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Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 1 Introducing Symantec FileStore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

About FileStore ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

About FileStore features ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Simple installation .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Active/Active Scalable NFS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Active/Active CIFS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

NFS Lock Management (NLM) .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Administration .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Storage tiering .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

High-performance data replication .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Integrated content scanning using Symantec AntiVirus for

FileStore ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

About the core strengths of FileStore ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

FileStore key benefits and other applications ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

High performance scaling and seamless growth .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

High availability ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Consolidating and reducing costs of storage .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Enabling scale-outcompute clusters and heterogeneous sharing

of data ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

FileStore on the Web .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the FileStore product documentation .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 2 Creating users based on roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

About user roles and privileges ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

About the naming requirements for adding new users ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

About using the FileStore command-line interface ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Logging in to the FileStore CLI ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

About accessing the online man pages ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

About creating Master, System Administrator, and Storage

Administrator users ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating Master, System Administrator, and Storage Administrator

users ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

About the support user ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Configuring the support user account ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Displaying the command history .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Chapter 3 Displaying and adding nodes to a cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49About the cluster commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

About FileStore installation states and conditions ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Displaying the nodes in the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

About adding a new node to the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Installing the FileStore software onto a new node .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Adding a node to the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Deleting a node from the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Shutting down the cluster nodes ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Rebooting the nodes in the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Chapter 4 Configuring storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

About storage provisioning and management ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

About configuring storage pools ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Configuring storage pools ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

About configuring disks ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Configuring disks ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

About performing local replication initialization .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Detachingone or more pools from the FileStore cluster as a detached

pool set ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Displaying detached pools ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Attaching a replication storage pool to a FileStore cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

About displaying information for all disk devices ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Displaying information for all disk devices associated with nodes in

a cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Increasing the storage capacity of a LUN .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Formatting/reinitializing a disk ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Printing WWN information .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Initiating FileStore host discovery of LUNs .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Importing pools forcefully ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

About I/O fencing .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Configuring I/O fencing .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

About quotas for file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using quota commands for enabling, disabling, and displaying file

system quotas ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Using quota commands for setting and displaying file system

quotas ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

About quotas for CIFS home directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Using quotas for CIFS home directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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Displaying the quota values for CIFS home directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

About iSCSI ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Configuring the iSCSI initiator ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Configuring the iSCSI initiator name .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Configuring the iSCSI device ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Configuring discovery on iSCSI ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

About configuring the iSCSI targets ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Configuring the iSCSI targets ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

About data archive and retention (DAR) ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

How DAR interacts with other FileStore applications ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Configuring data archive and retention .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Chapter 5 Configuring Symantec FileStore networksettings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

About network mode commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Displaying the network configuration and statistics ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

About bonding Ethernet interfaces ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Bonding Ethernet interfaces ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

About DNS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Configuring DNS settings ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

About IP commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

About configuring IP addresses ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Configuring IP addresses ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

About configuring Ethernet interfaces ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Displaying current Ethernet interfaces and states ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Configuring Ethernet interfaces ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

About configuring routing tables ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Configuring routing tables ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

About LDAP .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Before configuring LDAP settings ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

About configuring LDAP server settings ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Configuring LDAP server settings ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

About administering FileStore cluster's LDAP client ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Administering the FileStore cluster's LDAP client ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

About NIS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Configuring the NIS-related commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

About NSS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Configuring NSS lookup order ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

About VLAN interfaces ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Configuring VLAN interfaces ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

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Chapter 6 Configuring your NFS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

About NFS server commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Accessing the NFS server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Displaying NFS statistics ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Displaying file systems and snapshots that can be exported .... . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Chapter 7 Creating and maintaining NFS shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

About NFS file sharing .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Displaying exported directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Adding an NFS share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Sharing directories using CIFS and NFS protocols ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Exporting an NFS snapshot ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Unexporting a directory or deleting NFS options ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Chapter 8 Creating and maintaining file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

About creating and maintaining file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Listing all file systems and associated information .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

