

Page 75: ...e fulfilled The number of scratch tapes falls below the hard minimum specified in the GXCC menu Physical Volume Groups see page 187 There are read tapes present with any occupancy level If the number...

Page 76: ...igured percentage value Fill Grade parameter When the hard minimum is fallen below and at the same time physical volumes in faulty or inaccessible status or which have reached the refreshing age exist...

Page 77: ...uration parameter Write Throughput When the two estimated values are configured it must be borne in mind that these do not depend solely on the hardware characteristics of the tape drives but also to...

Page 78: ...ow occupancy level of the physical volumes is more probable than a medium occupancy level and the tape backup is therefore more efficient However as a result the number of mount requests during reorga...

Page 79: ...off peak period Default 10 00 14 00 Soft Minimum The minimum number of physical volumes scratch tapes which if fallen below automatically triggers a reorganization process Default 30 Recommendation E...

Page 80: ...When this value is reached subsequent Move requests must wait Default 5 Move Cancel Time The PLM monitors the progress of the reorganization of a physical volume This value specified in seconds is us...

Page 81: ...pecial interface to the MAGSTAR drives that allow it to see a clean request from the MAGSTAR drives the system administrator must regularly check the operating panel of the MAGSTAR drives MAGSTAR driv...

Page 82: ...modify the files Exceptions If the first NTP server VTLS Message Manager is to be configured as the NTP client of an NTP server in an external LAN the appropriate entry must be made by hand in the et...

Page 83: ...toring and operation is carried out on two levels by GXCC and XTCC Figure 29 GXCC XTCC on the CentricStor ISPs example VTA 2000 5000 CentricStor CentricStor console FICON ESCON ESCON SCSI SCSI SCSI SC...

Page 84: ...s 95 98 NT 2000 XP LINUX SOLARIS and SINIX Z 5 1 2 Principles of operation of GXCC As shown in the figure below the CentricStor user interface is represented by the interaction of three components Inf...

Page 85: ...d there displayed on the screen In the case of a low speed data connection between CentricStor and the remote computer the large data quantities to be transferred result in performance problems Conseq...

Page 86: ...This information is then passed on to GXCC over the local CentricStor network Components managed via SNMP FC switches These components can only be controlled and monitored using SNMP mechanisms The c...

Page 87: ...e InfoBroker and the associated Request Broker All InfoBrokers in the CentricStor network have exactly the same configuration and are considered peers They provide special interfaces for communicating...

Page 88: ...associated host interface ESCON FICON FC is installed ICP MSGMGR Message Manager filters and stores system messages Triggers actions in response to certain situations e g SNMP traps Only one instance...

Page 89: ...P LAN or TCP IP connection within processor Components managed via SNMP SCSI or FC connections to drives and libraries SCSI drives SCSI libraries Remote computer PDS PLS IDP of the CentricStor network...

Page 90: ...function Access to the global status and history By default no password is required On CentricStor access control can optionally be configured for this mode Users then legitimate themselves with the I...

Page 91: ...o accept an additional connection to a GXCC outside CentricStor if this is made using a modem SLIP connection This connection is designed to be used for remote maintenance purposes 5 2 2 Expansion The...

Page 92: ...An external X11 server will require a graphics capable color monitor The ideal resolution is 1280 x 1024 Pixel The minimum requirement which must be set is 1024 x 786 Pixel In GXCC important informati...

Page 93: ...coldStart linkUp linkDown etc when system messages of priority 5 6 7 or 8 ERROR CRITICAL ALERT EMERGENCY occur CentricStor therefore sends corresponding traps to the management station In addition ev...

Page 94: ...tricStor The InfoBroker accepts a maximum of two local connections It is irrelevant here whether the X11 server runs within CentricStor using the local console or out side CentricStor on a workstation...

Page 95: ...l for GXCC and the previous start parameters will continue to function However you are urgently recommended to adapt all the settings to the new names as soon as possible 5 3 2 Command line GXCC is ca...

Page 96: ...ified Single Port con nection see page 148 nointro Splash screen suppression Reduction of the data when operating via Teleservice observe Start in Observe mode If not specified User mode profile file...

Page 97: ...t edge of the screen in pixels Y Distance of the upper window margin from the upper edge of the screen in pixels Y Distance of the lower window margin from the lower edge of the screen in pixels Examp...

Page 98: ...variable can for example be set as follows when GXCC is called XTCC_CLASS Xtcc1 gxcc unit A argumente XTCC_CLASS Xtcc2 gxcc unit B argumente 5 3 4 Passwords The following passwords are needed to star...

Page 99: ...ts file contains only the file entries gui_computer_1 xtccobsv and gui_computer_2 xtccobsv only these two computers have access without a password dialog All the others must know the password which ma...

Page 100: ...ess of the source computer must be used for host name This depends on the current operating configuration and network topology The first two entries generally differ only in that the domain name is pa...

Page 101: ...the password query on page 100 The window consists of an input field for the password and the following buttons OK The password entered is used if it is not empty Its validity is not verified the tran...

Page 102: ...ove the mouse pointer from a menu entry onto an associated cascaded submenu The submenu is then closed immediately with the result that the desired function cannot be selected In this case an alternat...

Page 103: ...and consequently the X11 server can reside on the same computer as GXCC or on a subprocessor A significantly higher transmission bandwidth is needed for the connection between GXCC and the X11 server...

Page 104: ...r IP address of the ISP 2 Remote login e g using telnet to the desired ISP of CentricStor in general this should be the VLP under the user ID tele You will need the appropriate password 3 Call GXCC us...

Page 105: ...elp information This section only describes the GXCC specific settings of Exceed Exceed preparations Open the following window by choosing Programs Exceed Xconfig Click Communication in the Xconfig wi...

Page 106: ...addressed generally the VLP The Command input field contains a sequence of commands separated by The first command indicates the host IP address and screen number of the display to be selected Followi...

Page 107: ...nnectivity Exceed and Xsession to display a selection of start files When you have selected the start file and chosen Run GXCC will be started on the selected unit However you can also drag the start...

Page 108: ...ntricStor 5 3 6 5 Starting from a Windows NT system via XVision When installing XVision the UNIX environment must also have been installed XVision setting An example is shown in the following diagram...

Page 109: ...gram below shows an example of the fonts setting The Allow font substitution option must be disabled When specifying the font path items the UNIX fonts must be listed before other fonts If different s...

Page 110: ...to ensure that Passive mode is secure Settings for the client The X11 server must be included in the host list of the computer on which the GXCC is running This can be done using the XVision Services...

Page 111: ...Command line The command line which is only partially visible in the editing area of the sample screen first starts a terminal emulation Emulations of 97801 480 or VT420 terminals are recommended as i...

Page 112: ...esponse should correspond to those shown in the example The full contents of the command line are shown in the Display tab The input field Title has no effect and should not be used If you need the ti...

Page 113: ...save this data by setting the terminal emulation as appropriate Manual start via terminal emulation Define the settings for the host as described above In the case of a manual start however incomplete...

Page 114: ...tivate the saved settings and establish the connection 5 3 7 GXCC welcome screen When a connection is setup up successfully to the X11 server a welcome screen appears but not if the nointro parameter...

Page 115: ...he ISP s Request Broker Authentication is then performed immediately see section Authentication on page 117 If an IP address or the unit name of a VLP is transferred in the start parameters GXCC will...

Page 116: ...elected in the list If this is not possible an error message will be displayed As soon as you acknowledge this message the Unit Select menu will reappear Once the connection has been established GXCC...

Page 117: ...ion Passwords on page 98 when operating in Observe mode Characters in the password which you enter are displayed as Any authorization User or Observe will be passed on to any downstream applications e...

Page 118: ...informed via a window that the InfoBroker has more recent versions When you acknowledge this message the newer version is passed to your local system and saved under Windows the user must be logged on...

Page 119: ...no relation to the actual appearance of the product The main window consits of the following areas from top to bottom Title bar Function bar Line with special function buttons and information Title b...

Page 120: ...isplayed are invalid during this waiting period On the function bar only Unit selection of another CentricStor system and File to terminate GXCC are active These allow you to select a different Centri...

Page 121: ...ightly depending on the GXCC version The status bar at the bottom of your screen displays the following information from left to right CentricStor global system state The Global System State is shown...

Page 122: ...nnections which exist to the monitored system Connection mode MP Multi Port SP Single Port GXCC mode Access permissions under which GXCC is currently running SERVICE GXCC is running in Service mode US...

Page 123: ...ssage is displayed in a text bubble The GXCC logo at the right hand end of the bar indicates a scan process by pulsating In the case of a scan process the system only checks whether there are status c...

Page 124: ...By clicking on the button to the left of the print line you acknowledge that you have read it The button then disappears only in your GXCC and reappears with the next output The message color changes...

Page 125: ...rocess remains stopped intil the associated function can be terminated or the maximum wait time timeout nn sec has been exceeded 6 1 5 Asynchronous errors In the case of internal errors such as those...

Page 126: ...in one ISP An ICP_IDP has both a host adapter and a SCSI or FC controller for running real tape drives and robots VLP Virtual Library Processor ISP with neither a host interface nor a device interface...

Page 127: ...the right hand margin see page 133 The line in upper case specifies the ISP type The second line contains the unit name of the ISP On the VLP and SVLP a triangle is displayed if the AutoVLP failover...

Page 128: ...current progress is displayed in blue script in the system message line Messages are displayed here concerning the stage which the procedure has reached The status only in the event of an error of ea...

Page 129: ...dge and once at the lower edge of the fabric This means that the connections can be seen more clearly although this bears no relevance on the function In the figure below the switches with the domain...

Page 130: ...ack ESCON connection orange FICON connection dark green FC connection If there are more than 8 connections only one intersected line is shown in addition the number of connections is specified The exa...

Page 131: ...esponding error message is output in the CentricStor system messages RAID symbol for mirror mode The RAID systems are represented together as a double RAID system with two arrows in the left hand half...

Page 132: ...101 102 103 und DB are located on the RAID system with the ID 1 The associated secondary cache is located on the RAID system with the ID 2 Archive systems Each access system is depicted at the lower...

Page 133: ...plies to the object If a component consists of several subsystems possibly with different operating statuses the status of each subsystem is indicated by the color of the small fields to the right of...

Page 134: ...ns only FibreChannel ports The following information is displayed name and release version of the ICP the operating status of the channel adapter s and the FibreChannel adapter for the host connection...

Page 135: ...evice servers middle box the operating status of the SCSI controllers for the tape drives bottom box 6 1 9 Functions of an ISP XTCC can be opened for each ISP to trace details in the ISPs by right cli...

Page 136: ...icate the status of the RAID controller Turquoise OK Pink Error stopped yellow Attention Red Configuration error As in the case of the FibreCAT CX500 CX3 20 or Eternus 3000 4000 it is not possible to...

Page 137: ...RAID status Selecting this option displays all the data of the RAID systems As in the case of the FibreCAT CX500 CX3 20 and Eternus 3000 4000 it is not possible to read the status via an FC port no in...

Page 138: ...on this indicates that there are no unprocessed traps present If there is an SNMP trap from one of the FC switches that has not yet been acknowledged the button bar in the GXCC window will display an...

Page 139: ...is only relevant for the repre sentation If incorrect cabling exists the color setting will have no effect The incorrect corrections will be shown in red and the others will be shown in gray 6 1 14 2...

Page 140: ...e of the switch as assigned during configuration and the port that the line goes to The controller in the ISP can be read directly from the overview image 13 in the example shown above 6 1 16 Informat...

Page 141: ...essages function causes a text window with the console messages to be opened see the section Show System Messages on page 158 This display is continuously updated You can also modify it so that it is...

Page 142: ...ion change When the InfoBroker is restarted the latent configuration changes are deleted You should thus not shut down the CentricStor system without an inquiry or without issuing the Restart InfoBrok...

Page 143: ...pressed simultaneously or first ALT and then the key for the undescored character is pressed 6 2 1 Overview of GXCC functions File page 145 Save page 145 Open page 146 Show page 146 Print page 146 Exi...

