Displaying filer configuration information

Use the sysconfig command

The sysconfig command displays information about the filer's hardware configuration. The exact types of information displayed depend on the command options.

Displaying disk information using sysconfig -d

The sysconfig -d command displays product information about each disk in the filer.

Displaying RAID information using sysconfig -r

The sysconfig -r command displays RAID configuration information about the parity disk, data disks, and hot spare disks, if any. This information is useful for the following purposes:

• Locating a disk referenced in a screen message. Refer to "Using disks of various sizes" for more information about disk identifiers.
• Determining how much space on each disk is available to the filer. Refer to "Understanding usable space on each disk" for more information about disk capacity.
• Determining the status of the disk operations, such as RAID scrubbing, reconstruction, parity verification, adding a hot spare, and disk failure.

You can obtain the information displayed by sysconfig -r from SNMP, using the Network Appliance custom MIB. For information about SNMP, see "Using SNMP."

Displaying tape drive information using sysconfig -t

The sysconfig -t command displays device and configuration information for each tape drive on the system. Use this command to determine the capacity of the tape drive and the device name before you use the dump and restore commands.

Displaying overall filer information using sysconfig -v

The sysconfig -v command displays the system's RAM size, NVRAM size, and information about devices in all expansion slots. This information varies according to the devices on the filer. You can specify a slot number to display information about a particular slot. Slot numbers start at 0, where slot 0 is the system board.

Displaying overall filer information using sysconfig

If you enter sysconfig without any options, information similar to what you get with sysconfig -v is displayed, but the information is abbreviated. When you report a problem to Network Appliance, provide the information displayed by sysconfig -v. This information is useful for diagnosing system problems.

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