topic Re: tools for clarion disks in Disk

tools for clarion disks

Hanry Zhou — Wed, 28 May 2003 21:32:15 GMT

I have a number of clarion disks (DGC) on 11.0 system, Fibre channel connection.

Where I can find all these tools that I can use to do something with these disks?

Where are they usually installed? There got be some tools provided by EMC.

Re: tools for clarion disks

Michael Tully — Wed, 28 May 2003 21:48:47 GMT

The tools your after are called Navisphere. You need to have an agent running on each system that is connected to your clariion. You also should have a management station (ours is on a windows Nt server) that controls the storage groups for each attached server.
If you don't know what your doing, you can cause some serious problems. Your best bet is to contact your local EMC CE for assistance.

"When I have trouble spelling, it's called fat finger syndrome"

Re: tools for clarion disks

Michael Tully — Wed, 28 May 2003 21:48:59 GMT

The tools your after are called Navisphere. You need to have an agent running on each system that is connected to your clariion. You also should have a management station (ours is on a windows Nt server) that controls the storage groups for each attached server.
If you don't know what your doing, you can cause some serious problems. Your best bet is to contact your local EMC CE for assistance.

Regards
Michael
"When I have trouble spelling, it's called fat finger syndrome"

Re: tools for clarion disks

Hanry Zhou — Thu, 29 May 2003 12:35:21 GMT

I don't know where the agent is supposed to be installed on the box, can you tell me that how to find out these agent?

Re: tools for clarion disks

Eugeny Brychkov — Thu, 29 May 2003 13:42:52 GMT

Can you please be more specific? Which DGC? Can you attach 'ioscan -fn'? I guess you're talking about Clariion-based HA disk array aka Nike
Eugeny

Re: tools for clarion disks

Hanry Zhou — Thu, 29 May 2003 13:48:19 GMT

Eugeny, It is DGC C66600WDR5 type of disks

Re: tools for clarion disks

Hanry Zhou — Thu, 29 May 2003 13:48:41 GMT

Eugeny, It is DGC C66600WDR5 type of disks

Re: tools for clarion disks

Eugeny Brychkov — Thu, 29 May 2003 14:02:52 GMT

Is it this one: http://www.emc.com/products/systems/clariion_cx600.jsp ?
Eugeny

Re: tools for clarion disks

Greg Hobbs — Thu, 29 May 2003 14:08:57 GMT

You can verify if the Navisphere software is on your system by doing a 'swlist -l product | grep NAV' should show you an agent and a CLI (cmd line interface)

For us the software is right under /opt at /opt/Navisphere.
And the CLI executable is navicli. You should be able to find a man page for it to, which I found very useful. However as Michael pointed out you probably ought to talk to your CE if you're unsure of things. I only use the navicli from our HPs for reading off of the Clariion - i.e. checking cache settings, checking errorlogs. I always use the management software on the PC for any configuration.

Hope this helps some.

Greg

Re: tools for clarion disks

Hanry Zhou — Fri, 30 May 2003 17:19:36 GMT

thank Eugeny and Greg for the response.

Where I can find complete Navisphere manual, including management, configurations, and also navicli commnad?

I went the URL Eugeny referred, but could not find online manuals.

Re: tools for clarion disks

Greg Hobbs — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:23:25 GMT

Hanry,

You may need to register on Powerlink at EMC to see the online manuals. If you go to www.emc.com, on the left side of the page is a graphic for Powerlink and a button for registering but it does require an EMC provided access code. You may have to contact the support line for yours if you don't know it.
Anyway, if you can get logged into Powerlink, you can then select Advanced Search, fill in Navisphere or navicli as your string and click the Manuals button and then search. There's usually a lot of hits, but the document titles are pretty straight forward - this is how I've found the online docs in the past.
Also, for the navicli, if you've found the software on your system, try setting your MANPATH environment variable to point to the man directory: i.e export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/Navisphere/man Then you can just use the command man navicli
The man page for navicli is quite good, I thought.

Greg