Hi Emanuel,         You can test an existing alarm or create a dummy alarm to see if it works.Use the cli dfm alarm test <alarmid> to tests. And open the alert.log inside the log folder you will find a message as follows. Aug 01 05:23:55 [DFMEvent: INFO]: alarm 3, event 22914, Alarm Test on w2k3e-x64-152: sending email alert to adaikkap@netapp.com. took 2 seconds. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Satinder,      These are the reports in Ops-Mgr that you get to see if PM is licensed. [root@lnx ~]# dfm report list | grep -i dataset   datasets                  Datasets   datasets-application-data Datasets   datasets-comments         Datasets   datasets-policy           Datasets As such there is no reporting wrt DR. Except for the failover rediness dashboard in the NMC Manage data-> Dashboard. And a new tab in Datasets->DisasterRecovery. Regards adai ... View more

Hi b) Do we have an opportunity with Protection Manager to run some “Pre” and “Post” script or commands for starting and stopping the database? yes use the backup script that can be run from the policy. [root@lnx ~]# dfpm policy node set Valid options are   nodeName                  Node Name   hourlyRetentionCount      Hourly Retention Count   hourlyRetentionDuration   Hourly Retention Duration   dailyRetentionCount       Daily Retention Count   dailyRetentionDuration    Daily Retention Duration   weeklyRetentionCount      Weekly Retention Count   weeklyRetentionDuration   Weekly Retention Duration   monthlyRetentionCount     Monthly Retention Count   monthlyRetentionDuration  Monthly Retention Duration   backupScriptPath          Backup Script Path<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<path for the script   backupScriptRunAs         Backup Script Run As<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<username with which the script should be run.   failoverScriptPath        Failover Script Path   failoverScriptRunAs       Failover Script Run As   snapshotScheduleId        Snapshot Schedule Id   snapshotScheduleName      Snapshot Schedule Name   lagWarningEnabled         Warning Lag Enabled   lagWarningThreshold       Warning Lag Threshold   lagErrorEnabled           Error Lag Enabled   lagErrorThreshold         Error Lag Threshold Regards adai ... View more

satheesh1 wrote: My questions: 1. My existing DFM server is 32 bit machine, will the database restore work on 64 bit machine seamlessly ? No issues. 2. Do you foresee any problem in above migration method ? just take care of the point that i mentionde below. 3. Do I need do anything with perf dir no... 4. We use PM  as well. Do you any known problems. PM schedules are run/scheduled as per the dfmserver timezone so make sure both are in the same timezone. Satty Hi Satty,      Pls take care of the following as they are not copied or contained in dfm backups. The following folders are not part of the archive-based backup: ❖ Reports This folder contains the output of scheduled reports. You can use the dfm options list reportsArchiveDir command to locate the reports folder. ❖ Plugins( copy if you have any additional plugin that is not installed in the new dfm server as part of installtion) This folder contains filer plugins. If you want these filer plugins in DataFabric Manager server 3.8, then make sure that you copy them manually to the new location. You can use the dfm options list pluginsDir command to locate the plugins folder. ❖ Data( this actually contains your db backups created via dfm backup create cli) This folder contains the DataFabric Manager database backups and the monitordb.db and monitordb.log files. You can use the dfm options list databaseBackupDir command to locate the data folder. Note You should not copy monitordb.db and montirodb.log files to DataFabric Manager server 3.8. ❖ DataExport This folder contains the output of "dfm data export" command. You can use the dfm options list dataExportDir command to locate the plugins folder. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Bob,             DFM currently does not do anything on reporting flexscale.But this can be achieved in dfm using the custom comment fields and script plugin feature of DFM. Give me a couple of day i will get you a sample script plugin for reporting flexscale. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Dan,      By web console do you mean Web Ui ? Disaster Recovery Tab or the NMC (Netapp Management Console?) If its Web UI then all volumes needs to be already created either using filerview or cli and also the destination volume needs to be restricted. Creation of volumes and restricting the volume cannot be done using DFM. Only Creation of SM relatiship and adding snapmirror schedule and failover policy can be done. But in the case of PM using NMC, destination volumes are automatically created and restricted and the SM relationship is created. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Steve, Hi Steve I would like to take this discussion in email rather than the public forum as some Information might be sensitive. Since Sybase hasn’t certified explicitly we haven’t tested that same here.But now there are talks on to whether to Support or not. PS: I am adding Raja the ops-mgr lead in the discussion. Regards adai ... View more

The answer is in your post itself. Since "Sybase does not explicitly test or certify" it has not been tested by QA so it isnt. Regards adai ... View more

