Commands

SAN File System has two sets of commands: administrative and client commands.

Administrative commands

The administrative commands run on the storage engines that host the metadata server. Most commands must be run from the master metadata server. There are a few commands that must be run from subordinate metadata server for specific situations.

You run a majority of the administrative commands from the sfscli session to manage SAN File System. There are a few commands that must be run from the operating-system shell prompt.

To use the administrative commands, you must log in directly to the engine, or from another workstation through SSH, using the local operating system authentication mechanism. You must then log in to the administrative server on the engine using the same administrative user ID and password that you would use to log into the SAN File System console. You can specify the password in one of two ways:
  • Set the password using the tankpasswd utility.
  • Set the SFS_CLI_PASSWDFILE environment variable to the location of the password file.

When you run administrative commands that take a long time to complete, in a system with active applications, those applications that are sensitive to the response time of the system might experience timeout errors. An example of a possible long running command is quiescecluster.

Tip: The administrative commands are case sensitive. If you enter a command in uppercase, you receive an error.

Client commands

The client commands run on any client machine on which the client file-system driver has been installed. It provides a set of commands that you can use to manage your clients.

To use the client commands, you must log in directly to the client machine or from another workstation using SSH. You log in using the user ID and password for the client machine. You must have administrative (Windows®) or root (UNIX-based) privileges to use the client commands.

Parent topic: Reference

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