Preface

About this guide

This guide describes the field service procedures for replacing, upgrading, and maintaining hardware units in all models of the NetApp® F700 series of filers.

Use this guide after you familiarize yourself with the system hardware by reading the current version of the following guides.

Note
A current version of the following guides is available at the NetApp on the Web (NOW) Web page at http://now.netapp.com.

Reference document...	Provides information about...
Data ONTAP System Administrator's Guide	How to operate and manage your filer
F700 Series Hardware Guide	Initial system installation and how to open the filer chassis

This guide does not provide information about disk shelves. For disk shelf information, see the hardware guide for the disk shelf that is part of your system.

Audience

This guide is for field service engineers, service providers, and customers who purchased the service kit from Network Appliance. The procedures in this guide describe replacement, upgrade, and maintenance tasks for personnel with the following skills and experience:

Working familiarity with small computer system hardware and operation
Basic understanding of common networking concepts and practices
Working familiarity with accepted tools and procedures for installing and operating sensitive electronic equipment

Terminology

In this guide

Filer refers to all Network Appliance^TM filer models in the NetApp F700 series.
Expansion adapters used in NetApp F700 series filers refers to the following adapters:
- NVRAM adapter
- FC-AL adapter
- SCSI adapters
- Network interface cards/adapters (NICs)
  Note
  See the System Configuration Guide on the NetApp on the Web (NOW) Web site at http://now.netapp.com for a current version of the list of expansion adapters that you can use with your filer.
Disk shelf refers to any NetApp disk shelf.

Command conventions

You can enter filer commands on the system console or from any client that can obtain access to the filer using telnet. In examples of commands run on a UNIX® workstation, this guide uses the command syntax and output of SunOS 4.1x. (The command syntax and output might be different, depending on your version of UNIX.)

Formatting conventions

In this guide, the following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Formatting convention	Type of information
Italic type	Words or characters that require special attention. File names. Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the `arp -d hostname` command, you enter the characters "arp -d" followed by the actual name of the host. Man page names. Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced` font	Command and daemon names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. The contents of files.
`Bold monospaced` font	Words or characters you type.

Keyboard conventions

This guide uses capitalization and some abbreviations to see the keys on the keyboard. (The keys on your keyboard might not be labeled exactly as they are in this guide.)

What is in this guide...	What it means...
hyphen (-)	Used to separate individual keys. For example Ctrl-D means holding down the Ctrl key while pressing the D key.
Enter	Used to see the key that generates a carriage return, although the key is named Return on some keyboards.
type	Used to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard.
enter	Used to mean pressing one or more keys and then pressing the Enter key.

Special messages

This guide contains special messages that are described as follows:

Note
A note contains important information that helps you install or operate the system efficiently.

Caution
A caution contains instructions that you must follow to avoid damage to the equipment, a system crash, or loss of data.

WARNING
A warning contains instructions that you must follow to avoid personal injury.