Some Netapp Links I find useful to share

These are some notes I normally Give out when teaching netapp classes:
Recommended Reading:

• • Sys configuration Guide
  • Data Protection Guide
  • San Guide
  • MetroCluster
• NETAPP SIMULATOR: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator
• Remote Lan Card Setup: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel723/html/ontap/sysadmin/10rlm3.htm
• Intro to Jumbo Frames: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel7121/html/ontap/nag/ifconfi3.htm
• iscsi & jumbo frames (30% improvement) whitepaper
  
• cisco jumbo frames configuration:

  Cat6509≶ (enable) set port jumbo
  Usage: set port jumbo  
  
  Cat6509> (enable) set port jumbo 1/1 enable
  Jumbo frames enabled on port  1/1.
  Cat6509> (enable) 2002 May 29 12:34:35 %PAGP-5-PORTFROMSTP:
  Port 1/1 left bridge port 1/1
  2002 May 29 12:34:38 %PAGP-5-PORTTOSTP:Port 1/1 joined bridge port 1/1

• Wikis:
  • DocuWiki: http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki
  • Drupal: http://drupal.org/
• ssh authorized_keys (passwordless ssh): http://www.nabble.com/ssh-config-on-DOT-7-t2595957.html
• ssh inline replacement of rsh on a unix host: http://www.didc.lbl.gov/DPSS/ssh-info.html
• MRTG for Netapp: http://www.netapp.com/news/techontap/0506tot_monthlytool_mrtg.html
  
• ToasterView Monitoring Program:http://www.cuddletech.com/code/toasterview/index.html
• Cricket netapp configurations http://cricket.sourceforge.net/contrib/
• log admin level commands to remote admin host: http://ecserv1.uwaterloo.ca/netapp/man/man5/na_syslog.conf.5.html
  edit /vol/vol0/etc/syslog.conf add the line:

  *.info;*.err;kern.*	@adminhost

  (where adminhost = your syslog server)

• RBAC Capabilities list: http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr_3358.pdf
• Disabinling Auto volume exports: “options nfs.export.auto-update off”
• Netapp Capacty Calculator:
  
• Quota Alerting Tool: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/disk_usage/
• Swatch (simple log watcher): http://swatch.sourceforge.net/
• Nagios Docs: http://www.nagios.org/docs/
• Nagios netapp plugins: http://nerhood.homeip.net/wordpress/archives/2006/06/19/monitoring-netapp-with-nagios-and-nagiosgraph/
• Cygwin (Unix functionality for windows): http://www.cygwin.com/
• Auth linux against Active Directory (user sync): http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-authconfig.html
• Microsoft Services for UNIX (mount NFS on windows): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778&displaylang=en
  • http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html
  • http://cdfcaf.fnal.gov/doc/cdfnote_5962/node16.html
  • Tech Report 3183- NFS, Linux, netapp filers: http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3183.pdf
  • TR-3481 (kerberos & nfs): http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3481.pdf

  #!/bin/bash
  ssh filer 'priv set advanced'
  ssh filer 'statit -b'
  sleep 30
  ssh filer 'statit -e -n' > /var/log/statit.out.$(date +%F.%s).txt
  ssh filer 'priv set'

NFS perf Tuning
statit archiving script:

• NDMP Backup to tape:http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel724/html/ontap/tapebkup/protecting/concept/c_oc_prot_data-backup-to-tape-using-ndmp-services.html