Page 144: ...inistration page 193 Show WWN s page 195 Show Optional Functions page 196 Show CS Configuration page 197 Diagnostic Snapshots page 197 Logical Volume Operations page 202 Physical Volume Operations pag...

Page 145: ...e same picture is then displayed again even if the situation no longer exists You can also transfer this data to a totally different system arbitrary PC and view it there with a GXCC without having ac...

Page 146: ...r and selecting a file The file type is preset to gxd and the file name is transferred to the entry field Instead of accepting the proposed file you can click on any other gxd file and open it If a gx...

Page 147: ...the Unit Select menu The Unit Select window is used for the following operations to select an ISP from an address list to edit this address list The first text box displays the unit name or IP address...

Page 148: ...rm socket_host_ip_address target_host_name You can sort the list and the file this is based on either in ascending or descending order by simultaneously pressing the keys CTRL o The Connection Mode fi...

Page 149: ...ts unit list Establishing a connection after clicking on OK 1 A check is carried out to establish whether or not the desired unit is accessible If it is not an existing connection will be retained and...

Page 150: ...gs If GXCC is running under the control of a profile file that has been explicitly specified all changes made using the Options and Autoscan functions will be saved to this profile file 6 2 4 1 Settin...

Page 151: ...de this field is called Data from file and is used to display path and file names of the current configuration file Service Level This is a field that is reserved for the purpose of authorizing the us...

Page 152: ...s selected in the Options menu however the Autoscan function will not be interrupted when an information window is opened see the section Settings on page 153 If the indicator is colored yellow this i...

Page 153: ...sting and moving the slider you can also set the Autoscan interval manually The current mode and the interval value t will be displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the XTCC window in the form S...

Page 154: ...ion is used to call the Global Status Monitor for a description see the chapter Global Status on page 237 on the connected CentricStor 6 2 6 2 Get Remote Expand Local File Opens a menu consisting of s...

Page 155: ...ges Field used to output messages from the components involved in file transfer The following text colors are used black and green for the process sequence red for errors and in the event of errors bl...

Page 156: ...ote File Opens a menu consisting of several entry fields a message window a list box and various buttons In this window you can transfer a file from a remote system to the local system and view it usi...

Page 157: ...e different columns in the list box FID_ACCESS File ID and access permissions REF Link counter OWNER Owner GROUP Group SIZE Size MTH Month DY Day HH MM Time PATHNAME Path name name of the file directo...

Page 158: ...sages by clicking the symbols in the title bar The messages are identified by different colors depending on their urgency blu Blue WARNING Warning red Red ERROR Error message CRITICAL Critical e g ser...

Page 159: ...tricStor runs on a wide variety of platforms The delivery package of CentricStor includes a CD containing the user interface software and installation utilities Following initial installation the upda...

Page 160: ...rom all the monitored systems is thus loaded automatically and activated on request An update installation from CD is thus not necessary on the workstation If GXCC is operated on a workstation by mult...

Page 161: ...rts to the status brought about by the initial installation After you select a file from the list you can choose Delete to delete this file choose Update to activate this status of GXCC The installati...

Page 162: ...nsists of a line with the date and time the text entered in the Additional Request Message field and a text relating to the action planned If the applications are not closed the following options are...

Page 163: ...er the application examples Application example Let s assume you want to update GXCC There are other GXCC XTCC applications active in your system You have to carry out the following steps You open the...

Page 164: ...ing it are that you can access a system on which an operational GXCC or XTCC version exists and that the faulty version provides a degree of basic functionality If the tool cannot be run because the f...

Page 165: ...re already specified and may NOT be changed Click on Get Remote to start data transfer from the remote to the local system If this is completed successfully the message Ready for Expand Local appears...

Page 166: ...ted during Distribute and Activate Afterward the file usr apc conf vtls_vg conf contains the modified data The floppy disk symbol in the GXCC window disappears if no further configuration changes are...

Page 167: ...cess to a series of dialog boxes for displaying and setting the configuration parameters Functions marked and colored yellow in the drop down menu indicate settings that are not consistent with the co...

Page 168: ...was opened The dialog box remains open Help Opens a text box containing operating instructions alongside the dialog box Any configuration changes not yet activated with Distribute and Activate are sto...

Page 169: ...relating to the object selected from several objects of the same type A dark gray border shows that the list and the associated elements belong together The NEW button and after you select a line the...

Page 170: ...nd then display it by pressing the Return key or by clicking another field or button the new object is defined A selected line appears for it in the list containing the name you entered You then have...

Page 171: ...d In Observe and User mode the OK button is not present and all the checkboxes are disabled Buttons Disable caches Some tests on empty file systems and consistent LVG assignments are skipped no or exe...

Page 172: ...gured green The file system is configured and mounted on all ISPs red The file system is configured but has not been mounted due to an error yellow The file system is configured but has been mounted o...

Page 173: ...ready been incorporated Clicking in the list selects a group The entry for the selected LVG has a light background As a default the entry fields contain the values of the selected group You can now ch...

Page 174: ...en you click on NEW the entry field for the name is opened The button for the LV type and the DELETE button appear The button NEW is not offered if the maximum number of LVGs 512 has been reached Afte...

Page 175: ...LVG is not satisfied the request to delete the LVG is rejected with a corresponding error message This condition is checked twice once when you click on OK in this window and once when Distribute and...

Page 176: ...configured with version 3 1A or earlier the DTV file system must be migrated before larger logical volumes are supported If you have not yet done this the assignment of an LV size 2 GB is rejected and...

Page 177: ...ch no LVGs have been explicitly assigned In addition to FLOATING the names of all the system s caches e g cache 101 are offered in the selection field If you select a specific cache name for an LVG th...

Page 178: ...scratch command VAMU CVA command change volume attribute VDAS Not used VLMF Not used VJUK Not used Dual Save Dirty Limit Determines the maximum share which logical volumes of this LVG which are dirty...

Page 179: ...individual cache file systems to be reserved for exclusive use by certain LV groups Benefit This permits cache residence of the logical volumes If you have ensured that the volume of data on the volu...

Page 180: ...ively assigned LV group must now be moved into this cache file system The assignment of an LV group to a cache file system is changed i e it is assigned to another cache file system All logical volume...

Page 181: ...re initially displayed In the case of PVGs already distributed with Distribute and Activate the To Be Deleted button is offered as in the form above in the case of newly entered PVGs the DELETE button...

Page 182: ...tents of the entry fields are buffered They are not yet entered in the configuration file Only when you click on OK are all the changes made since the last time the form was opened entered in the conf...

Page 183: ...must be met The PVG concerned may not be linked to any LVG No PVs may be contained in the PVG The PLM must be running If one of these conditions is not satisfied the request to delete the PVG is reje...

Page 184: ...assignment is determined by the maximum ascertained from Watermark and Watermark 2 The number of drives used for save requests is defined by the PLM according to the following formula n int 1 max Wri...

Page 185: ...he share of the capacity occupied by valid volume images falls below the specified percentage Time Frame Time in which reorganization runs should usually take place Times with a low productive load sh...

Page 186: ...r OK Accepts the entry It becomes effective with Distribute and Activate The Configu ration Changed symbol floppy disk symbol appears in the GXCC main window The changed configuration data is stored e...

Page 187: ...group s other parameters The physical volume group thus generated is empty You must incorporate the envisaged number of volumes in the archive and log it on in the PLM see Administration Physical Volu...

Page 188: ...tion is stored and then the last con figuration is distributed and activated If this function is then selected once more you return to the starting point which existed before the first time Activate_l...

Page 189: ...ibute and Activate although they in no way result in any change to the configuration and are not displayed via Preview This is always the case when processes were not running before or during Distribu...

Page 190: ...ISPs of the CentricStor to usr apc conf vtls conf yyyymmddhhiiss and usr apc conf vtls_vg conf yyyymmddhhiiss yyyymmdd YearMonthDay hhiiss HourMinuteSecond The working files usr apc broker vtls conf n...

Page 191: ...he following dialog box A profile file can be selected at startup with the profile filename option or by choosing this menu command If no profile file was selected explicitly GXCC runs under the contr...

Page 192: ...s the window without saving any changes made If you wish to save special settings the following procedure is recommended Start GXCC with the usual profile file Define a name for the new file and activ...

Page 193: ...ow CS Configuration Diagnostic Snapshots Logical Volume Operations 1 Physical Volume Operations 2 Setup for accounting mails 1 If the VLM is not running this menu item is displayed against a gray back...

Page 194: ...ow CS Configuration x x x Diagnostic Snapshots x x Create Snapshot s x x Show survey Delete snapshots x x Modify threshold values x x Install CS System x Save CS Configuration x Reset CS Configuration...

Page 195: ...bar 6 2 9 1 Show WWN s The following information is listed for all ISPs the IP addresses the World Wide Node Names the World Wide Port Names and the connection number of the FC connections to the FC s...

Page 196: ...e optional functions licenses which must be released using a key are listed in a text window with a note indicating whether or not they are licensed and installed in this system Example Subsequent ins...

Page 197: ...e vtrc script but in contrast to vtrc permits selection of the ISPs on which the function is to be performed A Diagnostic Snapshot is a collection of diagnostic data which the system stores in the fol...

Page 198: ...following information ISP Name Names of the ISPs of existing snapshots Number of snapshots which already exist on this ISP total size of snapshots MB Total memory space in MB occupied by the snapshot...

Page 199: ...sts nothing to do is issued The snapshot files are compressed before they are saved Depending on the size and number of files to be save it can take several seconds to save them If you call the Create...

Page 200: ...ot If snapshot generation was initiated via the Create snapshot s window see the preceding section the producer of the user text is entered If the snapshot was generated because an error has occurred...

Page 201: ...ing caused by the writing of snapshots These mechanisms use threshold values which you can adapt to your requiremetns using the Modify threshold values function Each of the defined values appies for t...

Page 202: ...sent A Free space threshold value of 0 is ignored Minimum number of snapshots which shall be kept This field is used to define the minimum number of snapshots which are to be retained when the periodi...

Page 203: ...500 000 volumes this places a significant load on the system and should only be done in exceptional cases Show Volume The following display types can be selected here overview This setting outputs an...

Page 204: ...isplayed A message box is used to indicate whether a volume set selected in this way is empty After you have acknowledged with OK you can start a new selection OK Refresh After you have clicked on OK...

Page 205: ...olume has just been inserted in a virtual tape drive There is still no confirmation for this Mnt Queued A mount request for the logical volume was queued by the VLM due to a lack of resources Restorin...

Page 206: ...206 U41117 J Z125 7 76 Function bar GXCC Example 2 Output window when range is set Volume serial number STW075 Number of volumes 6 The meaning of the columns is explained in example 1...

Page 207: ...calling the function of the same name for logical view In contrast to the VLM call the PLM call does not permit the use of wildcards allowing instead filtering according to PVG LVG and tape library T...

Page 208: ...of the LV is stored This PV is located in the PVG which is specified in the PVG 1 column PVG 1 PVG to which the LV is connected TL 1 Tape library in which the PV specified in the PV 1 column is locat...

Page 209: ...on on the maximum size Type of the logical volumes to be added see the section Logical Volume Groups on page 173 Thus only LVs which are the same size as or smaller than the LV size for the target LVG...

Page 210: ...y issuing an explicit call see Physical Volume Operations Reorganize Physical Volumes on page 228 or by temporarily shortening the refresh time this can only be done in Service mode At the latest afte...

Page 211: ...Operations Change Volume Group on page 209 The volume serial number must be unique in the entire CentricStor network CAUTION Depending on the system fonts selected the letter O may be extremely diffic...

Page 212: ...e add operation is started Cancel The window is closed without any further activity Actions linked with OK If logical volumes already exist in the range defined by means of the start VSN and number of...

Page 213: ...to be deleted Make sure that the volumes to be erased have been released from the pool managed by the host s The conventions described in the section Logical Volume Operations Add Logical Volumes on...

Page 214: ...logical volumes is to be deleted a message box appears in which the number of volumes already deleted is displayed It is not possible to abort the function You must therefore wait until all the volum...

