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System Administrator’s Guide to Installing DataMgr
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Installation
Post Installation Tasks
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Preface
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Books for System Topic Administrators to Read
Purpose of This Book Who Should Read This
How This Book is Organized
Are listed below
Conventions
Conventions used throughout the DataMgr technical books
Convention Example
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Books
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Related
Publications
Publications described in the table below are created
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Prerequisites
Roadmap
Task
Feature Licenses
Capacity- based License
Operating System Command
All strung together
Contact Adic to receive an authorization string
Date, file migration and reload is again enabled through
Change the authorization string if any of the following
Initializes the license file. Therefore, when you
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BFS Issues License to Clients
Registration File Monitors License
How to Refresh Registration File
File System Size & Name
Large Files Shared Libraries
AIX
HP-UX
Solaris
DataMgr
Disk Space
Table below shows the amount of disk space required by
Etc/dm/raima/bfs
Create Installation Directory
Determine Location for Components
Summary
Elements
Component Default Description Directory
Create Directories
Default Path Symbolic Link
Component Host Name
Size Databases
Size BFS Database
Factor = Number of replicated copies or number of tiers
Size Managed File System Database
Man Pages
Edit Paths
Utilities
To run the Client xdmfs GUI, add
To run the Administrative xdmadm GUI, add
GUIs
On Solaris, do the following
Edit Temporary Storage Space
System Mount Table
Operating System Mount Table Man
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Installation
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Extract Files From Local L
Where
Extract Files From Remote R
Option Description
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Install DataMgr
BFS SSD
Installation script prompts you to enter the letter
Created earlier and run the DataMgr installation
For example, the commands below go to the hpux
Install
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Solaris only
Following message displays and can be ignored
Irix only
Proceed to the next chapter
DataMgr Components Daemons
Startup File
Operating System Startup File
Startup
Shutdown
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Setup Tasks
Setup Tasks
Establish Access for Dmfs Clients
Schedule cron Jobs
Dmfs cron job
BFS cron job
Back Up Databases
Status of the bfsdbbackup. Failed backups are
If this nightly backup fails, DataMgr sends a mail
Message to root notifying the system administrator
You can recover a previous backup version
# cd /archive/BFSDBBackup # setvolgrp /archive/BFSDBBackup
Save SSD Logs
Or, directly into an Amass file system
Default crontab entries for running
Maintenance utilities are shown below
Crontab on all Dmfs clients
Crontab on all DataMgr components
Crontab on the BFS
Modify the crontab entries Save and exit this file
Logging
Logging Hierarchy
Messages
Problem solving. This file is located
Format
Priority Levels
Modify Logging Characteristics
An example of the emasslogparms file follows
Environment variables listed in the table below can
Modifiable
Variables
Be modified if required
Environment Variable Description
Elsyslogmask
# ls /etc/dm/emasslogs/history
Options for the reloaddmlog script are
Script to activate the new settings.
Our example, we are turning on logging level nine
Described below
Tive GUI
Administra
Start
Start Client GUI
Change Colors and Fonts
Do not Change any other text in this file
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Post Installation Tasks
Post Installation Tasks
Deinstall DataMgr
Run the following script
Reinstall DataMgr
# /etc/dm/scripts/installdm
Remove Load Directory
Load directory
Post Installation
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