Filer configuration information

Version information

The version command displays the version of Data ONTAP currently running on a filer.

Hardware configuration

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

For more information about the sysconfig command, see the na_sysconfig(1) man page.

Expansion cards

The sysconfig -c command checks that expansion cards are in the appropriate slots and reports any configuration errors. If there are no configuration errors, the sysconfig -c command reports the following:

sysconfig: There are no configuration errors

Disk information

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

RAID and checksum information

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

Locating a disk referenced in a console message
Determining how much space on each disk is available to the filer
Determining the status of disk operations, such as RAID scrubbing, reconstruction, parity verification, adding a hot spare, and disk failure
Determining the number of spare disks
Determining a checksum type for a volume

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

Tape drive information

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

Volume information

The sysconfig -V command displays RAID group and disk information about each volume.

Tape library information

The sysconfig -m command displays tape library information. Before you can use this option, ensure that the filer was booted with the autoload setting of the tape library off.

Overall filer information

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.

The sysconfig -a command displays the same information as the -v option, but the information is more detailed.

Note
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.

Comprehensive filer information

The sysconfig -A command displays filer information gathered by the following commands, one after the other:

sysconfig
sysconfig -c
sysconfig -d
sysconfig -V
sysconfig -r
sysconfig -m

Therefore, when you use the sysconfig -A command, Data ONTAP lists information about configuration errors, disk drives, medium changers, RAID details, tape devices, and volume details.