About creating file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Creating a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Adding or removing a mirror to a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Configuring FastResync for a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Disabling the FastResync option for a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Increasing the size of a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Decreasing the size of a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Checking and repairing a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Changing the status of a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Defragmenting a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Destroying a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

About snapshots ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Creating snapshots ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Displaying snapshots ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Configuring snapshots ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

About snapshot schedules ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Creating snapshot schedules ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Displaying snapshot schedules ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Configuring snapshot schedules ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

About instant rollbacks ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Creating a FileStore space-optimized rollback .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Creating a full-sized rollback .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Listing FileStore instant rollbacks ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Restoring a file system from an instant rollback .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

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Refreshing an instant rollback from a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Making an instant rollback go online ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Making an instant rollback go offline ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Destroying an instant rollback .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224Creating a shared cache object for a FileStore instant

rollback .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Listing cache objects for a FileStore instant rollback .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Destroying a cache object of a FileStore instant rollback .... . . . . . . . . . . 227

About setting up file system alerts for file system usage .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Setting file system alerts ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Unsetting file system alerts ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Displaying file system alerts ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

About the Partition Secure Notification (PSN) feature ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Enabling the Partition Secure Notification (PSN) feature ... . . . . . . . . . . 231

Disabling the Partition Secure Notification (PSN) feature ... . . . . . . . . . . 231Listing the online file systems that have the Partition Secure

Notification (PSN) feature enabled .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Chapter 9 Using Symantec FileStore as a CIFS server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

About configuring FileStore for CIFS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

About configuring CIFS for standalone mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Configuring CIFS server status for standalone mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

About configuring CIFS for NT domain mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Configuring CIFS for the NT domain mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

About leaving an NT domain .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Changing NT domain settings ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Changing security settings ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Changing security settings after the CIFS server is stopped .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

About Active Directory (AD) ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Configuring entries for NTP for authenticating to Active

Directory (AD) ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Configuring entries forFileStoreDNSforauthenticating to Active

Directory (AD) ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Joining FileStore to Active Directory (AD) ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Verifying that FileStore has joined Active Directory (AD)successfully ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode .... . . . . . . 253

Configuring CIFS for the AD domain mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Using multi-domain controller support in CIFS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

About leaving an AD domain .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Changing domain settings for AD domain mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Removing the AD interface ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

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About setting NTLM ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Setting NTLM ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

About setting trusted domains ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an LDAPIDMAP backend to rid ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an LDAP

IDMAP backend to ldap .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Allowing trusted domains access to CIF when setting an LDAP

IDMAP backend to hash .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

About configuringWindowsActive Directory as an LDAP IDMAP

backend for FileStore for CIFS .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Configuring the Active Directory schema with CIFS-schema

extensions .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Configuring LDAP as an IDMAP backend using the FileStore

CLI ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Configuring the CIFS server with the LDAP backend .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Setting Active Directory trusted domains ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

About storing account information .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Storing user and group accounts ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

About reconfiguring the CIFS service ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Reconfiguring the CIFS service ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

About managing CIFS shares ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

About the CIFS export options ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Setting share properties ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Displaying CIFS share properties ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288Allowing specified users and groups access to the CIFS

share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Denying specified users and groups access to the CIFS

share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Modifying an existing CIFS share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Modifying an existing CIFS share with different CIFS

options ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Exporting a CIFS snapshot ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Deleting a CIFS share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Sharing file systems using CIFS and NFS protocols ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

About mapping user names for CIFS/NFS sharing .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297About load balancing for the normal clustering mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

About load balancing for the ctdb clustering mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Splitting a CIFS share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

About managing home directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Setting the home directory file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Setting up home directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Displaying home directory usage information .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

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Deleting home directories and disabling creation of home

directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

About ctdb clustering modes ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Exporting a directory as a CIFS share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310Exporting the same file system/directory as a different CIFS

share ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

About switching the clustering mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Switching from normal to ctdb clustering mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Switching from ctdb to normal clustering mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

