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Clustered Data ONTAP® 8.2

System Administration Guide for Cluster Administrators

• Differences between cluster and SVM administrators
• Data ONTAP management interface basics
• Accessing the cluster by using the CLI
  • Accessing the cluster by using the serial port
  • Accessing the cluster by using SSH
  • Enabling Telnet or RSH access to the cluster
  • Accessing the cluster by using Telnet
  • Accessing the cluster by using RSH
• Using the Data ONTAP command-line interface
  • Understanding the different shells for CLI commands
    • Displaying available nodeshell commands
    • Uses of the systemshell and the diagnostic account
  • Methods of navigating CLI command directories
  • Rules for specifying values in the CLI
  • Methods of viewing command history and reissuing commands
  • Keyboard shortcuts for editing CLI commands
  • Use of administrative privilege levels
  • Setting the privilege level in the CLI
  • Setting display preferences in the CLI
  • Methods of using query operators
  • Methods of using extended queries
  • Methods of customizing show command output by using fields
  • Methods of accessing Data ONTAP man pages
• Managing CLI sessions
  • Managing records of CLI sessions
    • Recording a CLI session
    • Commands for managing records of CLI sessions
  • Managing the automatic timeout period of CLI sessions
    • Commands for managing the automatic timeout period of CLI sessions
• Understanding OnCommand System Manager
• Cluster management basics
• What a cluster is
• Considerations for single node clusters
• What the cluster management server is
• Understanding quorum and epsilon
• What a cluster replication ring is
• Displaying the nodes in a cluster
• Displaying cluster attributes
• Modifying cluster attributes
• Reassigning epsilon to another node in the cluster
• Displaying the status of cluster replication rings
• Managing nodes
• Displaying node attributes
• Modifying node attributes
• Renaming a node
• Adding nodes to the cluster
• Removing nodes from the cluster
• Accessing a node's log, core dump, and MIB files by using a web browser
• Rules governing node root volumes and root aggregates
  • Freeing up space on a node’s root volume
• Starting or stopping a node
  • Rebooting a node at the system prompt
  • Booting Data ONTAP at the boot environment prompt
  • Rebooting a node remotely
  • Shutting down a node
• Managing a node by using the boot menu
• Recovering from a corrupted image of a node's boot device
• Managing a node remotely
  • Managing a node remotely by using the Service Processor
    • Configuring the SP network
    • Accounts that can access the SP
    • Accessing the SP from an administration host
    • Accessing the SP from the serial console
    • Accessing the serial console from the SP
    • Relations among the SP CLI, SP console, and serial console sessions
    • Using online help at the SP CLI
    • Commands for managing a node at the SP admin privilege level
    • Commands for managing a node at the SP advanced privilege level
    • How to determine the status of a threshold-based SP sensor
    • Understanding the status of a discrete SP sensor
    • Troubleshooting a node by using the SP
    • Managing the SP with Data ONTAP
      • Methods of managing SP firmware updates
      • Restricting SP access to only the specified administration hosts
      • Configuring automatic logout of idle SSH connections to the SP
      • Data ONTAP commands for managing the SP
      • Disabling SNMP traps for only the SP
  • Managing a node remotely by using the Remote LAN Module
    • What the RLM does
    • Configuring the RLM network
    • Accounts that can access the RLM
    • Logging in to the RLM from an administration host
    • Accessing the serial console from the RLM
    • Relations among the RLM CLI, RLM console, and serial console sessions
    • Using online help at the RLM CLI
    • Commands for managing a node at the RLM admin privilege level
    • Commands for managing a node at the RLM advanced privilege level
    • Managing the RLM with Data ONTAP
      • Data ONTAP commands for managing the RLM
      • Restricting RLM access to only the specified administration hosts
      • Configuring automatic logout of idle SSH connections to the RLM
      • RLM and SNMP traps
      • Disabling SNMP traps for only the RLM
    • Troubleshooting a node by using the RLM
    • Troubleshooting RLM connection problems
• Managing SVMs
• What SVMs are
  • About SVMs root volumes
  • Types of SVMs
  • Why you use SVMs
  • Number of SVMs in a cluster
• CreatingSVMs
  • List of language options