The user name and password prompted in the dialogue box is that of the windows box on which the host agent is installed. Regards adai ... View more

It is also availabe at volume level.If set at volume level, it takes precedence than the global option. For all other volume for which its not set specifically, globabl options holds good. lnx186-149:~ # dfm volume set Valid options are   volFullThreshold          Volume Full Threshold (%)   volNearlyFullThreshold    Volume Nearly Full Threshold (%)   volFullThresholdInterval  Volume Full Threshold Interval   userEnableAlerts          Enable User Quota Alerts   userFullThreshold         User Quota Full Threshold (%)   userNearlyFullThreshold   User Quota Nearly Full Threshold (%)   volSnapshotFullThreshold  Volume Snap Reserve Full Threshold(%)   volNearlyNoFirstSnapThreshold Volume Nearly No First Snapshot Threshold(%)   volNoFirstSnapThreshold   Volume No First Snapshot Threshold(%)   volReserveNearlyDepletedThreshold Volume Space Reserve Nearly Depleted Threshold(%)   volReserveDepletedThreshold Volume Space Reserve Depleted Threshold(%)   volGrowthEventMinChangePct Volume Growth Event Minimum Change (%)   volNearlyOvercommittedThreshold Volume Quota Nearly Overcommitted Threshold (%)   volOvercommittedThreshold Volume Quota Overcommitted Threshold (%)   volSnapshotCountThreshold Volume Snapshot Count Threshold   volSnapshotTooOldThreshold Volume Too Old Snapshot Threshold   volNearlyOverDeduplicatedThreshold Volume Nearly Over Deduplicated Threshold (%)   volOverDeduplicatedThreshold Volume Over Deduplicated Threshold (%) lnx186-149:~ # Regards adai ... View more

yes dfm can run on windows or linux. autogrow is an options at volume level. You will have to drill down to each volume of the aggr.Its not available at aggr level. Regards adai ... View more

yes. Below is an example for volume full. lnx186-149:~ # dfm eventtype list -C "df.kbytes" Event Name                                         Severity     Class -------------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------------ volume-almost-full                            Warning      df.kbytes volume-full                                   Error        df.kbytes volume-space-normal                           Normal       df.kbytes lnx186-149:~ # The events uses the following thresholds values which are set using the below options. lnx186-149:~ # dfm options list | grep -i volFullThreshold volFullThreshold                      90 volFullThresholdInterval              0 seconds lnx186-149:~ # dfm options list | grep -i volNearlyFullThreshold volNearlyFullThreshold                80 lnx186-149:~ # you can also modify the severity of an event if you wish. using the  cli as shown below. lnx186-149:~ # dfm eventType list volume-almost-full Event Name                                         Severity     Class -------------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------------ volume-almost-full                            Warning      df.kbytes lnx186-149:~ # dfm eventType modify -v Normal volume-almost-full Modified event "volume-almost-full". lnx186-149:~ # dfm eventType list volume-almost-full Event Name                                         Severity     Class -------------------------------------------------- ------------ ------------------ volume-almost-full                            Normal       df.kbytes lnx186-149:~ # ... View more

you must qualify the aggr name with the filer name as filername:aggrname or better use the id of the aggr which can be obtained from dfm aggr list Can you also get the report for the following dfm report view volumes-autosize-details < aggr name/id> as autogrow turned on is also considered for aggr overcommmit calculation. ... View more

Hi Michael,      Can you get the output of the following report for your aggr ? To see why it is overcommitted ? dfm report view volumes-space-guarantees <aggr name/id> Regards adai ... View more

eells wrote: Yes, I noticed that volumes, aggregates, etc... can be deleted, but that there is not a similar option for the "dfm interface" command.  So - there is no way to delete the interface (cli or otherwise) as an object?  Or in any other way stop the flow of events for these interfaces? Correct? Yes. ... View more

Events for an object can be stopped if they are deleted from dfm. Say for example a volume( for which you dont want to get any events) then you can delete the same by dfm volume delete <name or id> similarly for filer. Unfortunatley there is no cli to delete an interface. We only have dfm interface list. Man pages can be accessed from the following link in Web UI. http://<dfm server name or IP address>/help/dfm.htm#%3E%3Ecmd=1%3E%3Epan=2 Regards adai ... View more

Hi Mike,      Even i am facing the same problem when i access the ~snapshot directory. But there is an options to change the"colon" in the snapshots names to "hypen" after which the snaphost names in the ~ snaphot directory appears fine. Please find attached the screenshot of my snapshot directory with old and new name. By default the options value is no change it to yes. C:\>dfm options set pmUseSDUCompatibleSnapshotNames=yes Changed use snapshot name compatible with SnapDrive for unix for snapshot created by the protection manager to Yes. C:\> Regards adai ... View more

