I learned from ONTAP guides that things written to file under /etc are persistent across reboots, which I tried and tested. Also interesting thing that I found during the test is that after every reboot you need to repeat step 8 of sinhaa. hostname <new_name> Otherwise it reverts back to the name as per the setup command. So I don't think it a viable solution for hostrename.(esp Incase of HA pairs, give back and take over happens) Regards adai ... View more

/etc/hosts entries are not persistent across reboots. Do run the setup command on the filer and do it, to be on the safer side. Since its a cluster bringing the partner down would be handled. ... View more

You can find the information related to the same in the following FAQ. 3.2 Can I format user quota alerts in HTML? ... View more

what will windows DFM admin do ? Will  the commad work ? Perl makes it OS agnostic. ... View more

Hi Rick,           Attached is a simple script written by one of my collegues, to acknowledge and delete dfm events. What you may do is comment out the delete part and use it. Regards adai PS: The credit goes to the owenr of the script  Prasad S. ... View more

The change is around the corner, you should see this in the coming release of OnCommand. Regards adai ... View more

Can you get us the output of the following ? Dfm volume list –a | wc –l and dfm volume list |wc –l Dfm qtree list –a | wc –l and dfm qtree list |wc –l Dfm lun list –a | wc –l and dfm lun list | wc –l If the difference in count of the two is more than 2x that could explain why your snapshot backup is consuming more space. Open a case with NGS and prune your perf data. And dfm db, which will reduce your Storage requirement for snapshot based backup. It’s the only way, IIRC only Performance Advisor data is not collected during the entrie duration of the backup. Others work. Regards adai ... View more

Do, dfm options list | grep -i moninterval. [root@lnx~]# dfm options set hostRBACMonInterval=off Changed host RBAC monitoring interval to Off. [root@lnx ~]# In fact,you can turn off all monitoring other than discovery ones.provided you are going to dedicate, this only for performance advisor. regards adai ... View more

This happens automatically today IIRC. Regards adai ... View more

Do those filers act as destination for snapvault/snapmirror relationships ? Is protection manger/bizcon licenesed in the dfm server ? If both these are true, what's the file sizes of the snapmirrorlog* files in the filer ? Regards adai ... View more

IF you have DFM/Operations Manager, you have a report like this.See the below NTN link for the same. http://communities.netapp.com/message/54087#54087 Regards adai ... View more

There is no way today in DFM to disable a particular event or monitor for a specific filer. Though disabling complete monitoring of specific filer/vfiler can be done.(ie ignored.) As  suggested by kjag, changing the severity of the event is one way, but  it affect globally on all filers and not just the one you like to. As  said by sinhaa, you will get this event only once, as we keep  generating such events only when the state changes, from up to down or  vice versa.Ack for the first time and forget. Third, way is to delete the filer or vfiler from dfm using dfm filer delete or dfm vfiler delete cli. But  this will stop monitoring for the entire filer or vfiler, all events  and even discovery of new volumes or qtrees on those filer or vfiler. Hope now you know when to use what. If you would like to ignore false alerts from a filer/vfiler which is scheduled for maintenance, then go with third approach. Once maintenance is over re-add the filer/vfiler using dfm filer add or vfiler add.Untill its readded no events /discovery happens for that filer/vfiler. Regards adai ... View more

If the following option is enabled and the secondary volume(backup or mirror destination ) was provisioned by Protection Manager, then growth of primary is taken care by PM before every update. In case of SnapVault and QtreeSnapMirror, its resized to 1.32x of the source volume size before every update/replication. In case of VSM its taken care as during the initial provisioning of the volume, its created with guarantee set to none and sized to the aggr. Regards adai ... View more

Yes its applies for any kind of relationship, SV,QSM,VSM,OSSV. Yes when conform now is done it would do rebaseline for all rels that require, rebaseline. Regards adai ... View more

4.0.2 is the latest DFM version which has all D patches of 4.0 and 4.0.1 rolled up into one. Regards adai ... View more