  • Language configurations
  • Completing the SVM setup worksheet
  • Creating SVMs by using the CLI wizard
    • Creating fully configured SVMs
    • Setting up a network interface
    • Provisioning storage by creating volumes
    • Configuring services
    • Configuring protocols
  • Creating SVMs with FlexVol volumes
  • Creating SVMs with Infinite Volume
• Considerations for modifying SVMs
• Modifying SVMs
• Delegating administration to SVM administrators
• Displaying information about SVMs
• Renaming SVMs
• Deleting SVMs
• Administering SVMs from the SVM context
• Starting SVMs
• Stopping SVMs
• Restoring the root volume ofan SVM
  • Promoting a load-sharing mirror copy
  • Promoting a data-protection mirror copy
  • Promoting a new FlexVol volume
• Controlling and monitoring I/O performance to SVMs by using Storage QoS
• Managing access to the cluster
• Managing user accounts
  • Access methods for user accounts
  • Authentication methods for user accounts
    • Authentication behavior when methods include both public key and password
  • Enabling Active Directory domain users to access the cluster
  • Commands for managing user accounts
• Managing access-control roles
  • Predefined roles for cluster administrators
  • Predefined roles for SVM administrators
  • Considerations for customizing an access-control role
  • Customizing an access-control role to restrict user access to specific commands
  • Managing rule settings for user names and passwords in an access-control role
  • Considerations for password rule settings
  • Commands for managing access-control roles
• Managing firewall service and policies
  • Creating a firewall policy and assigning it to a LIF
  • Commands for managing firewall service and policies
• Managing SSH security configurations
  • Commands for managing SSH security configurations
• Managing public keys
  • Commands for managing public keys
• Managing digital certificates for server or client authentication
  • Generating and installing a CA-signed digital certificate for server authentication
  • Installing a server intermediate certificate
  • Providing mutual authentication
  • Installing the root certificate of an SSL server
  • Commands for managing digital certificates
• Managing access to web services
  • Managing the web protocol engine
    • Commands for managing the web protocol engine
  • Managing web services
    • Commands for managing web services
    • Commands for managing mount points on the nodes
  • Managing SSL
    • Commands for managing SSL
  • Configuring access to web services
    • Troubleshooting web service access problems
• Managing audit settings
  • Commands for managing audit settings
• Managing the cluster time
• Commands for managing the cluster time
• Managing licenses
• License types and licensed method
• Commands for managing licenses
• Managing jobs and schedules
• Job categories
• Commands for managing jobs
• Commands for managing job schedules
• Backing up and restoring cluster configurations
• What configuration backup files are
• Managing configuration backups
  • How the node and cluster configurations are backed up automatically
  • Commands for managing configuration backup schedules
  • Commands for managing configuration backup files
• Recovering a node configuration
  • Finding a configuration backup file to use for recovering a node
  • Restoring the node configuration using a configuration backup file
• Recovering a cluster configuration
  • Finding a configuration to use for recovering a cluster
  • Restoring a cluster configuration from an existing configuration
• Synchronizing a node with the cluster
• Managing core dumps
• Methods of segmenting core dump files
• Commands for managing core dumps
• Commands for managing core segmenting
• Monitoring the storage system
• Managing event messages
  • Setting up the Event Management System
  • Commands for managing events
• Managing AutoSupport
  • When and where AutoSupport messages are sent
  • How AutoSupport creates and sends event-triggered messages
  • How AutoSupport On Demand obtains delivery instructions from technical support
  • Types of AutoSupport messages and their content
  • Structure of AutoSupport messages sent by email
  • AutoSupport severity types
  • Requirements for using AutoSupport
  • Setting up AutoSupport
  • Getting AutoSupport message descriptions
  • Commands for managing AutoSupport
  • Information included in the AutoSupport manifest
  • What My AutoSupport is
  • Troubleshooting AutoSupport
    • Troubleshooting AutoSupport when messages are not received
    • Troubleshooting AutoSupport over HTTP or HTTPS