About migrating CIFS shares and home directories ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

MigratingCIFS shares andhome directoriesfrom normal to ctdb

clustering mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

MigratingCIFS shares andhome directoriesfrom ctdb to normal

clustering mode .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Setting the aio_fork option .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324Setting the netbios aliases for the CIFS server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

About managing local users and groups .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Creating a local CIFS user ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

About configuring local groups .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Configuring a local group .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Chapter 10 Configuring your FTP server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

About FTP .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Displaying FTP server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

About FTP server commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Using the FTP server commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

About FTP set commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Using the FTP set commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Implementing all of the FTP> set command changes ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

About FTP session commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using the FTP session commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Using the FTP logupload command .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

About FTP local user commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Using the FTP local user commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

About FTP local user set commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351Using the FTP local user set commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Chapter 11 Configuring your HTTP server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

About configuring your HTTP server for accessing FileStore

data ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

About using the HTTP server commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Starting the HTTP server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

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Stopping the HTTP server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Displaying the status for the HTTP server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

About HTTP set commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Displaying the current HTTP sessions on each node .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363Setting theminimum numberof idle threads forhandling request

spikes ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Setting themaximum numberof idle threads forhandlingrequest

spikes ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Setting the maximum number of threads to be created .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Setting the initial number of server threads ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Setting the maximum number of threads in each server

process ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Displaying the list of all configurable HTTP options and their

values ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

About HTTP alias commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365Adding a mapping from a virtualPath to a realPath .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Deleting a mapping that is visible to clients as a virtualPath .... . . . . . 367

Displaying all the aliases configured on the server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

About HTTP document root mapping commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Setting the root directory for the HTTP server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Displaying the current root directory for the HTTP server ... . . . . . . . . 368

Chapter 12 Configuring event notifications and audit logs . . . . . . . . . . . 369

About configuring event notifications and audit logs ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

About severity levels and filters ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

About email groups .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Configuring an email group .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

About syslog event logging .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Configuring a syslog server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Displaying events on the console ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

About SNMP notifications ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Configuring an SNMP management server ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Configuring events for event reporting .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Exporting events in syslog format to a given URL .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

About audit logs ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387Configuring audit logs ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Disabling the audit log for a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Chapter 13 Configuring backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

About backup .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

About NetBackup .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

About the NetBackup snapshot client ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

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About NetBackup snapshot methods .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

About NetBackup instant recovery .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

About Fibre Transport ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

About SAN clients ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397About FT media servers ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

About the FT Service Manager ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

About zoning the SAN for Fibre Transport ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

About HBAs for SAN clients and FT media servers ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

About connecting the fiber for SAN Client ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Adding a NetBackup master server to work with FileStore ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Configuring or changing the virtual IP address used by NetBackup

and NDMP data server installation .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Configuring the virtual name of NetBackup .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

About Network Data Management Protocol ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

About NDMP supported configurations ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405About the NDMP policies ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Configuring the NDMP policies ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Displaying all NDMP policies ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

About retrieving the NDMP data ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Retrieving the NDMP data ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Restoring the default NDMP policies ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

About backup configurations ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Configuring backup .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Configuring backups using NetBackup or other third-party backup

applications ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Chapter 14 Configuring Symantec FileStore Dynamic StorageTiering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

About FileStore Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

How FileStore uses Dynamic Storage Tiering .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

About policies ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

About adding tiers to file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Adding tiers to a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Removing a tier from a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

About configuring a mirror on the tier of a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429Configuring a mirror to a tier of a file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Listing all of the files on the specified tier ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Displaying a list of DST file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Displaying the tier location of a specified file ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

About configuring the policy of each tiered file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Configuring the policy of each tiered file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434

Relocating a file or directory of a tiered file system .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

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About configuring schedules for all tiered file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438

Configuring schedules for all tiered file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Displaying files that will be moved and/or pruned by running a

policy ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440Allowing metadata information on the file system to be written on

the secondary tier ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441

Restricting metadata information to the primary tier only ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Chapter 15 Configuring system information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