Page 215: ...rations Show Physical Volumes An identical function is offered in the Global Status under Statistics see page 257 An intermediate menu makes it possible to identify the physical volume or volumes You...

Page 216: ...mpletely written volume vault Exported volumes write Write volume can still be used to migrate logical volumes faulty Faulty volume if this is a cleaning cartridge this signifies that the number of po...

Page 217: ...olume group state Status possible values e___ Volume ready for invalidation E___ The PV is reorganized and then invalidated f___ An error occurred while working with this tape it is not reused and aut...

Page 218: ...re no longer relevant cap GB Gross capacity without data compression This is not specified for volumes prior to initialization State new This value is only indicated if supplied by the drive Otherwise...

Page 219: ...te of a cleaning cartridge f___ faulty when all the cleaning cycles have been used up max count Initial number of cleaning cycles used_count Number of cleaning cycles used The PLM uses the cleaning ca...

Page 220: ...l volume belongs bl_nr Number of the first block of the logical volume on the PV size MB Size save request at Time at which the PLM received the save job This timestamp allows the Disaster Recovery me...

Page 221: ...ned PVG or unlinked unlinked means that no PVG has been assigned yet PVG Copy Name of the PVG for the backup copy or unlinked unlinked means that no PVG has been assigned yet Click a line to select th...

Page 222: ...in assignment leads to an Unlink followed by a Link with the new PVG name The responses of the PLM including any error messages are displayed in an info box This box lists the results of all PLM comma...

Page 223: ...ores of one PV 6 2 9 14 Physical Volume Operations Add Physical Volumes This function is not available in Observe mode The specified physical volumes are added to the selected physical volume group If...

Page 224: ...the following specifications Volume Serial Number First number of the volume s Physical Volume Group PVG to which the volume is to be assigned To add cleaning cartridges you must select the appropriat...

Page 225: ...es are checked see below Actions linked with OK and in the event of a positive result included in the PLM data maintenance system Cancel The window is closed without any further activity Actions linke...

Page 226: ...see the section Show System Messages on page 158 6 2 9 15 Physical Volume Operations Erase Physical Volumes This function is not available in Observe mode The following window allows you to remove phy...

Page 227: ...ts of the volume can no longer be accessed using CentricStor resources When removing the cleaning cartridges the number of cleaning cycles that remain are modified if the cartridge has not been used c...

Page 228: ...ical Volumes on page 213 You enter the group and name of the physical volume in the window The complete name must be entered without wildcards If you have to stop an initiated reorganization run you m...

Page 229: ...accounting data by e mail CAUTION sendmail must have been configured for this function to be effective see section Sendmail configuration on page 558 Displaying input options in the list area List of...

Page 230: ...parated either by blanks ON or commas OFF Default ON Get data at hh mm This field is used to define the time in hours and minutes at which the accounting data is to be ascertained To enable accounting...

Page 231: ...ault Account Data Max lines per mail This number is used to define the maximum size of a mail If the accounting data comprises more than the number of lines specified here the data is spread over more...

Page 232: ...ble in the language set 6 2 10 1 Readme LIESMICH A text window containing the CentricStor Operating Manual README is opened A detailed description of working with text windows is provided starting on...

Page 233: ...Revision Summary A text window with information on the installed software of all CentricStor ISPs is displayed System Name name of the ISP IP Number IP address Revision revision level of the software...

Page 234: ...ndow with information on the hardware components installed in the system is opened Information on the following hardware components is output ISPs Basic hardware Graphic adapters Internal RAID control...

Page 235: ...er a new connection is set up or the language is changed and a more recent version is found on the partner system In this case a more recent User Guide GUI Part has priority over an older User Guide c...

Page 236: ...Eine Dokuschablone von Frank Flachenecker by f f 1992...

Page 237: ...he Root menu on the CentricStor console The Global Status Monitor is independent of GXCC and must be terminated separately If there is no connection to an InfoBroker when Global Status starts up a sel...

Page 238: ...up time or at any time via the function bar Language Language selected E English D German CS Version CentricStor version Operating mode The access rights with which the Global Status Monitor is curren...

Page 239: ...ich file system and for which time period the data is to be stored The Global Status Monitor analyzes the performance data and displays individual readings either as they stand at present or their cou...

Page 240: ...he settings are transferred to the previous window File Output is to a file in PostScript format Orientation You use Orientation to select Portrait format Landscape format or Auto automatic adjustment...

Page 241: ...A separate data record is created for each monitored CentricStor Reset resets the screen settings to the values when the software was supplied Clicking on Options opens the window below If you activat...

Page 242: ...l Status is an application that is independent of GXCC Unlike XTCC Global Status remains active when GXCC is terminated You use this function to start GXCC for the CentricStor system monitored by mean...

Page 243: ...rtual device System name of the virtual tape device mounted volume VSN of a mounted volume empty if no volume is mounted special state emu device Status of the emulation device in the example two of t...

Page 244: ...pe and model Self explanatory prod rev Firmware status special state pds dev Status information of PDS device Physical Library Processes plm process ISP running the PLM pls processes Name of the PLS h...

Page 245: ...ating data history and the current operating mode statistics can be displayed and sorted according to various criteria Statistical data can be displayed via menus in the function bar or directly via o...

Page 246: ...used functions can be accessed immediately after you have clicked on the relevant button Shows all three subwindows Shows only right subwindow physical Shows only central subwindow logical Shows only...

Page 247: ...lines The subwindows show from left to right the throughput through the host interfaces and the device SCSI or FC controllers the status of the virtual components drives tape volume caches the status...

Page 248: ...solute size of a subwindow between fixed separating lines remains the same even if the size of the overall window changes The analog sizes are displayed in the form of a bar chart The current values a...

Page 249: ...area becomes visible when the mouse pointer is positioned near the maximum display bar The maximum bar outline is then temporarily displayed In this way you can still select the corresponding measured...

Page 250: ...components actually present For instance if CentricStor has no FC host adapter the top right diagram will be omitted There are no device controllers in the evaluation model A horizontal line above th...

Page 251: ...devices are self explanatory If a drive symbol is displayed with a black triangle to the right this indicates that a virtual volume has been loaded onto that drive or that the drive is currently bein...

Page 252: ...e This area cannot be made free for other volumes until the data has been written back to tape and therefore been made clean The proportions of the individual classes are displayed in the appropriate...

Page 253: ...ed is being resynchronized and is still in the out of sync status Left Primary cache Right Secondary cache Progress display on the cache column a bar that goes from blue to white and expands upward Th...

Page 254: ...display is not available in the evaluation model The second example shows how the screen layout changes when there are a large number of PVGs The display shows from left to right the PDS and the asso...

Page 255: ...e of the library and of the associated PLS are displayed Each bar represents the total number of volumes available The proportion of used volumes is displayed against a colored background The display...

Page 256: ...the library The representation is in principle identical to that of the PVG The overall number given under the bar shows the total number of cleaning cycles that are available The counter shows how ma...

Page 257: ...re available for a line graph In a presentation period of one hour the pixel corresponds to 6 seconds in a week it corresponds to approx 1000 seconds The stored measured values from this period are ev...

Page 258: ...c are displayed in the same screen for each cache It can take some time to build up the diagrams because a large volume of measured data must be analyzed to present long time periods e g approx 240 00...

Page 259: ...Volume Groups page 275 Jobs of Physical Volume Groups T Statistics Physical Components Jobs of Physical Volume Groups page 289 Logical Drives T Statistics Logical Components Logical Drives page 268 L...

Page 260: ...mn in right hand part of screen page 313 Physical Volumes Occupancy T Statistics Physical Components Physical Volumes page 279 Reorganization Status T Statistics Physical Components Reorga nization St...

Page 261: ...clean x x x used x x x dirty x x x CentricStor physical Components CentricStor physical Mounts number of Mounts x x cumulated MountTime x x CentricStor Total Mount Time of Range physical drives x x C...

Page 262: ...selected one of these displays a window with an empty page appears The function bar contains tools for defining the time period day time range The period selected day time range is displayed in a smal...

Page 263: ...in particular can have a negative effect on the operating behavior of CentricStor Hardcopy You can print the diagrams using File Print in the function bar page 239 or if Global Status is running on Wi...

Page 264: ...age 271 Logical Volumes logical view page 272 Logical Volume Groups page 273 Jobs of Logical Vol Groups page 275 Physical Components Physical Drives page 277 Physical Volumes page 279 Physical Volume...

Page 265: ...117 J Z125 7 76 265 Global Status History data 7 6 2 2 Statistics History of Cache Usage The history of cache usage is output in accordance with the cache total values of the virtual components subwin...

Page 266: ...ted continuously in the left hand bar of the Performance subwindow are output You can use the four checkboxes at the lower edge of the screen to determine what data is presented The following options...

Page 267: ...i e after the result has been displayed in the text window the dialog window with the selection criteria function window is reta ined for further searches The OK button at the lower edge of the funct...

Page 268: ...ives You can select drives in particular statuses using a selection window This statistics function supports the refresh function Information on this function and the OK and Cancel buttons is provided...

Page 269: ...the data contained in the volume or ACCESS TIME Timestamp of the last access or STATE Faulty The logical volume is faulty It can no longer be used Home The logical volume is currently not being used M...

Page 270: ...the physical tape before it is next accessed When the r flag is specified i e fr displays volumes which are currently being reorganized an additional column with the following flags is output P pendin...

Page 271: ...p see below LVcount Number of LVs in the name group extending from LV1st to LVend A name group consists of a sequence of logical volumes whose VSNs differ only in a serial number which is incremented...

Page 272: ...entation of the distribution table Clicking on a pie segment or a line in the distribution table highlights the related entries in the overall data table 7 6 2 7 Statistics Logical Components Logical...

Page 273: ...ups If multiple logical volume groups exist an intermediate menu is then displayed for selecting the volume group This statistics function supports the refresh function Information on this function an...

Page 274: ...f empty LVs Number of logical volumes in this group pending jobs Number of jobs which the PLM has accepted for this LVG recover jobs Number of logical volumes in a dual save group detected when starti...

Page 275: ...than one logical volume group LVG the required group is entered using an intermediate menu This statistics function supports the refresh function Information on this function and the OK and Cancel bu...

Page 276: ...re available Physical Drives see below Physical Volumes page 279 Physical Volume Groups page 283 Jobs of Physical Vol Groups page 289 Reorganization Status page 291 Notes on the refresh function All s...

Page 277: ...quired is selected via the drop down menu A list of the device statuses is displayed The output field contains a line with the name of the archive system The next line specifies the time of the last s...

Page 278: ...ing being processed DONE Job completed PLS_INSPECT_SENT Inspect command to a PLS PDS_INSPECT_SENT Inspect command to a PDS Transfer In MOUNT_SENT Mount command UMOUNT_SENT Unmount command INIT_SENT In...

Page 279: ...al Components Physical Volumes Depending on the setting of the volume selection an overview of one or more physical volumes and a statistical analysis are displayed The physical volume s can be identi...

Page 280: ...s tape It is not reused and automatically reorganized f_d_ A tape fault has occurred PV is faulty but an attempt is still made to write the directory onto the tape i___ The PV is currently not accessi...

Page 281: ...ap GB Gross capacity without data compression This is not specified for volumes prior to initialization State new This value is only indicated if supplied by the drive Otherwise the value 0 is supplie...

Page 282: ...he cleaning cycles have been used up max count Initial number of cleaning cycles used_count Number of cleaning cycles used The PLM uses the cleaning cartridges as far as possible in such a way that on...

Page 283: ...to identify which of the various different copies of a logical volume is the most recent The information for a cleaning cartridge contains a list showing all the cleaning runs carried out using this...

Page 284: ...mber of physical volumes in the group scratch Number of empty PVs LVs Number of logical volumes stored in this group TL Name of the archive to which this group is assigned jobs wait work Number of job...

Page 285: ...vailable cleaning cycles for the physical volumes number of cleaning cycles which are executed TL The tape library jobs wait work Number of waiting jobs number of working jobs When you select only one...

