Part number T3648-96011 First edition October
 File System Extender Software installation guide for Linux
 Contents
 General problems
Uninstalling FSE software
Troubleshooting
Upgrading from previous FSE releases
 Integrating existing file systems in the FSE implementation
FSE system maintenance releases and hot fixes
Installation problems
Integrating existing file systems
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 Intended audience
Document conventions and symbols
About this guide
Related documentation
 HP web sites
Subscription service
HP technical support
Documentation feedback
 Consolidated implementation
Introduction and preparation basics
FSE implementation options
This chapter includes the following topics
 Distributed implementation
Consolidated FSE implementation
 Mixed implementation
 Licensing
Preparing file systems for FSE
 Storage space for FSE debug
Reasons for organizing file systems
Organizing the file system layout
 Estimating the size of file systems
 Formula for the expected File System Catalog size
Formula for the expected size of Fast Recovery Information
Formula for the expected HSM file system size
 Introduction and preparation basics
 Space requirements of FSE disk buffer
 Storage space for FSE debug files
Var/log/FSEDEBUG Tmp/FSEDEBUG
 Installation overview
Installing the FSE Management Console on
 Action Comments & where to find details
Etc/fstab
 Preparing the operating system
Required operating system updates
Preparing the operating system environment
Suse Linux Enterprise Server
 Package Package name in the rpm -qa output Rhel
Package file name Rhel
 # rpm --install FirebirdSS-1.0.3.972-0.64IO.i386.rpm
Installing Firebird SuperServer on an FSE server
Package PackageName is not installed
Verifying third-party packages
 Disabling Acpi
Disabling Acpi with Grub boot loader
Disabling Acpi with Lilo boot loader
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 Preparing the operating system environment
 Preparing file systems
Preparing Logical Volume Manager LVM volumes
Preparing file systems for FSE
 # pvcreate /dev/cciss/c0dp1 # pvcreate /dev/cciss/c0dp2
Create and initialize LVM logical volume groups
Create and initialize LVM logical volumes
 # lvcreate -L 400G -n fsefs01 vgfsefs
Create LVM logical volumes for HSM file systems
# lvcreate -L 20G -n fsediskbufNumber vgfse
 # mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -N 1000000 /dev/vgfsefs/examplefs
Creating file systems on top of LVM logical volumes
Creating file systems for FSE databases and system files
 Creating HSM file systems
Command generates an output similar to the following
Mounting file systems for FSE databases and system files
 # mount /dev/mapper/vgfse-fsevar
Dev/mapper/vgfse-fsevar Var/opt/fse Ext3 defaults
Create the four remaining directories
 # mount /dev/mapper/vgfse-fsediskbufNumber
# mkdir /var/opt/fse/diskbuf/NewFileSystemMountPoint
Dev/mapper/vgfse-fsediskbufNumber\
 Creating a symbolic link for debug files directory
 Installing an FSE release
Installing FSE software
Installation overview
Prerequisites
 Consolidated
Installation procedure
Monitoring the installation
Packages
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 Determining the build number
Verifying and repairing the installed FSE software
Repairing the FSE software installation
Server = fseserver.company.net
 Modifying the Path environment variable
Preparing the FSE backup configuration file
Configuring the FSE interprocess communication
Modifying the Ldlibrarypath environment variable
 Services.cfg Etc/opt/fse OmniORB.cfg
No external FSE clients or ordinary LAN connection
 OmniORB.cfg file, configure the parameters in the section
Hostname = fseserver.fsenet Server = fseserver.fsenet
 Hostname = fseclient.fsenet Server = fseserver.fsenet
Configuring communication on external FSE clients
Server = fse-server1.company.com
 Starting the FSE implementation
# fse --start
 Bottom part of the output should match the following
Starting the FSE server
Starting FSE clients
Consolidated FSE system
 FS Event Manager Mounting
Restarting FSE processes
Restarting local FSE processes