About system commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

About setting the clock commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Setting the clock commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

About configuring the locally saved configuration files ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Configuring the locally saved configuration files ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449Using the more command .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

About coordinating cluster nodes to work with NTP servers ... . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Coordinating cluster nodes to work with NTP servers ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Displaying the system statistics ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Using the swap command .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

About the option commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Using the option commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Chapter 16 Upgrading Symantec FileStore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

About upgrading patches or drivers ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465Displaying the current version of FileStore ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467

About installing patches ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

About types of patches ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Installing patches ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Uninstalling patches ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Synchronizing software upgrades on a node .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Uninstalling driver updates ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

Chapter 17 Using Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

About Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476About Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore licensing .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

About Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Displaying Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore configurations ... . . . . . . . . . . . 478

About configuring Symantec AntiVirus forFileStore on all the nodes

in the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

Configuring Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore on the cluster's

nodes ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

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About configuring Auto-Protect on FileStore file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Configuring Auto-Protect on FileStore file systems .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

About excluding file extensions .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Configuring file extensions for the Symantec AntiVirus for FileStoreconfiguration file ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

About Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore LiveUpdate ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

Using Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore with LiveUpdate ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

About using Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore quarantine

commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Using Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore quarantine commands .... . . . . . . 491

Setting the Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore action policy ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493

About using Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore manual scan

commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Using Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore manual scan

commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495About scheduling a Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore scan job ... . . . . . . . . . 496

Scheduling a Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore scan job ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Chapter 18 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503

About troubleshooting commands .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

Setting the CIFS log level ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

Retrieving and sending debugging information .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

Updating FileStore GUI-related operations ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

About the iostat command .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

Generating CPU and device utilization reports ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

Displaying license information for the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

About excluding the PCI ID prior to the FileStore installation .... . . . . . . . . 510

Excluding the PCI IDs from the cluster ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

Testing network connectivity ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

About the services command .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Using the services command .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

Using the support login .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

About network traffic details ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

Exporting and displaying the network traffic details ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

Accessing processor activity ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519Using the traceroute command .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Recovering from a non-graceful shutdown .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

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Introducing SymantecFileStore

This chapter includes the following topics:

About FileStore

About FileStore features

About the core strengths of FileStore

FileStore key benefits and other applications

FileStore on the Web

Using the FileStore product documentation

About FileStoreFileStore was formerly known as Storage Foundation Scalable File Server.

FileStore is a highly-scalable and highly-available clustered Network Attached

Storage (NAS) software appliance. Based on Storage Foundation Cluster File

System technology, FileStore is a complete solution formulti-protocolfileserving.

FileStore provides an open storage gateway model, including a highly- available

and scalable Network File System (NFS), CIFS, and FTP file serving platform andan easy-to-use administrative interface.

The product includes the following key features:

Backup operations using both NDMP and/or the built-in NetBackup client

Active/Active CIFS, including integration with Active Directory operations

Simple administration through a single GUI and/or CLI interface

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Active/Active shared data NFS sharing including shared read/write and

LDAP/NIS support

Simpleadministration of Fibre Channel Host BusAdapters (HBAs), file systems,

disks, snapshots, and Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST)

SNMP, syslog, and email notification

High-speed asynchronous/episode-based replication for content distribution

and data mining

Multi-protocolsharing of filesystemsin a highly-scalable andhighly-available

manner

Support for single-node FileStore clusters

Create a snapshot schedule that stores the values by minutes, hour,

day-of-the-month, month, and day-of-the-week along with the name of thefile system

Seamless upgrade and patch management

Support information

Online man pages

The components of FileStore include a security-hardened, custom-install SLES

10 SP3 operating system, core Storage Foundation services including Cluster File

System, and the FileStore software platform. These components are provided on

a single DVD or DVD ISO image.

About FileStore featuresFileStore is designed to provide a full-suite of NAS features, in addition to

class-leading performance and scalability. A partial list of these features is

discussed in the following sections.