QUESTIONS: 1.     Is it possible to configure DFM to just be a Performance Advisor system only ( turn off all un-needed monitoring or functions ) which can allow PA to still gather performance stats?  A bare-bones PA system I can think of switching off the following monitoring.dfmon and ccmon hostRbacmon and userquota mon, which are not required by PA. 2.     On the system performing monitoring and alerting; can we blow away the performance advisor database? PA data is not stored in db they are stored as flat files in the perfdir,the location of which, can be got from the output of dfm about cli. 3.     They are going to use two modern servers - 24 cores, 24 GB RAM; questions they are asking is will DFM take advantage of the cores on the system; DFM about detects them but does it actually use "more than one core"? we use all available cores Regards adai ... View more

HostAgent is not mandatory for manging OSSV in PM. Having HA only allows to start and stop OSSV service from PM. You select the option of add with out NetApp Host Agent in the OSSV host add page of NMC. Regards adai ... View more

Do they use quotas ? If yes, then that give exactly what the customer wrote irrespective of the dedupe savings. As user/tree/group quotas work on the logical level and dedupe on the block level. Regards adai ... View more

The snapshot names has a format  and can be controlled using the following options in Protection Manager. [root@lnx ~]# dfm options list | grep -i pmcus pmCustomNameUseHostName               Yes----------Removes Host name from snapshot when disabled. pmCustomNameUsePrefix                 Yes pmCustomNameUseQtreeList              Yes-------------Remove qtree name from snapshot when disabled. pmCustomNameUseRetentionType          Yes-----------Removes Retention-Type from snapshot when disabled pmCustomNameUseType                   Yes pmCustomNameUseVolumeName             Yes----------Removes volume name from snapshot when disabled. [root@lnx ~]# The format is as follows. <timestamp><retention-type>_<host>_<volume>.[<qtree>....]; Timestamp cant be disabled but all others can be. Regards adai ... View more

These counters are in diag mode. Regards adai ... View more

Hi      Performance Advisor Data is not store in db, its stored in flat files. The TR listed in the top most post,say how to access PA data. http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3690.pdf else you can use the dfm perf data reterive to get what you want.This is explained in the below post. http://communities.netapp.com/message/52507#52507 Regards adai ... View more

But all these check are not done on imported volumes, that what my test says. Regards adai ... View more

Use the dfm host set  cli. dfm host set <ossv host name/id> processHostIP= <options value> The valid values are The valid values are 'off', 'warn' or 'error' [root@lnx ~]# dfm host set -q Valid options are   hostLogin                 Login   hostPassword              Password   hostLoginProtocol         Login Protocol   hostPreferredAddr1        Preferred IP address 1   hostPreferredAddr2        Preferred IP address 2   hostPrimaryAddress        Primary IP Address   hostRLMAddress            Remote Platform Management IP Address   hostConsoleAddress        Console Terminal Server Address   cpuTooBusyThreshold       Host CPU Too Busy Threshold (%)   cpuBusyThresholdInterval  Host CPU Busy Threshold Interval   hostPingMethod            Ping Method   hostAdminTransport        Administration Transport   hostNdmpLogin             NDMP Login   hostNdmpPassword          NDMP Password   hostAdminPort             Administration Port   hbaportTooBusyThreshold   HBA Port Too Busy Threshold (%)   hostAgentCIFSAccount      Agent CIFS Account   hostAgentCIFSPassword     Agent CIFS Password   perfAdvisorTransport      Performance Advisor Transport   prefsnmpVersion           Preferred SNMP Version   useHostsEquiv             Hosts.equiv Enabled   maxActiveDataTransfers    Maximum Active Data Transfers   perfDataExportEnabled     Performance Advisor Data Export Enabled   defaultvFilerInterface    Host vFiler Default Interface processHostIP             Primary IP Address Inconsistency Action   autoClientStatEnabled     Automatically collect per-client statistics [root@lnx ~]# Regards adai ... View more

Pete correct me if I am wrong, all of what you said only applies when we try to add the secondary volume as physical resource to the dataset and not on import.That's what I remember. Regards adai ... View more