Hi Chris,      Backup manger and Disaster Recovery Manager are EOA. Pls ask you customer to use Protection Manger.Using PM you can import an existing relationship. PM will take care of disabling all snap scheduling. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Mike,      The timestamp comes handy when the source and destination filer are across timezones and you wish to schedule your dataset backup in a particular timezone. For example my dataset is in GMT but my filers are in IST so my dataset backup schedules are run on GMT. C:\>dfpm dataset list -x 5221 Id:                              5221 Name:                            Cust Policy:                          Back up, then mirror Description:                     Testing for burt+cust Owner:                           Adaikkappan Contact:                         adaikkap@netapp.com Volume Qtree Name Prefix:        Timestamp DR Capable:                      No Requires Non Disruptive Restore: No Node details:    Node Name:              Primary data    Resource Pools:         Primary_RP    Provisioning Policy:    pri_pol    Time Zone:              GMT    DR Capable:             No    vFiler:    Export Protocol:        mixed    NFS Protocol Version:   v3    Disable setuid:         1    Anonymous Access UID:   0    Read-only Hosts:        None    Read-write Hosts:       All    Root-access Hosts:      None    Security Flavors:       sys    CIFS Domain:            BTCLAB    CIFS Share Permissions: Everyone:full_control    Node Name:           Backup    Resource Pools:      Backup_RP    Provisioning Policy: sec_pol    Time Zone:    DR Capable:          No    vFiler:    Node Name:           Mirror    Resource Pools:      Mrr_RP    Provisioning Policy:    Time Zone:    DR Capable:          No    vFiler: C:\> lnx186-149:/ # snap list Timestamp Volume Timestamp working...   %/used       %/total  date          name ----------  ----------  ------------  -------- 13% (13%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:56  dfpm_base(Cust.5221)conn1.0 (snapvault,acs) 28% (19%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:56  2009-07-08 15:28:54 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< timestamp 42% (25%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:51  dfpm_base(Cust.5221)conn1.1 (snapvault) 49% (19%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:51  2009-07-08 15:23:59 weekly_f3050-184-38_Timestamp.-.qt_cust<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<times are different. 71% (60%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:40  dfpm_base(Cust.5221)conn1.2 72% (12%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:40  2009-07-08 15:13:06 monthly_f3050-184-38_Timestamp.-.qt_cust lnx186-149:/ # If you see in the above output the weekly snapshot timestamp is different from the date output of the file. 49% (19%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:51  2009-07-08 15:23:59 weekly_f3050-184-38_Timestamp.-.qt_cust But unfortunately the timestamps cant be turned off like the other options. 28% (19%)    0% ( 0%)  Jul 08 20:56  2009-07-08 15:28:54 The snaphost and volume naming can be controlled by the below options. C:\>dfm options list | grep -i pmcus pmCustomNameUseHostName               No pmCustomNameUsePrefix                 Yes pmCustomNameUseQtreeList              No pmCustomNameUseRetentionType          No pmCustomNameUseType                   No pmCustomNameUseVolumeName             No C:\> In this case the snaphost will only have the timestamp( ie it cant be turned off) Regards adai ... View more

Feature wise there is no difference between 3.7 and 3.7.1 Only difference is 3.7 is a FCS release and 3.7.1 is a GA release. PS:for future queries related to DFM/Operation-Mgr/Provisioning-Mgr/Performance Advisor pls use the storage management communities Regards adai ... View more

yes. it doesn't allow you to import existing relationship but does allow creating from scratch and managing the same. ... View more

Hi Dave,      Even now Protection Manger supports Snapvault of entire volume(irrespective of qtree is there or not.) What protection manger does is that, it treats those data that is  inside the volume but not the qtree as non-qtree data represented by <filername>:/<volumename>/<qtreename> in case of non qtree the qtree name is replaced with "-" Example. filername:/vin1_root/- So you can still protect your ,TBs of VMware datastores within flexvols without qtrees using protection manager. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Pierre,      No.Its not a limitation of PM. Use the "hostPreferredAddr1" "hostPreferredAddr2" in the dfm host set command for creating preferred connection for snapmirror.relatinships. lnx186-101: # dfm host set 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   perfAdvisorDisabledCounterGroups Perf Advisor Disabled Counter Groups   defaultvFilerInterface    Host vFiler Default Interface   processHostIP             Primary IP Address Inconsistency Action lnx186-101: # ... View more