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Administrative Tasks
VolServ Version 5.0
September 2001
601354 Rev A
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Trademark Notice AMASS, DataMgr, EMASS, FileServ, and VolServ are either trademarks or registered trademarks of ADIC, Advanced Digital Information Corporation. DAS is a trademark of Grau, an ADIC subsidiary. All other product names and identifications are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Copyright Notice ® © 1996-2001 ADIC . All rights reserved. This document is the property of ADIC. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, s
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Contents Preface Purpose of This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-3 Who Should Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-3 How This Book is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-3 Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-4 Books .
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Administrative Tasks Process Server Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-21 VolServ Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-21 CiReply Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-22 Archive Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-23 Configuration Lo
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Administrative Tasks Auto Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-12 Configure a Manual Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-15 Media Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-16 Register Archive with VolServ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-18 Define a Media
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Administrative Tasks Archive Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-6 Configure/ Reconfigure an Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-6 Delete an Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-6 Change Archive Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-7 Vary Archive . . . . . . . .
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Administrative Tasks Remove Media from an Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-31 Clear Eject List Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-33 Move Media to Another Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-34 Intransit Media (Move) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-34 Modify Media Criteria . . . . . . . . .
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Administrative Tasks Archive Operations 5 Automated Archive Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-3 Enter Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-4 Eject Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-6 Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Preface P Purpose of This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P-3 Who Should Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P-3 How This Book is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P-3 Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P-4 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P-5 Preface Online Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P-5 Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Administrative Tasks NOTES P-2 Preface 601354 Rev A
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Preface Administrative Tasks This book describes the management tasks used to operate Purpose of VolServ. This Book This book is written for the system administrator who is Who Should operating and troubleshooting VolServ. Read This It assumes the administrator has a strong familiarity with: Book UNIX operating systems Applications running in their site environment This book contains the following chapters: How This Book is Chapter 1: Getting Started — Introduces the document and it’s
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Administrative Tasks Chapter 6: Troubleshoot — Troubleshooting tips for VolServ software problems. The conventions used throughout the VolServ technical books Conventions are listed below: Convention Example Screen text, file names, program names, and Request to add a new volume: commands are in Courier font. Volume group will be “20” Volume position will be “A123”. The root prompt is shown as a number # su root symbol. What you should type in is shown in Courier vsarchiveqry bold font. Site-
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Preface Administrative Tasks The books described below are part of the technical Books documentation set, and are shipped on CD along with the VolServ software: Overview Administrative Tasks Provides an overview of VolServ. Contains a Describes how to perform system glossary. administrative tasks using VolServ commands. Installing VolServ Describes server requirements, installation Command Reference instructions, troubleshooting procedures, Contains a list of VolServ commands and configurat
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Administrative Tasks The publications described in the table below are created and Related distributed on an as-needed basis. Publications Related Publications Description “Release Notes” For each version of VolServ, the “Release Notes” contain: Summary of enhancements Describes: - Fixed problems - Known problems - Installation and configuration issues Lists: - Operating system patches - System requirements “Product Alerts” Informs customers of technical problems and solutions. “Product B
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Getting Started Command Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 CLI and API Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1 GUI Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Environment Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12 Control Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 Software Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-15 System Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16 Configuration Environme
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Administrative Tasks Roadmap Refer To Topic Chapter General software access information 1 Hardware and software start-up 2 Site-specific configuration of archives and drives 3 Daily operations 4 Archive operation and configuration 5 Troubleshooting tips and solutions 6 1-2 Getting Started 601354 Rev A
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Getting Started Administrative Tasks After VolServ is installed, the VolServ System Administrator Command (SA) configures the VolServ environment to control Command Access Line Interface (CLI), Application Program Interface (API), and Graphical User Interface (GUI) access to the VolServ system. The following sections provide a recommended plan for controlling access to specific VolServ software commands. The commands available to any application via CLI or API are CLI and API controlled
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Administrative Tasks The commands available to a client application are shown in the following table. Capability Description Media Operations Import Media Inserts media into the system and update the VolServ database with the new media identifiers. Export Media Removes media from the system and any knowledge of the media identifier from the VolServ database. Check-in Media Logically checks media into the VolServ system that were checked out. Check-out Media Checks media out of an archive. C