    • Troubleshooting AutoSupport delivery over SMTP
    • Troubleshooting EMS events about rejected or failed SMTP attempts
• Monitoring the health of your system
  • How health monitoring works
    • Ways to respond to system health alerts
    • System health alert customization
    • How health alerts trigger AutoSupport messages and events
  • What health monitors are available
  • Receiving system health alerts automatically
  • Responding to degraded system health
    • Example of responding to degraded system health
  • Configuring discovery of cluster and management network switches
  • Verifying the monitoring of cluster and management network switches
  • Commands for monitoring the health of your system
• Using dashboards to display critical system information
  • Getting notified of dashboard alarms
  • Commands for managing dashboards
• Monitoring cluster performance
  • What objects, instances, and counters are
  • Decisions to make before you view performance data
  • Viewing performance data for a time period
  • Viewing continuously updated performance data
  • Commands for monitoring cluster performance
• Displaying environmental information
• Managing system performance
• Managing workload performance by using Storage QoS
  • How Storage QoS works
    • How the maximum throughput limit works
    • How throttling a workload can affect non-throttled workload requests from the same client
    • Rules for assigning storage objects to policy groups
    • How to monitor workload performance when using Storage QoS
    • Supported number of Storage QoS policy groups and workloads
  • Controlling and monitoring workload performance
  • Example: Isolating a workload
  • Example: Proactively setting a limit on non-critical workloads
  • Example: Proactively setting a limit on workloads in a shared storage infrastructure
  • Commands for controlling and monitoring workloads
• Increasing WAFL cache memory
  • How Flash Pool aggregates and Flash Cache compare
  • Enabling and disabling WAFL external cache
  • Caching normal user data blocks
  • Caching low-priority user data blocks
  • Caching only system metadata
  • Displaying the WAFL external cache configuration
  • Displaying usage and access information for WAFL external cache
  • Preserving the cache in the Flash Cache family of modules
    • How cache rewarming works
      • Events that initiate cache rewarming
      • Events that do not initiate cache rewarming
      • Events that abort cache rewarming
    • Enabling and disabling cache rewarming
• Improving read performance
  • What read reallocation is
  • Commands for managing read reallocation
• Improving write performance
  • How free space reallocation optimizes free space
  • When to enable free space reallocation
  • When to use free space reallocation with other reallocation features
  • Types of aggregates that free space reallocation can and cannot optimize
  • Commands for managing free space reallocation
• Managing peer relationships for data backup and recovery
• Managing cluster peer relationships
  • What a cluster peer is
  • Connecting one cluster to another cluster in a peer relationship
    • Cluster peer network topologies
    • What cluster peer intercluster networking is
    • Cluster peer intercluster networking requirements
    • Considerations when sharing data ports
    • Considerations when using dedicated ports
    • Configuring intercluster LIFs to share data ports
    • Configuring intercluster LIFs to use dedicated intercluster ports
    • Creating the cluster peer relationship
  • Displaying a cluster peer relationship
  • Modifying a cluster peer relationship
  • Deleting a cluster peering relationship
  • Managing jobs on another cluster
    • Viewing jobs on another cluster
    • Monitoring progress of a job on another cluster
    • Pausing jobs on another cluster
    • Resuming jobs on another cluster
    • Stopping a job on another cluster
    • Deleting a job on another cluster
• Managing SVM peer relationships
  • What an SVM peer relationship is
  • States of SVM peer relationships
  • Creating an SVM peer relationship
    • Creating an intercluster SVM peer relationship
    • Creating an intracluster SVM peer relationship
  • Accepting an SVM peer relationship
  • Rejecting an SVM peer relationship
  • Modifying an SVM peer relationship
  • Deleting an SVM peer relationship
  • Suspending an SVM peer relationship
  • Resuming an SVM peer relationship
  • Displaying information about SVM peer relationships
• Glossary
• Copyright information
• Trademark information
• How to send your comments

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