Page 286: ...selected on the graphical user interface hard minimum of empty PVs If the number of free volumes specified here is not reached a reorganization run is started immediately regardless of the occupancy...

Page 287: ...est time in the event of a reorganization MB s specifies the estimated write performance of the write drive Write Overhead the estimated overhead per volume to be written refresh interval Threshold va...

Page 288: ...Gs can be controlled by different sized time slices The larger the time slice of a PVG the greater its share in the use of the drives The layout of the subsequent list of PVs is the same as that descr...

Page 289: ...refresh function Information on this function and the OK and Cancel buttons is provided on page 276 The job data for the selected group s is displayed The top part of the text field shows the jobs tha...

Page 290: ...reated This is dependent on the following the type of job the current situation scratch tapes over under hard limit the procedure for which the job is executed depending on the number of empty tapes a...

Page 291: ...one or all PVGs is opened naturally the clean PVGs are not offered This statistics function supports the refresh function Information on this function and the OK and Cancel buttons is provided on page...

Page 292: ...Being written to tape start Not yet started retry Number of command retries after more than 2 the job is aborted timestamp Time at which the current status was entered The number specified in the ret...

Page 293: ...ysical Volume Groups on page 181 More detailed information on the retry causes is provided in the system messages see the section Show System Messages on page 158 7 6 2 16 Statistics Usage Accounting...

Page 294: ...n the system is output selected_LVGs Initially all the LVGs known in the system are displayed as check buttons Example You can then select those LVGs whose accounting data you are interested in Data f...

Page 295: ...e account information is displayed in a text field here with the option Data fields to be separated by white space The data is output in the following form for each CentricStor computer Title Accounti...

Page 296: ...ch the volume belongs LV Name of the volume SIZE MB Amount of data stored on this volume in MB LAST WRITE Date and time of the last write access SCRATCH BIT Value of the scratch bit1 on Volume may be...

Page 297: ...e button a context menu with the menu item Show Statistics is opened If you select the Show Statistics function an empty statistics window opens in which you can enter the required time specifications...

Page 298: ...ms After a statistic has been selected first of all a window with an empty page appears The window is structured as follows 7 7 1 Function menu bar 7 7 1 1 File The following functions are available E...

Page 299: ...If Global Status is running under Windows it is advisable to use the print function button page 246 This opens the usual Windows print menu A printer setup menu is displayed Setting options Print to...

Page 300: ...lower border Print Printout takes place with the values set Help A help text is output Default Saves all current settings Cancel The window is closed without the changes being accepted Exit This close...

Page 301: ...period should start on the date set and at the time selected from date time or end with the current time up to now After you have clicked on the required field the window is closed and the value selec...

Page 302: ...tic storing import When the Viewer has been terminated the current settings are saved in the current profile The next time the Viewer is called the settings from this profile are used again 7 7 1 8 He...

Page 303: ...the last history call on the GUI computer Language Language set for the helps Platform Operating system Version Version of the program 7 7 4 Diagrams for the throughput left hand part of the screen Ov...

Page 304: ...pter Mode selection max min max or average see section Selecting the presentation mode on page 263 is supported Device ports For each tape drive controller a column showing the current throughput for...

Page 305: ...nents central part of the screen 7 7 5 1 ICP emulations A distinction must be made here between whether the readlog or getlog protocol is being used on the connected CentricStor This depends on the Ce...

Page 306: ...3 1D or higher get_log protocol The following diagrams are offered depending on the mode selected see the section Mo de on page 301 Mount state diagram The mounted state is displayed for each emulatio...

Page 307: ...125 7 76 307 Global Status History diagrams Mount summary diagram The number of emulations PDSs in the mounted state at any given time is shown here This shows how many tapes were unmounted at a parti...

Page 308: ...hich group of 16 emulations is to be displayed The presentation period is set permanently to one hour The key at the bottom of the window describes the meaning of the colors of the lines in the pictur...

Page 309: ...together To do this right click on the relevant cache column in the central section and select Show Statistics in the context menu After you have specified the required time period you are shown a pre...

Page 310: ...of volumes which are being loaded are saved in this area dirty The volumes imaged here have changed compared to their contents saved on tape When the data is saved to tape the status changes to Clean...

Page 311: ...U41117 J Z125 7 76 311 Global Status History diagrams Example for V3 1D...

Page 312: ...5 7 76 History diagrams Global Status Example for V3 1D The presentation period is set permanently to one hour Each line pair shows the status of the PDS upper line and that of the relevant physical d...

Page 313: ...on a column in the right hand part of the screen with the right mouse button and select Show Statistics a window containing the tape pool values appears Example The presentation shows the progress fo...

Page 314: ...erably more data than would be needed to draw the diagram currently selected see the example below To save the data a selection dialog is offered which enables you to switch the directory and assign a...

Page 315: ...tten to the file than would be shown on the screen namely all data fields which were read in for the presentation selected i e the raw data sup plied at the interface Example If the presentation mode...

Page 316: ...o ry csv file the file name is arbitrary by adding the suffix history csv to the script call The script call has the following format get_hist sh history type additional parameter Explanation The hist...

Page 317: ...ite performance for ISP and ESCON channel specified fc average minimal and maximal read and write performance for ISP and fiber channel specified ficon average minimal and maximal read and write perfo...

Page 318: ...behind in the balloon help 2 click left mouse button in globstat window on device which you are interested in and take string which appears behind in the balloon help 3 This parameter is needed if his...

Page 319: ...f a double click if a link exists between xls files and the evaluation program or by starting the evaluation program and then ope ning the macro If necessary click on the Activate macros button to con...

Page 320: ...320 U41117 J Z125 7 76 History diagrams Global Status Example 1 Create a file get_hist sh total da 2006 03 29 ho 0 pt 6h YIN total2 txt 2 Transfer file 3 Open Excel macro...

Page 321: ...U41117 J Z125 7 76 321 Global Status History diagrams 4 Open history file...

Page 322: ...322 U41117 J Z125 7 76 History diagrams Global Status 5 Confirm you wish to open it...

Page 323: ...J Z125 7 76 323 Global Status History diagrams Here by way of comparison is the GXCC presentation Note the output mode min max average selected in GXCC and the spreadsheet of the same name selected in...

Page 324: ...Eine Dokuschablone von Frank Flachenecker by f f 1992...

Page 325: ...en as you wish When GXCC is terminated all XTCC instances that were started from GXCC are also terminated XTCC assumes the operating mode Service User or Observe of the initiating GXCC application All...

Page 326: ...ed Device Processor An IDP always has at least one tape drive connected via SCSI or FC and an associated PDS Physical devices are available only on IDPs VLP Virtual Library Processor Any ISP which is...

Page 327: ..._IDP combination the display is somewhat different PDSs and emulations virtual devices are located on the same level in the diagram The PDSs are connected to the associated device controller and the e...

Page 328: ...ned below from left to right with the help of examples confirm If confirm is flashing in red in the left hand field you must answer a message window generally with OK to confirm you have taken note Un...

Page 329: ...s value will also allow you to calculate the performance of the connection Windows NT Platform on which XTCC is running m n XTCC version number The visual appearance of the main XTCC window is determi...

Page 330: ...Apply Current Aspect page 337 Autoscan Start Stop page 338 Settings page 339 Scan Now page 340 Tools XTCC Communications page 341 Get Remote Expand Local File page 342 Show Remote File page 342 Compa...

Page 331: ...roposed file you can click on any other dat file and open it If a dat file has been saved in a different directory then you can click the button next to the directory bar to change to any higher level...

Page 332: ...e printout Command List box used to specify the printer In the case of UNIX systems this field must be set to the name of the print program or script File Target for the PostScript file to be created...

Page 333: ...trait format Landscape Landscape format Auto Automatic selection depending on the page dimensions Paper Allows you to select the paper format to be used A4 210 x 297 mm Letter 216 x 279 mm Mode Allows...

Page 334: ...ngs are not saved if XTCC is exited using the following functions System function Window Manager function Click on the CentricStor icon at the top left and in the pull down menu select the Close funct...

Page 335: ...GXCC Otherwise if XTCC was started directly the XTCC Unit Select window is opened Example The operation and functions of Unit Select are described in the section Select on page 147 Errors during conne...

Page 336: ...ill no longer be displayed By left or right clicking anywhere in the XTCC window you can reset the configuration display to 100 with the optimum aspect Smaller scales are particularly useful when moni...

Page 337: ...ined by the program for the associated scale and the last aspect selected by the user The aspect parameters are based on the size and position of the window on screen If the optimum aspect is changed...

Page 338: ...an information window if Move Pointer for Info mode was selected in the Options menu Text in yellow indicates that a new data record is currently being received and edited by InfoBroker Autoscan delay...

Page 339: ...toscan delay is set manually and displayed in the status bar in the format M value s Scale Range If Manual Adjusting is selected the scale range for the slider control can be modified The settings 5 5...

Page 340: ...ction Timeout XTCC stops the periodic Autoscan process if no user interactions are registered for an hour The following are counted as user interactions Moving the mouse cursor over the configuration...

Page 341: ...nnections to the selected ISPs together with short messages Message which are used for communication between the XTCC users In Remote mode the IDs have the format ip_address name port and in Local mod...

Page 342: ...r You can also use the Return key instead of this button Clear Deletes the input field and message in the InfoBroker Help Displays the XTCC help file Cancel Discards any entered message text and close...

Page 343: ...Merge and Save functions are disabled The diff tool has its own help function 8 3 5 5 XTCC Update Revert The use of this tool is described in the section GXCC Update Revert Tool on page 159 Please no...

Page 344: ...p in English German Autoscan Settings Autoscan Delay Mode Manual Self Adjusting Scan on function completion Enable Disable and the current size and position of the window on screen aspect A backup ope...

Page 345: ...he new unit If this is the case this data is used for control purposes with the exception of any predefined command line arguments mentioned above Otherwise the existing settings are adopted and these...

Page 346: ...rious buttons The list box contains the profile names already defined To select an entry and transfer it to the input line you simply left click on the appropriate list item If special characters are...

Page 347: ...ve a special meaning here Detection of an individual arbitrary character Detection of no or multiple arbitrary characters abc Detection of a character from the group abc a z Detection of a character f...

Page 348: ...here to Help Information on using the file viewer can be found starting on page 360 8 3 7 2 Direct Help Direkthilfe This describes how to call up the object related Help functions 8 3 7 3 Mouse Functi...

Page 349: ...the bottom right of the configuration overview window Meaning of the buttons OK The window is closed File info Opens a text window in which information on the XTCC files that exist is output The versi...

Page 350: ...the event of connection setup Unit Select or when changing the language setting Options Settings Here a more recent User Guide GUI Part has priority over an older User Guide complete The user is noti...

Page 351: ...of connection setup Unit Select or when changing the language setting Options Settings Here a more recent Service Manual GUI Part has priority over an older Service Manual complete The user is notifie...

Page 352: ...ow displays an ISP of the CentricStor system together with the connected peripherals The ISP is represented by a beige field at the center of the window The small colored boxes around the edge represe...

Page 353: ...display on page 356 The ISP peripherals are displayed outside the central field Connections between elements are represented by colored lines purely for the purposes of clarity If a connection is faul...

Page 354: ...er errors in other words background errors In this case XTCC must be closed Try to skip This button is optional XTCC attempts to skip the errored procedure which can naturally result in further errors...

Page 355: ...used with the current object type e g drive If a function can theoretically be used but is not meaningful at present e g Stop Trace when the trace is not running then this function is displayed but ca...

Page 356: ...nted by a tab sheet is displayed The tab sheet indicates which group is currently being displayed and the number of groups into which the display of the CentricStor components is divided Once XTCC is...

Page 357: ...a group its color changes to blue If you then click your left mouse button the group is transferred to the configuration display and its number appears in the Group m of n field in the tab in the top...

Page 358: ...D Turquoise OK ACTIVE OK Running and attached Read write read only busy OK Green Running and not attached Pink ACTIVATING CHAN_DISAB CONFIGURED FAILED INACTIVE INITIAL STOPPED Hanging 11 Stopped Onlin...