File Systems
 External FSE client
Checking the status of a running FSE implementation
Checking Firebird SuperServer
If the reported line is
 Checking Firebird SuperServer on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Checking the omniNames daemon
Checking FSE Processes
 Configuring and starting HSM Health Monitor
Configuring and starting Log Analyzer
 Installing the FSE Management Console client
Installing the FSE Management Console
Installing the FSE Management Console server
Automating the mounting of HSM file systems
 Add the following line to the /etc/fstab file
Configuring the post-start and pre-stop helper scripts
Post-start script
Dev/mapper/vgfsefs-fsefs01 Fse/fsefs01 Hsmfs noauto 0
 Pre-stop script
Example
 Installing FSE software
 Upgrade overview
Upgrading from previous FSE releases
 Shutting down the FSE implementation
# /etc/init.d/guisrv stop
 # fsecheck --fsc-hsmfs PartitionName
Var/opt/fse/log/checkhsmfsfscPartitionName.log
# cd /var/opt/fse/log # rm -f checkhsmfsfsc
# hhm stop
 Command displays a report similar to the following
Upgrading the operating system on Linux hosts
 Above example, the value of DeviceFilePathname is
Installing FSE release 3.4 software on the Linux FSE server
Upgrading the Linux FSE server
 Starting OmniORB Naming Service FSE Service
Starting up the FSE server
 Upgrading Linux FSE clients
For the above example, the command output is
Upgrading the Windows FSE server
 Starting up a Linux FSE client
Installing FSE release 3.4 software on a Linux FSE client
Upgrading Windows FSE clients
Starting the HSM Health Monitor daemon on Linux systems
 Upgrading the FSE Management Console
Starting the HSM Health Monitor service on Windows systems
Starting the Log Analyzer service on Windows systems
Starting the Log Analyzer daemons on Linux systems
 Fsepartition --list
Verifying availability of the configured FSE partitions
# rpm -U fse-gui-client-3.4.0-Build.i386.rpm
 Uninstalling the FSE Management Console
Uninstalling FSE software
Uninstalling FSE software
Uninstalling basic FSE software
 # rpm -e `rpm -qa grep fse- grep -v fse-gui`
# omninames --stop Stopping omniORB Naming Service
Resource Manager Stopping
Var/opt/fse/rmdb
 Entity Location directory Location FSE host type
Opt/fse
 Uninstalling FSE software
 Installation problems
Troubleshooting
General problems
General problems, Installation problems,
 Systems, see the latest support matrices
Adapter
Line helps you determine if the adapter is connected to LAN
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 Troubleshooting
 # tune2fs -j /dev/fsesda/fs1
Integrating existing file systems in the FSE implementation
Integrating existing file systems
HSMFileSystemRoot # find * -type f xargs -n1 head -n0
 Integrating existing file systems in the FSE implementation
 FSE releases
FSE system maintenance releases and hot fixes
FSE system maintenance releases
FSE hot fixes
 Determining the installed system maintenance release
FSE system maintenance releases and FSE hot fixes
Installing a system maintenance release
Uninstalling a system maintenance release
 Command will display an output similar to the following
Determining the installed hot fix
Uninstalling a hot fix
# fsesystem --version
 FSE system maintenance releases and hot fixes
 Glossary
Media pool FSE media pool
 External client FSE external client
FSE configuration file template
Configuration file
File System Catalog FSC
 Disk buffer
Needs cleaning or servicing
Own deletion policy
See media duplication
 Also Data Location Catalog DLC and Name Space Catalog NSC
See recovery FSE recovery
See recovery FSE recovery, recovery job
 Mode LAM
 FSE job
It, you must use forced initialization
Job
 Retention time
See Medium Auxiliary Memory MAM
Medium
 Online medium
Offline medium
Library
Set to unusable
 InstallPath%\var\rmdb directory on Windows platform
An FSE users request with the fserecover command
Recovery job
Recall, recall job
 FSE implementation
See media pool FSE media pool
 See LTO Ultrium
Is set by enabling the drive with the fsedrive command
Ultrium
Unusable medium
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