Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Storage Systems Administrator Guide for the metro node appliance
- Contents
- Preface
- CLI Workspace and User Accounts
- Meta Volumes
- System Management
- Thin support in metro node
- Provisioning Storage
- Volume expansion
- Data migration
- About data migrations
- Migrating thin-capable storage
- About rebuilds
- One-time data migrations
- Batch migrations
- Prerequisites
- Creating a batch migration plan
- Checking a batch migration plan
- Modifying a batch migration file
- Starting a batch migration
- Pausing/resuming a batch migration (optional)
- Canceling a batch migration (optional)
- Monitoring a batch migration’s progress
- Viewing a batch migration’s status
- Committing a batch migration
- Cleaning a batch migration
- Removing batch migration records
- Configure the WAN Network
- Cluster Witness
- Consistency Groups
- Performance and Monitoring
- Metro node with active-passive storage arrays
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Enabling and disabling of ports
Before enabling and disabling of ports, you must complete the system configuration. For more information about changing
specific configuration parameter with the enabling and disabling of ports, see the section Enabling and disabling of the
metro node ports in the Configuration and Installation Guide of the metro node appliance available at SolVe (https://
solveonline.emc.com/solve/home/74).
Port Monitoring
Details related to port-stats-monitor script.
Getting Started
The port-stats-monitor script can be used to identify the metro node ports which are observing problems. The metro
node system may, or may not, be experiencing an issue due to the problems that the port-stats-monitor script is noting.
However, it does indicate that there is a problem in the SAN that must be addressed before the metro node is impacted. These
problems may, or may not, be specific to the metro node. Sometimes, it may be required to disable the problem ports that are
identified by the script as having or seeing a problem until the SAN problem is located and addressed.
The FC port monitoring script has the following features:
● Polls only metro node FC ports once a minute and will send an email to a configured email address if it detects a possible
fabric issue.
● Explicitly identifies the cluster, director, and port experiencing the fabric issue.
● Reports on any degraded FC initiator-target pairs.
● The thresholds in the script can be modified in the json configuration file.
● Suppress error reports after 5 minutes, after which a summary email will be sent detailing the port error reports during the
period where email were being suppressed.
NOTE:
It is intended that support would work with the end user to deploy the monitoring script for setting up the
port-stats-monitor script for the email server address and email list for those persons they want to receive the reports that
the script will send out.
Example: port-monitor start [--email <email>,<email>,...]
Setting up the script for e-mailing of reports
Start the script and connect to the email (SMTP) server of the end user.
VPlexcli:/> port-monitor start --smtp <mail server ip address> -e [<email>,<email>,...]
NOTE:
Once the script is started, then the output from it will be recorded in the file port-stats-monitor.log which is
viewable under /var/log/VPlex/cli.
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