{"id":51,"date":"2012-10-14T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdsector.com\/ns\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-10-14T21:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:33:01","slug":"useful-isilon-commands-for-troubleshooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdsector.com\/ns\/2012\/10\/14\/useful-isilon-commands-for-troubleshooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Isilon Commands for Troubleshooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some some useful Isilon commands to assist you in troubleshooting Isilon storage array issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grep the log for stalled drives on the isilon cluster<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<code>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">cat \/var\/log\/messages |grep -o 'stalled: [0-9,*:]*'|sort |uniq -c<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<p>(Stalled drives are bad, and can cause cluster problems. you could also run this command on the individual nodes \/var\/log\/restripe.log )<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grep the log for stalled drives on the isilon cluster for month of Sept<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">grep 'Nov ' \/var\/log\/messages |grep -o 'stalled: [0-9,*:]*'|sort |uniq -c<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Use this on the restripe.log<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">\u00a0 grep 'Nov ' \/var\/log\/restripe.log |grep -o 'Stalled drives are \\[[0-9,*:]*\\]'|sort |uniq -c <\/span><\/pre>\n<p>When reviewing the results of the stalled drives it is important to note that the drive numbers listed is the logical drive number and not the bay number. \u00a0You need to run the command &#8220;isi devices&#8221; on the node with the suspect drive to determine what bay the drive is actually in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Display the SMART error log of all the drives on a given isilon node:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"><code>isi_radish -a|less<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Display the current isilon Flexprotect Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"><code>isi get \/ifs<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Display the current isilon node hardware status:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"><code>isi_hw_status<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Display the status of the isilon node network config<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">isi config<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<p>then while in the config utility<\/p>\n<pre>\u00a0<code><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">status\u00a0<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Display this list of alerts in wide format<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"><code>isi alerts -w<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Start\/Stop\/Resume\/Pause Restriper jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"> isi restripe pause <\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">isi restripe start <\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">isi restripe stop <\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"> isi restripe resume -i<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Display the drive status of a given isilon node<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 <code>\u00a0#for node 3<\/code><\/div>\n<pre>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<code>isi devices -d 3 \u00a0<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Display the SAS drives Physical Monitoring stats for errors<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>\u00a0 \u00a0 <code>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">less \/var\/log\/isi_sasphymon.acc<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Test Active Directory connections from all isilon nodes<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<code>isi_for_array wbinfo -t<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>To find an open file on Isilon Windows share<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<code>isi_for_array -q -s smbstatus | grep<\/code> <\/span><\/pre>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0then find the PID from the results and \u00a0then run this to get the user<\/div>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<code>isi_for_array -q -s smbstatus -u| grep \u00a0 \u00a0to get the user<\/code><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/span> The isi_for_array command runs the command on all of the nodes. This command will ask for the user&#8217;s password so that it can login to the other nodes and complete the command. When passing the results of a &#8220;isi_for_array&#8221; command to another command such as grep (like the example above) will require the user password so that it can be passed to the other nodes. 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