Page 359: ...iguration overview 6 Information present in the configuration overview 7 MIM SIM of the two lowest priorities Flashing symbol in the overview 8 Serious inconsistency in the configuration data Emulatio...

Page 360: ...ally In this case certain application specific functions e g Re read may be disabled With some applications special text may be displayed above the scroll area see the section Re read on page 361 and...

Page 361: ...ents that have been loaded is displayed in the Read field 8 5 3 2 Save As This function is only available in User and Service mode Saves the file views in a directory under a name of your choice 8 5 3...

Page 362: ...round 8 5 4 1 Start Only when AutoUpdate is stopped AutoUpdate is activated 8 5 4 2 Stop Only when AutoUpdate is active AutoUpdate is stopped 8 5 5 AutoPopup This menu item is only offered if the Auto...

Page 363: ...s for regular expres sions Regular expressions r Finds string r if there are zero or more occurrences of r r Finds string r if there are one or more occurrences of r r Finds string r if there are zero...

Page 364: ...rwise the number of hits for a text string to be searched for may be incorrect 8 5 7 Search down up Selecting Down or Up with the left mouse button or pressing the associated keyboard shortcut enables...

Page 365: ...ns The selected file is displayed either in text mode or as a hexadecimal ASCII dump In the hexadecimal dump all characters with the coding 0x00 0x1F and 0x7F 0xFF are replaced in the text section by...

Page 366: ...ators the tab stop interval can change The default generates an interval of 8 characters with behavior typical for a text editor For the other values intervals from 1 20 can be selected with behavior...

Page 367: ...llow or red flashing tool symbol indicates that the file system is overfull yellow 95 red 100 The object information contains the following data System Name Name of the CS system if available Unit Nam...

Page 368: ...logging process can cause the file system to fill up If this occurs it is reported 8 6 2 ISP functions Function Note Show Revision History Version Consistency Check Offered only if the consistency ch...

Page 369: ...U41117 J Z125 7 76 369 XTCC ISP 8 6 2 1 Show Revision History This function is used to display a log showing all the software updates of the ISP...

Page 370: ...equent integration of devel oper corrections A window opens in which the result of the check is displayed This example shows that Version 1 7 of header file headers apc pds_plm h was used when the Inf...

Page 371: ...between the current and the previous versions using the graphical Diff tool The two versions are displayed in synchronized text windows The differ ences are marked with colors and the number is shown...

Page 372: ...lays the node element descriptors of the ESCON channel adapters and the under lying virtual devices Show View functions open windows that are equipped with scroll bars and search functions For informa...

Page 373: ...ulation name HSI and device name for ICPs or a list of PDSs for an IDP a description of the CentricStor internal Fibre Channel topology from the point of view of the ISP information about the host ada...

Page 374: ...mponent Coding the Fibre Channel path If a binary representation is being used and the highest order bit is set the connection is via the fabric protocol If this bit is not set an arbitrated loop conn...

Page 375: ...ystem occupancy level is greater than 95 or is at 100 File System full The function starts a program which cleans the file systems of superfluous files The program deletes files that are contained in...

Page 376: ...section Settings on page 336 Host connections and external drives always remain visible 8 7 1 1 Hard disk drives The status of a hard disk is indicated by the following colors Green Read write read b...

Page 377: ...rget number In the upper part the write read status is indicated by a lock symbol If the lock is closed the status is read only 8 7 1 3 Streamer The status of a streamer drive is indicated by the foll...

Page 378: ...een Ready for operation Yellow Unknown White Not available You will find more information in the section Object information on RAID systems on page 411 8 7 2 Functions of the ISP internal objects 8 7...

Page 379: ...rial number of the host adapter in the ICP appears in the top line here HA 0 and the interface type appears in the second line here ESCON The following information is also displayed in the information...

Page 380: ...Board Number Number of the adapter board Board Type Board type Bus Type Bus type Bus Number Bus number Device Number Position of the FICON host adapter in the ICP bus system WW Node Number World Wide...

Page 381: ...and of the host channels connected to the host adapter The node ID is formatted An explanation of the abbreviations can be found under the list If the node ID cannot be decoded the relevant line is h...

Page 382: ...riptors of an ESCON FICON host adapter and the under lying virtual devices Show View functions open windows that are equipped with scroll bars and search functions For information on the tools that ca...

Page 383: ...U41117 J Z125 7 76 383 XTCC ESCON FICON host adapter 8 8 2 3 Show Dump prkdump Display of the host adapter driver dump To analyze this dump you will need detailed knowledge of the system i...

Page 384: ...for communicating with the host adapter and the other for communicating with the logical device or RAID system These processes are referred to as the channel process and the device process Normally bo...

Page 385: ...number t Host adapter type cc Channel image if defined llll Link address connection number of the host on the ESCON director a Connection status a attached uu Control Unit Image CUI Channel Process D...

Page 386: ...386 U41117 J Z125 7 76 Emulations of drives connected to OS 390 host adapters XTCC 8 9 2 1 Show Error Transfer Statistics Display of the error and statistical data transferred to the host...

Page 387: ...s of drives connected to OS 390 host adapters 8 9 2 2 Show Short Trace Displays general information at the beginning of the start trace file This is followed by the trace on all commands sent by the h...

Page 388: ...388 U41117 J Z125 7 76 Emulations of drives connected to OS 390 host adapters XTCC 8 9 2 3 Show Path Trace Displays the path sequence of I Os...

Page 389: ...ext window containing the error log of the virtual device or emulation Logical device error messages may be issued as a result of operating errors read command for empty drive write command for write...

Page 390: ...he emulation which is present in memory This function makes it possible to display a continuous memory trace for the emulation logging This logging is independent of the trace set manually Example Mem...

Page 391: ...a fully automatic path switchover depending on which FC controller is used to access the external RAID in the event of FC redundancy The overall integration of a virtual drive in CentricStor is displa...

Page 392: ...TOP ERR 002 pcib open failed no connection to the channel EMU STOP ERR 003 Index already exists overlap in the kernel buffer address EMU STOP ERR 004 SIGSET for pcib EMU STOP ERR 005 Device type not s...

Page 393: ...ry Only for mounted volume Details of the cache area occupied by the volume The graphical display also indicates error messages that have not yet been acknowledged A flashing icon indicates whether Se...

Page 394: ...IM fault symptom code FSC 0 3 X hhhh MIM text Possible cause 0C01 Unsupported format 0C02 Hard write error TFS hard write error Hard errors which recur repeatedly cause CentricStor to crash 0C03 Hard...

Page 395: ...vice versa In a CentricStor ICP the SCSI interface is only emulated In the real system the device emulation works with the interfaces of the file system to the RAID cache However because internal proc...

Page 396: ...396 U41117 J Z125 7 76 Virtual 3490 drives XTCC 8 10 2 2 Show Medium Info MIM An info box appears if no MIM log exists Displays the latest Media Information Messages in a text window...

Page 397: ...nfo SIM Displays the latest Service Information Messages in a text window The MIM and SIM codes of the virtual devices are described in the section Object infor mation on page 393 8 10 2 4 Unload and...

Page 398: ...ormation is also displayed in the information box Vendor Product Vendor and product name Product Class Product class Adapter Status Operational status Board No Type Number and type of the host adapter...

Page 399: ...d only if the host adapter is in ACTIVE mode 8 12 Emulations of SCSI drives VTD 8 12 1 Object information on emulations of SCSI devices The emulation type VTD Virtual Tape Device is provided for open...

Page 400: ...formation box displays Virtual Tape Device Internal SINIX name for the device Logical Unit Number LUN on the FC SCSI interface Controller Serial number on the FC SCSI controller Revision Revision leve...

Page 401: ...race 8 12 2 1 Show Trace Displays the emulation trace in a text window The example above shows the trace entries created when the VTD is started During operation the trace primarily records the SCSI c...

Page 402: ...y automatic path switchover depending on which FC controller is used to access the external RAID in the event of FC redundancy A virtual drive is symbolized by a rectangle subdivided into lines If a l...

Page 403: ...t 4 bytes of the WWPN of the host which reserves the drive are displayed Medium Type Only with a mounted volume always corresponds to the emulated volume type VSN Location Mount point file system and...

Page 404: ...unctions are available 8 13 2 1 Show SCSI Sense Shows the accumulated SCSI sense bytes of the virtual drive 8 13 2 2 Show Medium Info MIM Shows the Media Information Messages 8 13 2 3 Show Service Inf...

Page 405: ...CentricStor is able to run up to 10 instances of a library of type VAMU or 20 instances of a library of type VJUK The status of a VLS is indicated by the colors pink stopped green running and green br...

Page 406: ...d Lun SCSI Lun of the jukebox Mode Operating status 8 14 2 Functions for individual VLSs The functions available for a VLS depend on its type VDAS has the Show Trace function which opens a text window...

Page 407: ...virtual volumes in the virtual drive s on behalf of the VLM Each ICP has its own VMD The VMD and the drives it serves must be located on the same ISP The status of the VMD is indicated by the colors...

Page 408: ...ied for customer operation If the mask contains only binary zeros or is not present then the corresponding trace is inactive 8 16 2 VLM functions The following functions are available Show Cache Statu...

Page 409: ...ently being loaded from tape to cache restoring Logical volumes that are being read in as part of a reorganization move restore Logical volumes that are being rewritten as part of a reorganization mov...

Page 410: ...t to execute this function If you confirm with Yes then a corresponding message box is displayed that you must confirm by clicking OK The symbol for the VLM in the corresponding XTCC window changes to...

Page 411: ...ion They are thus not visible in the overview of the ISP They become visible when you position the mouse pointer on the right hand gray border of the ISP symbol and press the right mouse button The st...

Page 412: ...412 U41117 J Z125 7 76 RAID systems XTCC The controller types differ slightly in their presentation of the functions available S80 FC2502 Internal RAID system CX500 CX3 20 Eternus 3000 4000...

Page 413: ...2 3 etc If multiple RAID systems are contained in CentricStor and it was possible to determine the firmware version for at least one RAID the versions of all RAIDs of the same type are compared If th...

Page 414: ...ages Show Log Page Details The availability of the functions de pends on the particular RAID system The menus are available in all operating modes 8 17 2 1 Show Complete RAID Status all types Opens a...

Page 415: ...the SCSI mode pages in a text window To interpret the page data you will need to refer to the SCSI reference manual and the manual for the RAID system 8 17 2 3 Show Mode Page Details The mode pages de...

Page 416: ...he status of the Physical Library Manager PLM is represented by the colors pink stopped green running green brown running with trace switched on and green red in recovery mode In the extended status t...

Page 417: ...error this is indicated by means of a red triangle The example below shows the object information of an archive controlled via SCSI left via LAN center and a CASHION archive controlled via serial int...

Page 418: ...r ID Vendor identifier Product ID Product identifier Product Rev Product revision level Accessor Type Type of access system Accessor Model Model Accessor Status Status Controller SCSI controller Targe...

Page 419: ...are displayed This function is not offered for all systems and all libraries 8 20 2 2 Show Mode Page Details Via a submenu you must specify the mode page for which you want an itemized display This fu...

Page 420: ...r there are situations in which this will not be the case If this occurs the top half of the block shows the status of the channel process while the bottom half shows the status of the device process...

Page 421: ...handled in the same way as SCSI controllers The label FC allows you to differentiate them from the drive controllers which are labelled SP standing for SCSI parallel For technical reasons FC controlle...

Page 422: ...the targets connected to the SCSI bus of this controller This function should be used if components have been added to or removed from the corresponding SCSI bus It is not suitable for incorporating n...

Page 423: ...d the drive will only permit read access To the right of the lock symbol is the serial number of the volume currently loaded VSN The middle section represents the device s display and is used to indic...

Page 424: ...lowing information is displayed Vendor ID Product ID Firmware Revision Drive Serial Number Drive Status SIM MIM Severity Appears only if SIMs or MIMs are present and indicates the severity of the mess...

Page 425: ...y examples The following functions are available Show SCSI Sense Show Log Pages Show Log Page Details Show Mode Pages Show Mode Page Details Show Vital Product Data Show Medium Info MIM Show Service I...

