Quantum 3.5 manual Configuring StorNext Windows Configuration Utilities

Version Information

Check (Read-Only) a File System

File System Startup List

Chapter 4 Configuring StorNext

Windows Configuration Utilities

To stop StorNext File System services, on the Windows Start menu, click All Programs > StorNext File System > Stop System Services.

To start the StorNext services again, reboot the system or use the Start File System Services utility. For more information, see Start File System Services.

The Version Information utility displays information about the currently installed version of the StorNext server and/or client software, such as the version number, build number, and platform.

To run the Version Information utility, on the Windows Start menu, click All Programs > StorNext File System > Version Information. A dialog box displays version information for the StorNext server and/or client software installed on your system.

The Check (Read-Only) a File System utility allows you to check a StorNext file system for metadata corruption (due to a system crash, bad disk, or other failure). Run the utility on an MDC that contains the file system you want to check.

To check a file system, on the Windows Start menu, click All Programs > StorNext File System > Check (Read-Only) a File System. Type the number that corresponds to the file system you want to check, and then press <Enter>.

Because the file system check is run in read-only mode, any problems that exist are not repaired. If the utility identifies errors or corruption in metadata, you must repair the file system (see Repair a File System on page 90).

The File System Startup List utility lets you modify the File System Manager (FSM) services list and set file system priority.

The File System Manager is a process that manages the name space, allocations, and metadata coherency for a file system. Each file system uses its own FSM process. When there are multiple file systems (and therefore multiple FSM processes), the FSM services list controls which FSM processes are run when the server starts up, and also sets the priority for each file system (for failover configurations).

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