Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide
- Contents
- Getting started
- New user setup
- Configure and provision a new storage system
- Using the PowerVault Manager interface
- System concepts
- About virtual and linear storage
- About disk groups
- About RAID levels
- About ADAPT
- About SSDs
- About SSD read cache
- About spares
- About pools
- About volumes and volume groups
- About volume cache options
- About thin provisioning
- About automated tiered storage
- About initiators, hosts, and host groups
- About volume mapping
- About operating with a single controller
- About snapshots
- About copying volumes
- About reconstruction
- About quick rebuild
- About performance statistics
- About firmware updates
- About managed logs
- About SupportAssist
- About CloudIQ
- About configuring DNS settings
- About replicating virtual volumes
- About the Full Disk Encryption feature
- About data protection with a single controller
- Working in the Home topic
- Guided setup
- Provisioning disk groups and pools
- Attaching hosts and volumes in the Host Setup wizard
- Overall system status
- Configuring system settings
- Managing scheduled tasks
- Working in the System topic
- Viewing system components
- Systems Settings panel
- Resetting host ports
- Rescanning disk channels
- Clearing disk metadata
- Updating firmware
- Changing FDE settings
- Configuring advanced settings
- Changing disk settings
- Changing system cache settings
- Configuring partner firmware update
- Configuring system utilities
- Using maintenance mode
- Restarting or shutting down controllers
- Working in the Hosts topic
- Working in the Pools topic
- Working in the Volumes topic
- Viewing volumes
- Creating a virtual volume
- Creating a linear volume
- Modifying a volume
- Copying a volume or snapshot
- Abort a volume copy
- Adding volumes to a volume group
- Removing volumes from a volume group
- Renaming a volume group
- Remove volume groups
- Rolling back a virtual volume
- Deleting volumes and snapshots
- Creating snapshots
- Resetting a snapshot
- Creating a replication set from the Volumes topic
- Initiating or scheduling a replication from the Volumes topic
- Manage replication schedules from the Volumes topic
- Working in the Mappings topic
- Working in the Replications topic
- About replicating virtual volumes in the Replications topic
- Replication prerequisites
- Replication process
- Creating a virtual pool for replication
- Setting up snapshot space management in the context of replication
- Replication and empty allocated pages
- Disaster recovery
- Accessing the data while keeping the replication set intact
- Accessing the data from the backup system as if it were the primary system
- Disaster recovery procedures
- Viewing replications
- Querying a peer connection
- Creating a peer connection
- Modifying a peer connection
- Deleting a peer connection
- Creating a replication set from the Replications topic
- Modifying a replication set
- Deleting a replication set
- Initiating or scheduling a replication from the Replications topic
- Stopping a replication
- Suspending a replication
- Resuming a replication
- Manage replication schedules from the Replications topic
- About replicating virtual volumes in the Replications topic
- Working in the Performance topic
- Working in the banner and footer
- Banner and footer overview
- Viewing system information
- Viewing certificate information
- Viewing connection information
- Viewing system date and time information
- Viewing user information
- Viewing health information
- Viewing event information
- Viewing capacity information
- Viewing host information
- Viewing tier information
- Viewing recent system activity
- Other management interfaces
- SNMP reference
- Using FTP and SFTP
- Using SMI-S
- Using SLP
- Administering a log-collection system
- Best practices
- System configuration limits
- Glossary of terms
2. Open a Command Prompt (Windows) or a terminal window (UNIX) and go to the destination directory for the log file.
3. Type:
sftp -P port controller-network-address or
ftp controller-network-address
sftp -P 1022 10.235.216.152 or
ftp 10.1.0.9
4. Log in as a user that has permission to use the FTP/SFTP interface.
5. Type:
get logs filename.zip
where filename is the file that contains the logs. Dell EMC recommends using a filename that identifies the system,
controller, and date.
get logs Storage2_A_20120126.zip
In FTP, wait for the message Operation Complete to appear. No messages are displayed in SFTP; instead, the get
command returns once the logs collection is finished.
6. Quit the FTP/SFTP session.
NOTE: The log files must be extracted from .zip file to view them. To examine diagnostic data, view
store_yyyy_mm_dd__hh_mm_ss.logs file first.
Transferring log data to a log-collection system
If the log-management feature is configured in pull mode, a log-collection system can access the storage system’s FTP or
SFTP interface and use the get managed-logs command to retrieve untransferred data from a system log file. This command
retrieves the untransferred data from the specified log to a compressed zip file on the log-collection system. Following the
transfer of a log’s data, the log’s capacity status is reset to zero indicate that there is no untransferred data. Log data is
controller specific.
For an overview of the log-management feature, see About managed logs.
Use a command-line-based FTP/SFTP client. A UI-based FTP client might not work.
Transfer log data to a log-collection system
Perform the following steps to transfer log data to a log-collection system:
1. In the PowerVault Manager, prepare to use FTP/SFTP:
a. Determine the network-port IP addresses of the system controllers. See Configuring controller network ports.
b. Verify that the FTP/SFTP service is enabled on the system. See Enable or disable system-management settings.
c. Verify that the user you will log in as has permission to use the FTP/SFTP interface. See Adding, modifying, and deleting
users.
2. On the log-collection system, open a Command Prompt (Windows) or a terminal window (UNIX) and go to the destination
directory for the log file.
3. Type:
sftp -P port controller-network-address or
ftp controller-network-address
sftp -P 1022 10.235.216.152 or
ftp 10.1.0.9
4. Log in as a user that has permission to use the FTP/SFTP interface.
5. Type:
get managed-logs:log-type filename.zip
where:
● log-type specifies the type of log data to transfer:
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