Introduction If you work with EMC Isilon clusters you will likely have a requirement at some point to check network connectivity between clusters to ensure reachability for all nodes. Now you can do it manually if you have small clusters
Introduction Looking for a version 8 command. It may be here. I’ll add more over time. Clearing Events Commands required on Isilon cluster v8 Search failing IP’s across the cluster reported by zabbix View/Remove from Grid dynamic pool example: The
Introduction If you ever get a problem with networking between 2 distant Isilon clusters then you might get a problem with SyncIQ reports filling up with nonsense. So if you have a lot of jobs you might end up with
Introduction So if you’ve read this and thought, it doesn’t work on FreeBSD then you are right. It doesn’t. Try this instead: You can use this portable find command with something like this. find . -user old-user -exec chown new-user:new-group
Introduction If you’ve been passed the unenviable task of bulk modification of multiple quotas on Isilon then you will know to do so manually is a tedious and incredibly time consuming process and most likely why you are reading this
Introduction Restoring data from NL Isilon is quite a simple affair with standard UNIX commands. This how to may just save some time on the trial and error aspect of a restore. If a request comes in to retrieve data
Introduction Looking for a command. It might just be in here somewhere. I’ll update as I find useful ones. Commands Performance Stats isi statistics drive –nodes=all –orderby=busy –type=sas,sata –top isi statistics drive –nodes=all –orderby=busy –type=sas,sata | head -n 30 Power
Introduction When you get verbose output from a system but you want to only see a number of specific lines: Required Command The following is an example from an Isilon node: isi nfs exports list –verbose | egrep “ID|UID|Paths” >
Introduction If you have Linux clients accessing NFS shares on an Isilon Scale out NAS then they may not be able to see the usage of a directory using the “df” command. Fix Now the fix only works on directories
Introduction If you’ve ever made the mistake of making a directory on an Isilon cluster with the wrong path but the directory contains huge amounts of data. What you need is the correct ISI command. Command This is the one