Simple installation

A singlenode in the cluster is booted froma DVD containing the operatingsystem

image, core Storage Foundation, and FileStore modules. While the node boots,the other nodes are defined using IP addresses.

After you install FileStore and the first node is up and running, the rest of the

cluster nodes are automatically installed with all necessary components. The key

services are then automatically started to allow the cluster to begin discovering

storage and creating file shares.

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Active/Active Scalable NFS

With FileStore, all nodes in the cluster can serve the same NFS shares as both

read and write. This creates very high aggregated throughput rates, because you

can use sum of the bandwidth of all nodes. Cache-coherency is maintained

throughout the cluster.

Active/Active CIFS

CIFS is active on all nodes within the FileStore cluster. The specific shares are

read/write on the node they reside on, but can failover to any other node in the

cluster. FileStore supports CIFS home directory shares.

NFS Lock Management (NLM)

The NFS Lock Management (NLM) module allows a customer to use NFS advisory

client locking in parallel with core SFCFS global lock management. The module

consists of failing over the locks among FileStore nodes as well as forwarding all

NFS client lock requests to a single NFS lock master.

The result is that no data corruption occurs if a user or application needs to use

NFS client locking with an FileStore cluster.

Administration

FileStore contains a role-based administration model consisting of the followingkey roles:

Storage

Master

System

These roles are consistent with the operational roles in many data centers.

For each role, the administrator uses a simple menu-driven text interface. This

interface provides a single point of administration for the entire cluster. A user

logsin asone of those roles on one ofthe nodes in the cluster and runs commands

that perform the same tasks on all nodes in the cluster.

You do not need to have any knowledge of the Veritas Storage Foundation

technology to install oradminister an FileStorecluster. If you arecurrentlyfamiliar

with core SFCFS or Storage Foundation in general, you will be familiar with the

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Storage tiering

FileStore's built-in Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) feature can reduce the cost of

storage by moving data to lower cost storage. FileStore storage tiering also

facilitates the moving of data between different drive architectures.

DST lets you do the following:

Create each file in its optimal storage tier, based on pre-defined rules and

policies.

Relocate files between storage tiers automatically as optimal storage changes,

to take advantage of storage economies.

Prune files on secondary tiers automatically as files age and are no longer

needed.

Retain original file access paths to minimize operational disruption, forapplications, backup procedures, and other custom scripts.

Handle millions of files that are typical in large data centers.

Automate these features quickly and accurately.

High-performance data replication

Included as a standard feature in the Enterprise Edition of FileStore and optional

on the Standard Edition, FileStore Replication provides for high-performance

content distribution across multipleclusters.FileStoreReplication is asynchronous

(sometimes calledepisodic) andprovidesforfile-based replicationbetween clusters,

together with the advantage of being able to only transfer blocks within specific

files that have changed since the last update. With FileStore Replication, the

destination file system can be on-line for reads, and updates to that destination

can be as frequent as every fifteen minutes. FileStore Replication is ideal for

content distribution, or for creating hot-standby replicas of a production

environment.

Integrated content scanning using Symantec AntiVirus for FileStore

New to FileStore is the ability for customers to use Symantec AntiVirus forFileStore. Leveraging content-scanning and anti-virus technology similar to that

found in the Symantec Endpoint Protection range of products, this feature allows

forscheduledandreal-time(on-demand)scanning of files andother data contained

within the FileStore cluster. When conducted in real-time, this content-scanning

can be used with multiple file access protocols, including CIFS, NFS, FTP, and

HTTP. Files canbe automatically quarantinedandregularvirus definition updates

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FileStore key benefits and other applicationsFileStore can be used with any application that requires the sharing of files using

the NFS v3, CIFS, or FTP protocol. Use-cases such as home directories or decisionsupport applications that require sequential shared access, Web pages, and

applications are all ideal for FileStore. FileStore is also applicable when you want

general purpose, high-throughput scale-out processing for your data, together

with enterprise-class highly available cluster functionality.

