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• -M, --no-monitor

Explicitly tell mxinit not to monitor processes.

• --hba-status

Display the state of the FibreChannel host bus adapter drivers.

Administer init.d Scripts

When services such as NFS or Samba are configured on PSFS filesystems,

Matrix Server must be started before the service is started. To ensure that

Matrix Server starts before the service, modify the /etc/init.d script for the

desired service and add pmxs as a dependency.

In the init.d script, locate the line beginning with “# Required-Start:” and

add pmxs to the end of the line. For example, change the /etc/init.d/nfs

script from:

# Required-Start: $network $portmap

to:

# Required-Start: $network $portmap pmxs

Back Up and Restore Matrix Server

It is important to back up the matrix configuration whenever changes are

made. You can then easily restore the matrix if necessary.

If you are using Matrix Server filesystem quotas, you should also back up

the Matrix Server quota information after backing up your PSFS

filesystems.

Matrix Server Configuration

PolyServe recommends that you back up Matrix Server whenever the

matrix configuration or the membership partitions are changed. You

should make separate backups for each node in the matrix.