Using command-line tools with WhatsUp Active and Performance monitors
Sometimes you just can’t get the information you’re looking for from SNMP or WMI and need to use proprietary command-line tools. Here’s a way using VBScript to run those command line tools and get the...
View ArticleCollecting disk usage data from UNC paths
If you’re not using windows or linux devices to present your CIF shares then collecting usage data can be quite tricky. We ran up against this recently while using EMC Celerra devices to present our...
View ArticleReinflating stubs on the Celerra from secondary storage
After looking around the web I couldn’t see any obvious way to reinflate files on a secondary filesystem back to the primary on the Celerra. However, the solution is quite simple. When you delete the...
View Articlerecallonly [ Migration: FAIL ] and recallonly [ Migration: ERROR ]
If you’re recalling data from an archive filesystem (see previous post) and you get one of these errors: state = recallonly [ Migration: FAIL ] state = recallonly [...
View Article“Shrinking” a Celerra filesystem
There’s no easy way to shrink a filesystem on the celerra. Once the filesystem size has grown or has been set it can’t be shrunk. However, you can get around it with a very short outage by creating a...
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