High performance scaling and seamless growth

FileStore lets you scale storage and processing independently and seamlessly,

online. Because an application may need to scale either storage or processing, or

both, this capability gives you a lot of flexibility.

FileStore automates the installation of new nodes into the running cluster,

configures those nodes, and adds the nodes' capacity into the processing tier.

FileStore can scale from 1 to 16 nodes with near linear performance scaling. You

can add processing one node at a time, rather than buying a large, expensive

independent appliance.

A storage administrator can configure a new array or even add new LUNs from

an existing array into the FileStore cluster. FileStore can then scan the storage,

automatically see the new LUNs and place them under FileStore control for use

in the cluster. All of this is performed online.

At the storage end, resizing of existing file systems can be performed online withno interruption of service. A simple command is used to both add space to an

existing file system and to also reduce (dynamically shrink) the amount of free

space in a specified file system.

The product provides nearly linear scaling in terms of NFS operations per second

and total I/O throughput.

Figure 1-1 depicts this scaling capability.

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Figure 1-1 Example of near-linear performance scaling with FileStore

When using 16-node clusters, extremely high throughput performance numbers

can be obtained. This is due to the benefits of near linear FileStore clusterscalability.

High availability

FileStore has an always on" file service that provides zero interruption of file

services for company critical data.

The loss of single or even multiple nodes does not interrupt I/O operations on the

client tier. This is in contrast to the traditional active/passive failover paradigm.

Further, with FileStore's modular N-to-N approach to clustered NAS, any node

can act as a failover for any other node.The FileStore architecture provides transparent failover for other key services

such as NFS lock state, CIFS and FTP daemons, reporting, logging, and

backup/restore operations. The console service that provides access to the

centralized menu-driven interface is automatically failed over to another node.

The installation service is also highly available and can seamlessly recover from

the initially installed node failing during the installation of the remaining nodes

in the cluster.

The use of Veritas Cluster Server technology and software within FileStore is key

to the ability of FileStore to provide best-of-breed high availability, in addition to

class-leading scale-out performance.

Consolidating and reducing costs of storage

The value of consolidating several independent islands of NAS appliances into

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A typical enterprise uses 30-40% of its storage. This low storage utilization rate

results in excessive spending on new storage when there is more than adequate

free space in the data center.

With FileStore, you can group storage assets into fewer, larger shared pools. Thisincreases the use of backend LUNs and overall storage.

FileStore also has built-in, pre-configured heterogeneous storage tiering. This

lets you use different types of storage in a primary and secondary tier

configuration. Using simple policies, data can be transparently moved from the

primary storage tier to the secondary tier. This is ideal when mixing drive types

and architectures such as high-speed SAS drives with cheaper storage, such as

SATA-based drives. Furthermore, data can be stored initially on the secondary

tier and then promoted to the primary tier dynamically based on a pattern of I/O.

This creates an optimal scenario when you use Solid State Disks (SSDs) because

there will often be a significant change between the amount of SSD storageavailable, and amount of other storage availability, such as SATA drives. Data

and files that are promoted to the primary tier are transferred back to the

secondary tier in accordance with the configured access time policy.

All of this results in substantially increased efficiency, and it can save you money

because you make better use of the storage you already have.

Enabling scale-out compute clusters and heterogeneous sharing ofdata

The trend toward scale-out, or grid computing continues to gain pace. There aresignificant performance and cost advantages of moving applications away from

large UNIXSymmetrical Multi-Processing(SMP) or mainframe environmentsand

towards a farmof commodity computer servers running a distributed application.

One of the key inhibitors to scale-out computing is the requirement to provide a

shared storage infrastructure for the compute nodes, and enable you to share

heterogeneously as well as scaleup as performancerequires.FileStore solves both

of these issues by providing a highly scalable and shared storage platform at the

storage tier and by facilitating heterogeneous sharing on the compute tier.

