Introducing Dell Filers 1-9
You maintain network access by following general filer network administration proce-
dures and procedures specific to your protocol. These procedures are described in
later chapters in this guide.
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You monitor hardware by gathering statistics about your hardware and analyzing
them for performance.
You maintain the hardware as described in the appropriate hardware guides.
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Table 1-7 lists essential tasks that you should consider performing periodically, sug-
gests how often to perform a task, and lists the command or file to use for the task.

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Daily Review filer performance and CPU
utilization.
sysstat FRPPDQG
Review filer disk usage on a per-
volume and per-snapshot level.
df FRPPDQG
Check for drive failures, reboots,
and other logged events
/etc/messages file
Review CIFS utilization, if licensed
for CIFS.
cifs statFRPPDQG
Review HTTP utilization, if licensed
for HTTP.
httpstatFRPPDQG
Review NFS utilization, if licensed
for NFS.
nfsstatFRPPDQG