how to best organize the info

[Rick Garland]

Hi all:

Got multiple rp7410s each with a hard partition (n-node=2) and these rp systems are connected to McData DS24 switches which ultimately connect to EMC 8830 array. Running the ECC 5.1.1 SP3.

Lots of info to digest. Almost seems overwhelming.

Looking for some tips/tricks on organizing the presented info so I know what is out there, what is available, what I can play with, etc...

What are some of the best practices - I will work with symcli as well.

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

I like using cfg2html:

http://come.to/cfg2html

I also use HP's sysinfo3.01 and ISEE.

Rgds...Geoff

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Rick,

I would constantly save the configuration of the systems such as 'vgdisplay -v', 'strings /etc/lvmtab', 'syminq', 'ioscan -fnC disk', 'preview' maps generated with various options like -m, -s, -f etc.,. You can put them all in a cronjob, that runs once in every week and saves the information on a central server. You can also run tools such as cfg2html, sysinfo etc., that can display the information in HTML format to a central server periodically such that you can view them online.

Also, it may be a good idea to follow some standards like VG name representing the EMC array, shared/dedicated, etc., so that you don't need to do a lot of work when you need to find that information. Standardize the slot configuration (like 6795A always goes into the slot 0/0/8/0/0 on any RP7410), keeping their device files same (using ioinit) etc., can really save you a lot of time energy during the maintenances.

-Sri

[Rick Garland]

Kinda what I thought. Just seems like a whole lot of info to keep track of from the EMC configs.

I have used cfg2html and like the output it will provide for the LVM stuff.

Thanks!