FileStore can provide the performance and availability you need for a large-scale

NFScompute andstorage tier. It providesenoughthroughput andseamlessfailover

for this type of architecture whether a few dozen compute nodes, or scaling to

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FileStore on the WebFor comprehensive, up-to-date information about FileStore, visit the Symantec

Web site:http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=55079

Using the FileStore product documentationFileStore product documentation is available in PDF format on the FileStore

installation DVD in the /docs directory:

Symantec FileStore Web GUI Administrators Guide(sfs_admin_gui.pdf)

Symantec FileStore Command-Line Administrators Guide(sfs_admin.pdf)

Symantec FileStore Installation Guide(sfs_install.pdf)

Symantec FileStore Replication Guide(sfs_replication.pdf)

Symantec FileStore Release Notes (sfs_relnotes.pdf)

Find additional information at this location:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=55079

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Creating users based onroles

This chapter includes the following topics:

About user roles and privileges

About the naming requirements for adding new users

About using the FileStore command-line interface

Logging in to the FileStore CLI

About accessing the online man pages

About creating Master, System Administrator, and Storage Administrator

users

Creating Master, System Administrator, and Storage Administrator users

About the support user

Configuring the support user account

Displaying the command history

About user roles and privilegesYour privileges within Symantec FileStore (FileStore) are based on what user role

(Master, System Administrator,or Storage Administrator)youhave been assigned.

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Table 2-1 User roles within FileStore

DescriptionUser role

Masters are responsible for adding or deletingusers, displaying users,and managing passwords. Only the Masters can add or delete other

administrators.

Master

System Administrators are responsible for configuring and

maintaining the file system, NFS sharing, networking, clustering,

setting the current date/time, and creating reports.

System

Administrator

Storage Administrators are responsible for provisioning storage and

exporting and reviewing reports.

Storage

Administrator

The Support account is reserved for Technical Support use only, and it cannot be

created by administrators.

See Using the support login on page 517.

About the naming requirements for adding new usersThe following table provides the naming requirements for adding new FileStore

users.

Table 2-2 Naming requirements for adding new users

DescriptionGuideline

Letter or an underscore (_)

Must begin with an alphabetic character and the rest of the string

should be from the following POSIX portable character set:

([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-.]*[A-Za-z0-9_-.$]).

Starts with

Can be up to 31 characters. If user names are greater than 31

characters, you will receive the error, "Invalid user name."

Length

FileStore CLI commands are case-insensitive (for example, the user

commandis thesameas theUSERcommand). However, user-providedvariables are case-sensitive (for example, the username Master1 is

not the same as the username MASTER1).

Case

Hyphens (-) and underscores (_) are allowed.Can contain

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Table 2-2 Naming requirements for adding new users (continued)

DescriptionGuideline

Valid user names include:

Name:

a.b

a_b

______-

Valid syntax

See Creating Master, System Administrator, and Storage Administrator users

on page 42.

About using the FileStore command-line interfaceYou can enter FileStore commands on the system console or from any host that

can access FileStore through a session using Secure Socket Shell (SSH) .

FileStore provides the following features to help you when you enter commands

on the command line:

Command-line help by typing a command and then a question mark (?)

Command-line manual (man) pages by typing man and the nameofthe command

you are trying to find

Table 2-3 Conventions used in the FileStore online command-line man pages

DescriptionSymbol

Indicates you must choose one of elements on either side of the pipe.| (pipe)

Indicates that the element inside the brackets is optional.[ ] (brackets)

Indicates that the element inside the braces is part of a group.{ } (braces)

Indicates a variable for which you need to supply a value. Variables

are indicated in italics in the man pages.

< >

Logging in to the FileStore CLIWhen you first log in to the FileStore CLI, use the default username/password of

master/master. After you have logged in successfully, change your password.

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Note: Changing the default password is important for system security. If you do

not change the default password, a warning message appears the next time you

log in.

See Creating Master, System Administrator, and Storage Administrator users

on page 42.

By default, the initial password for any user is the same as the username. For

example, if you logged in as user1, your default password would also be user1.

To use any of the CLI commands, first log in by using the user role you have been

assigned.Then enter thecorrect mode. These twostepsmust be performedbefore

you can use any of the commands.

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