Page 426: ...which are described in the hardware reference manual of the corresponding device For MBK6 3490 HSI CDB i e the SCSI command with associated parameters Sense Key with the corresponding analyzed message...

Page 427: ...opened in which you specify which log pages are to be itemized and displayed 8 23 2 4 Show Mode Pages Displays the SCSI mode pages This displays the current device setting to perform a detailed analy...

Page 428: ...which mode pages the device supplies If you select a page here that is also described in the SCSI standard this will be displayed and interpreted in detail as in the example below The SCSI topology C...

Page 429: ...subsection of the configuration data stored in the tape device The device settings made in the Service and Operator menus can be found again here These include for example the display language Here y...

Page 430: ...drives real XTCC Extract from the FID log In this way you can extract an event or error history FID code and FSC1 and FSC2 Fault Symptom Code must be reported to the manufacturer if errors which canno...

Page 431: ...there is no MIM entry you will be notified in an info box If Medium Information Messages have been recorded a text window appears with the messages The MIMs of the drives are recorded The MIMs and th...

Page 432: ...corded error The problem is described in more detail in this window In some cases there is already a suggested solution for the service engineer If required the PDS creates two separate SIMs 0900 Driv...

Page 433: ...ager MSGMGR The Message Manager monitors and saves the system outputs of the various processors of the CentricStor system It can respond to certain error events by instigating the appro priate measure...

Page 434: ...SGMGR Message Manager XTCC 8 24 2 1 Show Trace Displays the trace data 8 24 2 2 Show Trap Trace Displays the trap trace data The trap trace records all SNMP traps sent by the Message Manager to the SN...

Page 435: ...og files can be displayed in graphical format using the tools described starting in section History data on page 257 The status of the Performance Logger is indicated by the colors pink stopped green...

Page 436: ...U41117 J Z125 7 76 PERFLOG XTCC 8 25 2 PERFLOG functions 8 25 2 1 Show Trace Logging Displays the trace and log data This example shows an extract from a trace depicting the events recorded during sta...

Page 437: ...object is displayed as of CentricStor V3 1C2000 provided the Accounting License is installed The status of the Account Daemon ACCOUNTD is shown by the colors pink stopped and green running Name Name...

Page 438: ...cense CMF MIRRORD consists of two processes the parent and child processes The upper half of the block is used to present the parent process the lower half the child process The status of the processe...

Page 439: ...cess for RAID systems of the type FC2502 Name Name as shown in the symbol PID Process ID Autostart enabled disabled The status of the daemon is indicated by the following colors pink Stopped green Run...

Page 440: ...n the VLP and one on the SVLP These daemons monitor the operational integrity of the VLP and in the event of a failure trigger automatic VLP switchover PID Process ID Autostart enabled disabled The st...

Page 441: ...the various CentricStor software components output messages at the console The message texts are stored in the file var adm klog msg on the host in question and can be viewed centrally via the GXCC me...

Page 442: ...event was reported Urgency Description Color None Black INFO General information Black DEBUG Debug information Black NOTICE Information about a normal state change Black WARNING Warning message Blue E...

Page 443: ...lower levels to physical and logical volume identifiers is established Corrective measures are suggested where possible If there are no corrective measures specified this may be due to the following...

Page 444: ...SXLV Log Volume 458 SXMM Message Manager 459 SXPL PLM Physical Library Manager 465 SXPS PLS Physical Library Server 482 SXRD FibreCAT RAID 485 SXRP RPLM Recovery Physical Library Manager 491 SXSB Sad...

Page 445: ...hen a value greater than 500 seconds is specified as a period a check must be made to see whether CMF failures have been reported by the ICPs or IDPs since the time Time stamp of the message minus per...

Page 446: ...er to multi user mode is stopped and the data resources are updated manually Response Access to the VLP via LAN is possible because the LAN services inetd are already activated The most recent valid d...

Page 447: ...ass mir public usr apc broker mir_mgr The switchover to multi user mode is then continued 9 2 2 SXCH Channel pcib pcea SXCH001 channel linkad link has invalid node_id mfr mfr ALERT Meaning A host with...

Page 448: ...re recommended to replace the board SXCH006 ESCON ad board bus pci bus dev pci device ser_nr serial nr defective ALERT Meaning Error when starting the ESCON board PCEAS PCEAT This error is reported wh...

Page 449: ...EAD Error in Channel chn ALERT Meaning During a read access the data was corrupted when it was transferred from the SINIX me mory to the ESCON channel Response Replace the ESCON board SXCH011 ESCON ad...

Page 450: ...d After this the configuration function Distribute and Activate must be initiated in Reactivate_failed_config mode SXDN102 DNA 102 ALERT switch VLP_to_SVLP successfully completed The VLP has been succ...

Page 451: ...or DTV data compression As a result support is not provided for TFS DTV data compression and compressed volumes cannot be read Response Notify maintenance staff SXDT009 ALERT DTV filesystem may be cor...

Page 452: ...ut when individual ISPs or the entire CentricStor system is are rebooted They are issued only when certain switch firmware revisions are used and can be ignored SXFC026 ICP1 FC2 IOCB_E_LOCAL_REJECT AL...

Page 453: ...aning This message can only appear after a new installation or an update The current FW on the SAN controller does not permit operation Response Notify maintenance staff SXFC044 stgt2 06 received NACK...

Page 454: ...l Driver SXFP033 A02 ICPB FC5 RESET controller initiated None Meaning After a hardware or firmware defect an attempt is made to reset the module Once this has been completed you can in most cases cont...

Page 455: ...Devices like PCs or RAID disk arrays are currently being removed or added or cables are being plugged in removed Response None if this state is temporary However after approximately 1 minute things sh...

Page 456: ...ally restarted s after d tries Meaning s stands for VMD name e g MD03 perf_log vlsMsgMgr The process was automatically restarted after d attempts SXIB102 IB 102 NOTICE Stop s for Maintenance Meaning s...

Page 457: ...there will be a time gap between message IB201 and IB202 SXIB300 IB 300 ERROR connection to isp lost Meaning The hosts of the CentricStor network are monitored using a keep alive mechanism Here the h...

Page 458: ...erface Response Notify maintenance staff SXLA002 LANWATCH 2 NOTICE interface no ip addr LINK UP Meaning The LAN interface interface no e g iee0 bge1 has set up a connection to the next hub or switch T...

Page 459: ...aintenance staff SXMM005 KLOG pid WARNING getc error errno error number error description Meaning Error while reading in the messages from dev osm Response Notify maintenance staff SXMM005 KLOG pid WA...

Page 460: ...ff SXMM005 KLOG pid WARNING stdout error errno error number error description Meaning Error while accessing stdout Response Notify maintenance staff SXMM005 KLOG pid WARNING input output files filenam...

Page 461: ...NMP master station Response Notify maintenance staff SXMM012 VLSM pid WARNING vlsTrace trace signal error Meaning Error while creating a new trace file or error while activating deactivating the trace...

Page 462: ...ng in the configuration file vtls conf Response Notify maintenance staff SXMM012 VLSM pid WARNING Message Manager configuration entry read error Meaning Error while reading in the Message Manager conf...

Page 463: ...ory space in msg after the oldest history file has been removed SXMM014 VLSM pid INFO START MsgAdm daemon Meaning Information on the start of the process vlsMsgMgr SXMM014 VLSM pid INFO reopen stdin d...

Page 464: ...f SXMM019 EMSG pid WARNING vlsTrace trace filename error Meaning Error while creating a new trace file Response Notify maintenance staff SXMM019 EMSG pid WARNING Check Path usr apc vtls error Meaning...

Page 465: ...SXMM021 EMSG pid INFO reopen stderr TraceFile error Meaning Error while redirecting stderr to the EmsgTrap trace file SXMM021 EMSG pid INFO error setsid errno error number error description Meaning I...

Page 466: ...nse Check whether the PLS is functioning SXPL006 PLM 6 NOTICE Physical Library Server name reachable again Meaning It was again possible to send a message to the PLS SXPL007 PLM 7 ALERT VLM not reacha...

Page 467: ...PV group PVG reached Meaning Only num tapes are still free Aside from reorganization no more save operations will be executed The effective throughput of CentricStor is significantly reduced Response...

Page 468: ...ked by the PLM as read only Any logical volumes still located on this physical volume should be moved by means of a reorganization Once this has been done replace the physical volume If a read error o...

Page 469: ...memory memory chip If the error occurs regularly despite this the cartridge must be replaced Notify maintenance staff if necessary ERR_PDS_03_POSITION Meaning Positioning error the position is beyond...

Page 470: ...or when writing a tape mark file mark Possible cause full tape Response Notify maintenance staff ERR_PDS_03_UNLOAD_TAPE Meaning Error while executing Unload and Test Unit Ready MTC drive is not ready...

Page 471: ...s which occur when accessing the TFS access open read write Response The meaning of the error texts transferred in PDS error string and any actions to be taken are listed below List of the error strin...

Page 472: ...during program start evaluation of vtls conf communication etc are classified as class 1 errors Response The meaning of the error texts transferred in PDS error string and any actions to be taken are...

Page 473: ...ysical volume If so remove it with the GXCC function Erase Physical Volumes see section Physical Volume Operations Erase Physical Volumes on page 226 ERR_PDS_01_STATE_NOT_VALID Meaning Tape header has...

Page 474: ...on the cartridge write the correct header ERR_PDS_01_TAPE_NOT_INIT Meaning No tape has yet been initialized and activated Therefore the operation cannot be performed It is possible that no physical v...

Page 475: ...e PV name Response This may be temporary You should nevertheless check whether the relevant tape cartridge is known to the robot Notify maintenance staff if necessary SXPL023 PLM 23 ERROR PDS name has...

Page 476: ...B directory is not mounted Primary data maintenance was not restored after the RAID system was replaced Response Notify maintenance staff SXPL027 PLM 27 NOTICE PV name of tapelibrary name is faulty Me...

Page 477: ...occurred or the robot was unable to access the physical volume Response Notify maintenance staff SXPL037 PLM 37 NOTICE Reorganisation PV PV Name of PV group pv group selected reason reason Meaning re...

Page 478: ...free cleancycles num of tape library name reached Meaning The soft minimum for cleaning cycles has been reached Response Mount new cleaning cartridges SXPL044 PLM 44 ERROR hard minimum of free cleanc...

Page 479: ...ing of directory failed for PV name on PDS name Meaning Error when writing the tape directory Possible causes No space available on the tape or tape damaged This is normally not a problem only in the...

Page 480: ...ere only saved 1x is aborted again for the specified LVG Bottlenecks have occurred again on the back end e g library failure failure of all physical drives or lack of physical volumes Response The bot...

Page 481: ...set the status of the LV on the VLM and set the LV to accessible again on the PLM in the case of dual save this must be done in both groups SXPL063 PLM 63 ERROR Invalid PV file name of TL name was mov...

Page 482: ...e found Response Notify maintenance staff SXPS001 PLS 4001 ERROR PDS name robot error message Meaning The robot software does not know the LibDevName of the PDS name Response If the LibDevName of the...

Page 483: ...r in the VLP s etc hosts There is no system name SYSNAME in vtls conf in the VLP s etc hosts Client not defined in robot software AMU PC LMF Lite Server Robot problems Error in the configuration file...

Page 484: ...y restarted s after d tries Meaning s stands for PLS name e g PLS1 The PLS process s was automatically restarted after d attempts PLS 998 NOTICE s automatically restarted Meaning s stands for PLS name...

Page 485: ...ailed SXRD001 ALERT raidd 0 BBU pack not present SXRD001 ALERT raidd 0 BBU module not present SXRD001 ALERT raidd 0 BBU high temp SXRD001 ALERT raidd 0 BBU low voltage SXRD001 ALERT raidd 0 BBU cycles...

Page 486: ...e changed Critical Offline Meaning A further physical disk belonging to the logical disk 0 on controller 0 has failed The addressed logical disk is no longer accessible Response Notify maintenance sta...

