Here is the FAQ about the same. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/DFM_win/rel40/html/faq/index.shtml#_21.4 Regards adai ... View more

Hi, What is the value for the following option? dfm options list SMTPServerName Option Value ... View more

Hi, Even I have the same question. Sometimes it uses the FQDN and sometimes the short name. This is especially confusing in the case of SnapVault or SnapMirror relationships as to which name dfm uses to connect between the source and destination filer. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Scott,      The best practice is to setup email alerts for the management station event. Below is the important list of management station events. [root@lnx ~]# dfm eventtype list | grep -i free management-station:enough-free-space          Normal       dfm.free.space management-station:filesystem-filesize-limit-reached Error        dfm.free.space management-station:not-enough-free-space      Error        dfm.free.space management-station:perf-advisor-enough-free-space Normal       dfm.perfAdvisor.free.space management-station:perf-advisor-not-enough-free-space Error        dfm.perfAdvisor.free.space [root@lnx ~]# The other places to look for the same is output of dfm about. O/p Sanitized to post here. [root@lnx ~]# dfm about Version                          4.0 (4.0D1) Serial Number                    XXXXXXXXXXXX Administrator Name               root Host Name                        lnx186-223 Host IP Address                  XXXXXXXXXXXX Host Full Name                   lnx186-223.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Operations Manager Node limit    999 (currently managing 3) Provisioning Manager Node Limit  999 (currently managing 0) Protection Manager Node Limit    999 (currently managing 2) Operating System                 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) 2.6.9-42.ELsmp i686 CPU Count                        1 System Memory                    2026 MB (load excluding cached memory: 58%) Installation Directory           /opt/NTAPdfm                                  3.94 GB free (31.0%)<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Here you would find Error Instead of free. The next place is dfm diag | grep -i management which shows the events that are generated on the management stations. The dfmserver.log also has this info of monitoring is suspended to due the space issue. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Paul,      If you dont wish to change the snmp community on the filer add each of the community in dfm using the following command. [root@lnx ~]# dfm snmp add help NAME     add -- Specify credentials and community name for SNMP discovery and monitoring on this network. SYNOPSIS     dfm snmp add [ -m mask ] [ -v prefsnmpVersion ] [ -c communityName ]         [ -U <hostLogin> -P <hostPassword> ] [ -A <authProtocol> ]         [ -X <privPassword> ] <address> DESCRIPTION     -v: Possible values are 1 and 3. Default value         is 1. If specified as 3, then hostLogin and         hostPassword is mandatory. If specified as 1,         then communityName is mandatory.         For discovery, the value in this option will be         tried first. If it fails then the other SNMP version         will be tried if it has not been disabled. However         note that for monitoring, only the version specified         in this option will be tried.     -U: The name of the user to be used for SNMPv3         discovery and monitoring. Mandatory when         prefsnmpVersion is 3.     -P: The authentication password to be used for         SNMPv3 communication. Value must be a string greater         than or equal to 8 characters. Mandatory when         hostLogin is specified.     -m: Can be either dotted mask/prefix length in case of         IPv4 address, and prefix length in case of         IPv6 address.     -A: Authentication protocol for use with SNMPv3. Valid values are MD5 and         SHA. If not specified, MD5 is the default value.     -X: Privacy password used for encrypting SNMPv3 communication.         DES protocol is used for encryption. [root@lnx~]# Regards adai ... View more

Hi Phil, The true issue is that the resource error sets the dataset status to an error state as well. This means you no longer have a true 'at a glance' status when you look at the dataset screen. You have to select each dataset to see if it is a resource error. That is because the volume might be part of the Resource Pool. Resource Status is about the status of the Resource Pool that is attached to Dataset Node. Not just the members of the dataset that are from the resource pool, but for all, that are part of the resource pool. More over Overall status is an OR values of Protection/Conformance/Resource Status. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Phil,      The Resource Status is the worst possible status of all objects that are associated with the dataset(both directly and indirectly.) Say for example if your volume v1 comes from filer1 and the filer1's global status is critical due to one of the volumes on the filer using 100% of the inodes Event though V1 is not part of the dataset but volume v2 which is part of the dataset and belongs to filer1 affects the resource status of the dataset. Infact the admin should be more concerned about the protection and conformance status. Resource status is just to give an heads up that those which are not part of the dataset can cause the filer to go down or fail during CF takeover which will affect the dataset protection and conformance status. Btw can you attach the resource staus window with the event you are mentioning ? I guess the volume full is the global status non critical event of the filer. Regards adai ... View more

All dfm monitors have a default monitoring interval. So it takes time as its not event driven rather periodic polling. NMC take time to refresh it or you will have to move to some other page to make it refresh or close and open for immediate change in NMC. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Scott, Your Backup provisioning policy is enabled for "Controller Failure Reliability" I.e. for provisioning only on active active clusters. So can you run dfm host discover on both your active-active pair? So that dfm can discover that they are in active-active state. Close and open the NMC and try again? Regards adai ... View more

