Data ONTAP® 7.1
System Administration Guide

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Preface

Chapter 1: Introducing NetApp Storage Systems
About storage systems
About storage system components
About Data ONTAP

Chapter 2: Interfacing with Data ONTAP
How you administer a storage system
Using the command line interface
Using Data ONTAP commands at different privilege levels

Chapter 3: Accessing the Storage System
Access methods
Accessing a storage system from the console
Accessing a storage system using a Telnet session
Accessing a storage system using a Remote Shell connection
Accessing a storage system using the HTTP/Web interface, FilerView
Managing access from administration hosts
Controlling storage system access

Chapter 4: Understanding the Root Volume
Root volume size and space guarantee requirements
Default directories in the root volume
Contents of the /etc directory
Accessing the default directories on the storage system
Editing configuration files
Changing the root volume

Chapter 5: Starting and Stopping the Storage System
Booting the storage system
	Booting from the storage system boot diskette set
	Booting the F87 storage system
	Booting the FAS200 and FAS3000 series storage systems
	Booting the F800 and FAS900 series storage systems
Using storage systems as netboot servers
Rebooting the storage system
Halting the storage system

Chapter 6: Managing Administrator Access
Using administrator accounts to control administrative access
	About managing administrator access
	Managing users
	Managing groups
	Managing roles
	Listing and deleting users, groups and roles
	Administrative user creation examples
Managing passwords
	Managing passwords for security
	Changing passwords
	Managing password rules

Chapter 7: Performing General System Maintenance
Aggregate Snapshot copy management
Managing licenses
Setting the system date and time
Synchronizing the system time
Understanding core files
Configuring message logging
Configuring audit logging
Configuring storage system startup
	About the /etc/rc file
	Editing the storage system's boot configuration file
	Recovering from /etc/rc errors
Storage system configuration backup and cloning
UPS management

Chapter 8: Using AutoSupport
Learning about AutoSupport
Configuring AutoSupport
Troubleshooting AutoSupport
Interpreting AutoSupport messages
	About AutoSupport events
	Contents of AutoSupport messages

Chapter 9: Using SecureAdmin
Learning about SecureAdmin
	How SecureAdmin uses SSH
	How SecureAdmin uses SSL
Managing SSH for SecureAdmin
	Setting up and starting SSH
	Reinitializing SSH
	Stopping or starting SSH service
	Setting up public key-based authentication
Managing SSL for SecureAdmin
General SecureAdmin administration

Chapter 10: Managing Remotely with the RLM
About the Remote LAN Module (RLM)
Configuring the RLM
Managing the RLM with Data ONTAP
Logging in to the RLM
Managing the storage system with the RLM
Displaying storage system and RLM information
Comparing Data ONTAP and RLM commands
Troubleshooting the storage system with the RLM
Updating the RLM firmware
Troubleshooting RLM problems

Chapter 11: System Information and Performance
Storage system configuration information
Storage information
Aggregate information
Volume information
File statistics for volumes
	About the filestats command
	Options for the filestats command
Environmental status information
Fibre Channel information
Getting storage system information using the stats command
Getting system information using perfmon
Improving storage system performance

Chapter 12: Troubleshooting Tools
Storage system panics
Error messages
Other troubleshooting resources

Glossary

Index

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Data ONTAP® 7.1 System Administration Guide

Data ONTAP® 7.1
System Administration Guide