Page 487: ...gical disk 0 on controller 0 has failed The addressed logical disk is no longer accessible Response Notify maintenance staff SXRD100 ALERT c50d0 RAID 1 Critical 17300 MB Write Back Meaning Logical dis...

Page 488: ...Error severity NOTICE information n 8 9 WARNING soft error n 6 7 ERROR error n 4 5 ALERT critical error n 2 3 raid id FibreCAT identification target of the 2 RAID controllers raid Number of the RAID...

Page 489: ...rdware fault can result in several different messages SXRD009 s80d RAID NOTICE Raid raid ccnt Controller OK Meaning When the monitoring daemon starts for example on reboot information is read from the...

Page 490: ...n logical device Meaning Access via the specified path is possible again positive message cf SXRD901 SXRD901 RAID ALERT raid id Hard SCSI Error 901 c ctrl t tgt l lun Where raid id ID of the FibreCAT...

Page 491: ...n SXRP005 RPLM 5 CRITICAL Physical Library Server name not reachable Meaning It was not possible to send a message to the PLS Response Check whether the PLS is functioning SXRP006 RPLM 6 NOTICE Physic...

Page 492: ...rror texts transferred in PDS error string and any actions to be taken are described in the section List of the error strings reported with PLM RPLM 16 on page 469 SXRP018 RPLM 18 ERROR PDS name repor...

Page 493: ...he command automatically If the message appears frequently check the device and or the communication path Notify maintenance staff if necessary SXRP022 RPLM 22 ERROR PLS reports VSN_NOEXIST on PDS PDS...

Page 494: ...it and notify the robot of the new VSN 9 2 17 SXSB Sadm Driver SCSI bus error SXSB001 chim1 sadm9 SCSI Bus reset None Meaning This message is part of a message complex see the section Bus Reset for SC...

Page 495: ...crash A crash dump was taken which was automatically saved in the var crash directory when the system was rebooted Response Notify maintenance staff 9 2 19 SXSD SCSI Disks driver shd SXSD010 shd k t...

Page 496: ...at the RAID system on page 541 9 2 20 SXSE EXABYTE Tapes SXSE005 WARNING exa out of spt deconfiguring exa Meaning The driver could not allocate any virtual adresses for IO mapping No tape devices will...

Page 497: ...via V3 logging SXSM001 sma Power supply Id is not present ALERT Meaning Redundant power supply module Id has not been installed Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM002 sma Power supply Id is presen...

Page 498: ...ll be reactivated after the wait time specified in the BIOS setup and the system started up This mechanism is governed by the ASR R Boot Delay and Boot Retry Counter entries in the BIOS setup A defect...

Page 499: ...correctable memory error has occurred in memory module Id Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM012 sma Uncorrectable Memory Error occurred Module Id ALERT Meaning An uncorrectable memory error has o...

Page 500: ...alled or has failed If the fan is inoperable for more than 3 minutes the SINIX system is shut down and the server deactivated to prevent the server from overheating Response Notify maintenance staff S...

Page 501: ...tify maintenance staff SXSM030 sma Warning temperature value degrees Celsius at sensor Id ALERT Meaning The temperature of sensor Id is in the warning range If a further temperature increase exceeds a...

Page 502: ...onse Notify maintenance staff SXSM034 sma Fan Id Unknown indicator for fan status value ALERT Meaning Fan Id has an undefined status value Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM034 sma Component Id Un...

Page 503: ...intenance staff SXSM038 sma Fan Id Fan prefailure ALERT Meaning Fan Id is no longer operating at full capacity and may soon break down Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM039 sma Memory Parity Error...

Page 504: ...44 sma Prefailure of Memory Module indicated Module Id ALERT Meaning A large number of correctable errors have occurred in memory module Id Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM045 sma PCI parity err...

Page 505: ...ff SXSM047 sma PCI Bus correctable error at slot id ALERT Meaning A correctable PCI bus error has occurred at slot number id Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM047 sma PCI Bus correctable error bus...

Page 506: ...Management has shut down This can be caused by the following a An unrecoverable error while the Server Management was running b An unrecoverable error while accessing the Primergy hardware firmware c...

Page 507: ...r is switched off to prevent the server from becoming too hot Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM056 sma Memory automatically throttled Module Id ALERT Meaning The memory performance performance ha...

Page 508: ...tenance staff iff the message continues to appear SXSM063 sma Recoverable thermal memory event occurred Module Id ALERT SXSM064 sma Fatal thermal memory error Module Id ALERT Meaning High temperatures...

Page 509: ...Server Management driver name is down Response Notify maintenance staff SXSM509 sma Internal error at HW access ALERT Meaning An error occurred during internal accesses to hardware components containi...

Page 510: ...could not be performed If the problem is temporary the write operation will be performed later If the problem remains until the system is shut down or the system crashes before the problem is rectifi...

Page 511: ...icient memory serious operational problems with standstill crash of the DTV system in this processor Response Notify maintenance staff SXTF004 WARNING dtv_binit illegal value val for variable var use...

Page 512: ...f SXTF004 WARNING dtv_balloc buf not enough memory Meaning An I O of the DTV could not be executed due to insufficient memory This is reported to the host as a media error The error may be of a tempor...

Page 513: ...DTV I O cache As a result operator message DTV 7 is output Response Notify maintenance staff SXTF005 NOTICE dtv_binit not enough physical memory SXTF005 NOTICE dtv_binit syssegsz size too small SXTF0...

Page 514: ...aj min i o error SXTF005 NOTICE dtv_sbflush maj min i o error SXTF005 NOTICE dtv_bp0flush maj min i o error SXTF005 NOTICE dtv_auhflush maj min i o error Meaning I O error when writing the following m...

Page 515: ...atus Response Notify maintenance staff if necessary SXTF009 ALERT fun cannot flush meta data to disk Meaning This class of error messages indicates that write operations on the metadata could not be p...

Page 516: ...2 vdrv n FAILOVER Error exit 0130002A E54EC000 See the section Failure of RAID systems on page 540 SXVD003 vdrv n MULTIPATH switch 0 n 2 1 n 1 SXVD003 vdrv n MULTIPATH switch 1 n 1 0 n 2 Meaning The p...

Page 517: ...not usually critical However you should check whether the volume exists and delete it in the PLM if necessary SXVL003 VLM 3 WARNING no space in cache mount of volume queued Meaning The mount job for...

Page 518: ...not found a data maintenance file but instead a backup data maintenance system It is possible that the file system containing the data maintenance system is not mounted Response Notify maintenance sta...

Page 519: ...for a logical volume has been queued because there is no more free space available in the cache file system The error occurs when the data is not saved to tape quickly enough e g in the event of PLM P...

Page 520: ...to the existing software status Response Notify maintenance staff SXVL023 VLM 23 ALERT X not accessible errmsg giving up Meaning Cache file system X cannot be accessed the VLM has been terminated Resp...

Page 521: ...omatically restarted Meaning The VLM was automatically restarted SXVL999 VLM 999 ALERT Auto restart d times failed Intervention required Meaning The VLM could not be restarted even after d attempts Ma...

Page 522: ...pped via a menu in the graphical user interface SXVS997 VLS 997 NOTICE s automatically restarted s after d tries Meaning s stands for VLS name e g VA02 VC03 The VLS process s was restarted automatical...

Page 523: ...t investigate why the SVLP is not available The SVLP and the AutoVLP failover function must be activated SXVW003 VLPWATCH NOTICE VW 003 AutoVLP Failover terminated VLPwatch is already started Meaning...

Page 524: ...W 008 AutoVLP Failover internal or external LAN connection is down terminated SXVW008 VLPWATCH ALERT VW 008 AutoVLP Failover please correct the LAN connection and reboot the system Meaning The interna...

Page 525: ...ALERT VW 014 AutoVLP Failover VLP isp_name is alive VLPwatch on isp_name not running Meaning The SVLP has detected that the VLP can be reached via the LAN but the VLPwatch daemon for the AutoVLP fail...

Page 526: ...oVLP Failover Failover defect configurate new terminated Meaning The AutoVLP failover function is in an undefined status Response Deconfigure the function distribute it and then reconfigure it SXVW018...

Page 527: ...The ISP is configured as an SVLP but is entered as a VLP in the AutoVLP communication sector Response An additional message is always output with this message The response specified there must be impl...

Page 528: ...P Failover please reconfigure this function Meaning In the boot phase it is ascertained that the AutoVLP failover function is to be activated but the communication sectors are empty the function is co...

Page 529: ...todo Meaning The switchover of SVLP to VLP has been completed and nothing needed to be done the current ISP is already the VLP This message can only occur after the AutoVLP failover function has been...

Page 530: ...ime on this ISP That is not permissible and is prevented SXVW041 VLPWATCH NOTICE VW 041 AutoVLP Failover lock error of etc vtls vlpwatch_started errno d terminated Meaning The AutoVLP failover functio...

Page 531: ...034 Response You must investigate the status of or fault on the failed VLP SXVW049 VLPWATCH ALERT VW 049 AutoVLP failover switch VLP_to_SVLP successfully completed Meaning The switchover of the VLP to...

Page 532: ...r the VLPwatch daemon is not running s SVLP is not alive s SVLP is not alive d Seconds s SVLP s is alive VLPwatch on s not running Response The SVLP must be checked and the AutoVLP function must be ac...

Page 533: ...XVW061 VLPWATCH NOTICE VW 061 AutoVLP Failover LAN_1 connection is UP on SVLP Meaning The SVLP has a connection to the external LAN again The AutoVLP failover function is once more fully operational S...

Page 534: ...stamp of the SVLP has not been updated for 5 minutes It is therefore assumed that a split brain situation exists The CentricStor side with the SVLP has failed or is no longer acces sible The VLP maste...

Page 535: ...e function s communication sectors have been destroyed Response The function must be deconfigured and once this has been done configured again If problems should occur when the configuration is change...

Page 536: ...Pwatch is configured but not activated Meaning The function is configured and has not yet been activated or has been deactivated manually via the interface or has been deactivated implicitly by vtcon...

Page 537: ...number will not be updated properly and information is lost Response You may use find usr inum 487921 print to find out which file was damaged The ls i command will report inode numbers also SXVX002 W...

Page 538: ...3 vendor 0x16 expl 0x00 reason 0x00 action 0x00 0007b790 freeing FC_E_ABORT_REQUESTED SXSD013 shd k t ctl TIMEOUT nnnnnnn shd k t ctl REZEROING shd k t ctl rezero status 2 Meaning The message complex...

Page 539: ...s being reset Ph_NonInit calling Ph_AbortDev Ph_AbortDev scanning for target t Ph_AbortDev calling Ph_ScbAbort adsl2 Ph_ScbAbort scb_ptr SP_MgrStat 00000040 OptimaAbort found abort active ready to sen...

Page 540: ...ls l dev vdrv total 0 brw 1 root other 76 13 May 15 15 44 raid1 st1 fo b crw 1 root other 76 13 May 15 15 44 raid1 st1 fo c brw 1 root other 76 26 May 15 15 44 raid1 st2 fo b crw 1 root other 76 26 M...

Page 541: ...ponding cable fails then this message sequence is displayed The RAID disk array involved is the disk array with the next highest minor number Example vdrv6 ls l dev vdrv total 0 brw 1 root other 76 13...

Page 542: ...ssages 9 3 5 Bus Reset for SCSI Controller SXCM001 chim1 sadm9 SCSI Bus reset None SXSB001 chim1 sadm9 SCSI Bus reset None SXSB005 chim1 sadm9 RESETTING CONTROLLER None Meaning A bus reset was trigger...

Page 543: ...has already become a tradition For more than ten years worn out computers have been taken back and recycled Even during construction great importance is attached to reuse of components and recycla bi...

Page 544: ...Eine Dokuschablone von Frank Flachenecker by f f 1992...

Page 545: ...tacting the Help Desk The telephone numbers for the Fujitsu Siemens Computers Help Desk can be found at the following URL http www fujitsu siemens com helpdesk When you call please have the serial num...

Page 546: ...Eine Dokuschablone von Frank Flachenecker by f f 1992...

