The following quick guide will show you how to configure LDAP to an active directory domain from the Santricity (11.5) web based interface. Log into Santricity Web GUI and go to Settings -> Access Management Click Directory Services -> Add Directory Server I filled out the following under Server Settings. Please change to your Then Read More…
Category: SAN
Error: Unused Cluster Ports Exist in the Cluster – Netapp AFF C190 Setup Failure
Problem When trying to create new two node cluster on a Netapp C190. Trying to create cluster again as previous attempt failed. Error: Unused cluster ports exist in the cluster. One or more ports may not be in the “healthy” state, or may be incorrectly assigned to the “Cluster” Ipspace. Run “network port show -ipspace Read More…
Reboot Loop Limit Exceeded – NetApp E5760
Problem: When installing (well, remote hands in a datacenter) an NetApp E5760 with DE460C shelf, after the initial configuration of the management IP address the array went into the following state: Reboot Loop Limit Exceeded Lockdown code: 0ELF The storage array has exceeded its reboot limit and has locked down to preserve the data on Read More…
SMCLI Commands for NetApp E-Series
Issue I needed to remove a disk from a disk pool on an E-series 5700 (http://www.jordansphere.co.uk/remove-drives-from-pool-in-netapp-e-series/ ). This can only be done via SMCLI – which i’d never used before. Here are few useful steps and commands I found on the way. Steps Firstly I needed to install the E-Series Santricity Manager (despite the my Read More…
Remove Drives from Pool in Netapp E-Series
Problem I needed to remove a drive from a Pool in a Netapp E5760 in order to be a hot spare Solution You need to do this via SMCLI or Run the query from Santricity. As you have to install Santricity for access to SMCLI, I just used the Manager software to run the query. Read More…
DDBoost Account Locked
Problem Veeam backups starting failing with an authentication issue to our Data Domain. Solution Upon investigation it appears the DDBoost account was locked. This appears to have been reset to 90 days after a recent upgrade. 1) SSH to Data Domain and log in as sysadmin account 2) Run following command: As you see it Read More…
Find Serial Number of Shelf on Ontap v9.x
Problem: I needed to locate the serial number of a new shelf i’d just added. Solution: Login to the cluster via SSH and run the following command my-sannapp01::> storage shelf show
Garbage Collection in NetApp Solidfire
Garbage collection on Solidfire starts at the top of every hour: To run the job manually https://{mgmt-vip}/json-rpc/5.0?method=StartGC If you need to run a check on the status of the GC then you can use the following command https://{mgmt-vip}/json-rpc/5.0?method=GetGCStatus
Find Temperature of CPU on Cisco s3260
Problem I got an alert on a Cisco S-Series that CPU #1 and the rear temp was high in Zabbix (over 65c). There were no alerts via the CIMC GUI These temperatures did not match the sensors located in the GUI so i needed to track down where the values were actually coming from. Solution SSH Read More…
Increase iNodes on Netapp FAS
Problem Our alerting system notified us that inodes were nearing the system limit on a CIFS share (aka unipod_cifs) on a FAS running ONTap 9 Solution The following command will shiow current usage syntax volume show {cifs_name} -fields files, files-used command volume show unipod_cifs -fields files, files-used To increase the inodes use the following syntax Read More…