Its a closed community thats why. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Srikanth,           Its possible, just do the command as below. dfm report view <reportname> [<argument>]| grep -v Totals [root@lnx ~]# dfm report view storage-systems-capacity 98 Object ID Storage System                      Used     Total      Used (%) --------- ----------------------------------- -------- ---------- -------- 98        filer1 68257804 1918855376      3.6 Totals                                        68257804 1918855376      3.6 [root@lnx186-118 ~]# dfm report view storage-systems-capacity 98 | grep -v Totals Object ID Storage System                      Used     Total      Used (%) --------- ----------------------------------- -------- ---------- -------- 98        filer1 68257804 1918855376      3.6 [root@lnx~]# -l restrict the output to the nubmer of lines specifed by -l parameter. Else it will always dump the entire results for the report. Regards adai ... View more

Hi, When you migrate using SnapMirror, and import we will not be able to show the backup version in PM. Inspite of the snapshots being in the volume. Regards adai ... View more

Can you try to create one more dataset and just send us the dry run results? Can you also get us the output details of the below command from Primary and Secondary filers ? # dfm detail 98 | grep -i svPrimaryIsLicensed svPrimaryIsLicensed Yes # dfm detail 101 | grep -i svSecondaryIsLicensed svSecondaryIsLicensed Yes # Regards adai ... View more

Ok.Let me give you all the possiblity of how  PM decides to create SV/QSM relationships.Based on this check where you are. To create SV relationship using backup policy dataset (Not DR Backup policy as they always create QSM relationships irrespective of the below items.) 1.The options pmQSMBackupPreferred=no 2.The Source Filer must have sv_ontap_pri license. 3.The Destination fielr must have sv_ontap_sec license. 4.The Schedule should not be more frequent than an hour F all the above 4 condition are satisfied you dataset with Backup Policy will create SV. Even if one of them fails and SnapMirror was licensed it will create QSM. Also check this FAQ. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/DFM_win/rel40/html/faq/index.shtml#_16.1 Now coming to your second question. you can manually kickoff the monitors by running the below command. dfm host discover <filer name/id> Run this command on both source and destination. BTW what is the version of dfm you are running ? Regards adai. ... View more

Hi Scott,      You must make this option dfm options set  pmQSMBackupPreferred=no and not yes to make SV. Also after converting your relationships from QSM to SV how long did you wait ? Did the snapvault monitor run to discover the new SV relationship ? Regards adai ... View more

Reply via mail clipped off some part of the post. Even these monitors are running more frequently than default. cfTimestamp-----------------------------Cluster Failover Monitoring Interval       dfTimestamp-----------------------------Disk Free Space Monitoring Interval        diskTimestamp---------------------------Disk Monitoring Interval      ifTimestamp------------------------------Interface Monitoring Interval         snapmirrorTimestamp------------------SnapMirror Monitoring Interval statusTimestamp------------------------Global Status Monitoring Interval   sysInfoTimestamp------------------------System Information Monitoring Interval  Bring them back to default values. Regards adai ... View more

From your dfm diag. Services sql Error Unknown http Error Unknown eventd Error Unknown monitor Error Unknown scheduler Error Unknown server Error Unknown watchdog Error Unknown Looks like all services are not running. Can you check it with dfm service list? Regards adai ... View more

Yes, it will create a new relationship between the primary volume and the new secondary volume to be provisioned. But this will be a baseline transfer from the primary volume to new secondary volume. The old volume and its snapshots (Backups version) will be preserved and will expire as per the retention of the policy. Why don’t you try to use the Secondary Space Management feature of Protection Manager 4.0. This will migrate the existing secondary volume to whichever aggr you wish and at the same time the base line is from the old secondary and not for the primary. Also old backup versions are transferred to the new volume in this process, so you don’t need to have two volumes. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Scott, 1.       Take a look at our policy.  The restore wizard isn't displaying all the restore points that we’re expecting. Can you get the output of following commands to explain why you dont see, what you expect? dfpm policy node get <you dataset policy name> dfpm backup list <dsname> 2.       The restore points are not labeled (daily, weekly, etc).  They are labelled only in cli and not in UI. dfpm backup list <dsname> will have the retention types. What is the logic for that? Space crunch in the UI i guess. Regards adai ... View more

Did you take a look at the "Volume Snapshot Growth" report ? That gives Daily Snapshot Growth Rate and Daily Snapshot Growth(%) Regards adai ... View more

Hi Scott, The Discovery of new objects like volume happens in dfm every 15minutes by default. By PM I assume you mean NMC just go to some other page and come back NMC must refresh and show you the new volumes. As such today there is no polling interval in PM (NMC). Regards adai ... View more

Also can you get the dfm diag esp the object counts to see the nubmer of treequotas and userquotas ? Regards adai ... View more

Does this qtree belong to a vfiler ? Are quotas still set on the qtree ? Can you get the dfm detail output for the qtree and dfm event detail for the full utilisation of the qtree in question ? Regards adai ... View more