Page 547: ...ough installation scripts This is described in the sections Installation on the Management Station CA Unicenter on page 552 and Working with CA Unicenter and CentricStor on page 554 12 1 1 Structure T...

Page 548: ...network and the IP address of the SNMP Management Station are stored under communities and add The only privilege required is READ The default Management Station with the public 0 0 0 0 NONE data shou...

Page 549: ...be overwritten Tcl Tk is installed in an arbitrary directory On Windows systems Tcl Tk is a part of GXCC It is not necessary to reboot after installation A README file is provided on the CS GUI CD fo...

Page 550: ...ions In addition to the standard traps linkUp linkDown coldStart etc CentricStor sends important error events concerning the software or the hardware to the Management Station as a trap Important key...

Page 551: ...reen CentricStor is ready 4 yellow A part of CentricStor is defective but CentricStor can go on working with restrictions 7 red CentricStor cannot work correctly A MIB call for returning the CentricSt...

Page 552: ...popup menu which serves and monitors CentricStor V2 V3 0 too Only new V3 1 options of GXCC lead to an error message CentricStor V2 V3 0 and V3 1 can thus be monitored by the same Management Station wi...

Page 553: ...ified the two responses are equivalent no ResetDSM is performed and therefore no reconfiguration of the CA Unicenter agent technology The ResetDSM command must then be issued later If yes is specified...

Page 554: ...with CA Unicenter and CentricStor 12 1 5 1 CentricStor icon under CA Unicenter The following icon was selected for CentricStor in 3 D format It contains the texts Fujitsu Siemens and CentricStor In th...

Page 555: ...to CA Unicenter a CentricStor System is automatically recognized in the Unicenter Discovery and is assigned to the fscCentricStor class with the appropriate icon To do this Unicenter must work with th...

Page 556: ...ditional binding interface etc A text message is shown for the enterprise specific trap of a CentricStor Example of an error message text of a CentricStor component SXIB300 2004 12 15 14 09 13 VLP0 IB...

Page 557: ...ter add ons are installed as described The V3 1 systems can be monitored as described The V2 V3 0 systems are initially recognized as SiemensUX systems and can then be assigned to the class fscCentric...

Page 558: ...After the section my official domain name define this only if sendmail Dj w Foo COM you must enter the following lines Dw node name Dm name of the customer domain Dj w m 2 If the mail host smarterhos...

Page 559: ...usr lib tcpip so usr lib resolv so A DNS entry must exist in the customer domain with the host name which returns uname n In CentricStor uname n does not return the name which the host has in the cust...

Page 560: ...e mail format specific configuration file Recipient Selection criterion Recipients Up to 8 recipients can be entered Example list with the recipients of the error information mail RECEIVER1 RECEIVER2...

Page 561: ...pecific configuration file must be stored under the following name usr apc conf msg_mail conf The content of the e mail can be defined using the configuration variables shown below System details Devi...

Page 562: ...e used for the temporary addition of the logical and physical volumes during the export and import These two groups cannot be reached or administered via the GUI PVs must therefore be added or removed...

Page 563: ...uery g should be used to check whether the transfer has terminated In this case 0 recover jobs may be outstanding in the TR LVG 2 Removing PVs from the CentricStor data maintenance system Figure 37 Re...

Page 564: ...cally added to the library with the aid of a DAS or ACSLS command see the section Library commands on page 571 2 Adding PVs in CentricStor and copying LVs Figure 38 Importing LVs The transfer in comma...

Page 565: ...CRATCH_HARD_MIN 2 PV_SCRATCH_MIN 1 Similarly to cleaning groups no configuration parameters are output in response to plmif query c No values for this group are forwarded to the InfoBroker While save...

Page 566: ...rejected LVs which are not known to the PLM are ignored message LV name is unknown not transferred Options t This option selects all LVs of an LVG which were stored during a time period HH MM defines...

Page 567: ...Vs tapelib jobs wait work Reorg PV 1 BASE stacked 0 0 0 P_HORN 0 0 2 PHORN stacked 0 0 0 P_HORN 0 0 3 P16 stacked 49 45 10010 TLIDP1 0 0 4 P19 stacked 66 64 10000 S1000 0 0 5 TR PVG transfer 2 1 3 S10...

Page 568: ...M nor do the associated PVs in the PVG TR PVG thus allowing the PVs to be removed from the physical library The special transfer volume groups are now empty and ready for the next transfer Example AZU...

Page 569: ...output when starting a transfer in AZUR VLP0 plmif query j G TR PVG dumping worklist pos name type PDS PV priority dyn static timestamp 1 RINIT PDSI 000348 0 0 21 11 2002 15 16 24 no entry in waitque...

Page 570: ...is used to skip an LV This is only possible if the PLM is waiting for a VLM restore request otherwise the command is rejected This is useful if the VLM does not know the LV concerned and the LV is no...

Page 571: ...RY UNIT INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ETERNUS LT270 Tape Library User s Guide ETERNUS LT270 Setup Guide ETERNUS LT270 Tape Library Maintenance Guide ejects cartridges from the AML via the eject area dasad...

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Page 605: ...ntation written by Eric Young eay cryptsoft com The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL This library is free for commercial and non commercial use as long as the following c...

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Page 609: ...section Automatic VLP failover on page 52 Battery Backup Unit BBU BBU Emergency power supply which in the event of a power outage retains the data which has not been saved in the memory for an unspeci...

Page 610: ...TCC Failover AutoVLP failover function FC Fibre Channel FC is a standard which was designed for serial and continuous high speed transfer of large volumes of data It is also used in the Storage Area N...

Page 611: ...idth for each connection The FC switches used for the internal SAN in the CentricStor VTA models have 16 24 or 32 ports Fibre Connectivity FICON Fibre Channel FC Fibre Channel Protocol FCP Fibre Chann...

Page 612: ...sal Processor is a synonym for ICP_IDP The predefined host names for this ISP type are IUP0 and IUP1 section ICP_IDP or IUP Integrated Universal Processor on page 29 IDP The IDP is the interface to th...

Page 613: ...gure 39 CentricStor configuration with 5 ISPs 2 ICPs 2 IDPs and one VLP IUP ICP_IDP LD A logical drive is a virtual non physical drive In CentricStor up to 64 logical drives can be operated per ICP Lo...

Page 614: ...V Physical Volume Group PVG PLM The PLM coordinates all requests for the peripherals connected robot systems tape drives The data management of the PLM contains information about where and on which ph...

Page 615: ...rface GUI SAN The entire data flow between all CentricStor components ISPs and external RAID systems is handled via an internal Starage Area Network SAN which can be configured redundantly It is imple...

Page 616: ...tored temporarily One or more RAID systems up to 8 are used for this purpose section RAID systems for the Tape Volume Cache on page 30 Virtual Library Manager VLM Virtual Library Processor VLP Virtual...

Page 617: ...d by a 32 768 byte Volume Header Volume Serial Number VSN VSN Name of the logical volume LV Any combination of up to 6 characters The following are permitted Alphabetic characters in upper case The sp...

Page 618: ...DP it combines the attributes of an ICP IDP and VLP In contrast to the ICP_IDP it is equipped with additional boards These boards and an internal RAID controller are used to configure an internal RAID...

Page 619: ...iting of a logical volume onto tape 36 Figure 11 Creating a directory on tape 36 Figure 12 Example of a reorganization 37 Figure 13 CentricStor after the VLM and PLM data maintenance have been created...

Page 620: ...groups 70 Figure 29 GXCC XTCC on the CentricStor ISPs example VTA 2000 5000 83 Figure 30 GXCC components with X11 server as remote computer 85 Figure 31 Components of GXCC with a remote computer not a...

Page 621: ...rive from STK Timberline 9840 Tape Drive from STK Eagle 9940 Tape Drive from STK ABBA x Tape Robot Family from adic GRAU ACF Automatic Cartridge Facility ACI AML Client Interface Interface to ABBA Rob...

Page 622: ...e Volume File System Filesystem on RAID Systems which contains the LVs in form of files The ISPs access dif ferent LVs at the same time EMU Virtual EMUlation of 3490E ESCD ESCON Director ESCON Enterpr...

Page 623: ...Device Processor ISP for connection of physical tape drives ISP Integrated Standard Pro cessor Common name for CS Server PCs ICP IDP VLP ITC Intelligent Tape Controller Smallest CentricStor Model KVM...

Page 624: ...and Interface PCI Peripheral Component In terconnect Bus standard for connecting peripherals with the chip set of a processor PD Physical Drive Physical drive hooked up to IDP PDS Physikalischer Devic...

Page 625: ...N Storage Area Network SAS Serial Attached SCSI Service Access System SBU Smart Backup Unit SCP Slave Control Process SCSI Small Computer System Interface SIM Service Information Mes sage Only used by...

Page 626: ...ary Manager Manages the logical components in the library VLP Virtual Library Processor PC on which the VT_LS services VLM VLS PLM PLS are running VLS Virtual Library Server Emulates different library...

Page 627: ...stems service console processor 3970 2x channel adapters 3970 and 3971 business server SR2000 C and enterprise data server DS2000 are ready for use This includes helpful information on configuring the...

Page 628: ...oftware product that in conjunction with the ABBA system controls automatic operation within a tape cartridge archiving system It describes the concept and mode of operation the user interfaces in BS2...

Page 629: ...Physical Volume s 223 XTCC profile 346 additional license 3595 RMT 91 ADIC AML systems 50 ADIC library 571 ADIC scalar systems 50 administration GXCC 193 AIX 32 analog operating data record 258 applic...

Page 630: ...1 monitoring structure 87 CentricStor icon 554 Change Logical Volume Group 209 circuit diagram GXCC 119 Clean File System 375 cleaning drives 81 cleaning cartridges add 225 outputting the data 282 cle...

Page 631: ...t Descriptors 382 Eternus 3000 4000 object information 412 evaluation model Global Status 254 Exceed setting 105 exporting tape cartridges 45 exporting volumes 562 extend virtual drives 52 F fabric Fi...

Page 632: ...tual Components 251 virtual drives 251 VLM 252 VLS 252 Global Status Monitor 257 Global System State 549 global system state 121 GLOBHIST 257 GLOBSTAT 257 graphic adapters 234 group display 356 abbrev...

Page 633: ...g volumes 562 inconsistencies 370 InfoBroker loss of connection 120 information GXCC elements 133 Integrated Universal Processor 29 Interaction Timeout 340 internal objects CD ROM 377 hard disk 376 IS...

Page 634: ...MGR message texts 441 messages console 441 metadata 31 migration concept 48 MIM 431 list 394 virtual devices 393 397 mirror daemon 438 Mirror status 127 MIRRORD 438 Mode file viewer 365 monitoring dae...

Page 635: ...rmance 249 Physical Components Global Status 254 physical drive s see also cartridge drives Physical Drives Show 277 Physical Volume Group s configuration 181 control parameters 286 statistics in Glob...

Page 636: ...SI controller 422 Rescan own Bus SCSI controller 422 rescue configurations after crash 168 residence 179 RMT key 91 robot systems depiction 132 object information 140 robots 234 S S80 object informati...

Page 637: ...SCSI Sense for tape drive 426 Service Info SIM 432 Short Trace 3490 emulation 387 SNMP Data 375 survey Delete snapshots 200 System Log klog msg 375 System Messages 158 Trace and Logging 436 Trace MSG...

Page 638: ...exporting and importing 45 tape drive function menu 425 global functions 432 information 423 Remove Symbols 433 Show Medium Info MIM 431 Show Mode Pages 427 Show SCSI Sense 426 Show Service Info SIM 4...

Page 639: ...obal functions 406 Global Status 252 information 405 Show Trace 406 VMD 251 control component 88 function menu 407 information 407 VOLSER 211 Volume logical 34 physical 34 volume 44 volume group conce...

Page 640: ...tions 336 Options Settings 336 Print 332 profile 344 Readme 348 Show Remote File 342 start 135 status bar 328 title bar 328 Toggle Aspect 337 Toggle Size 337 Tools 341 Unit 335 XUS Message Update Reve...

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