Manuel d'utilisation / d'entretien du produit 5.4 du fabricant ADIC
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Release Notes 6-00031-05 Re v A © December 2004, ADIC ® ADIC is a regis tered trad emark of Adva nced Digita l Informatio n Corporation. All other prod uct, company, o r service name s mentioned h erein are the property o f their respect ive owners .
2 © December 2004, ADIC New Features These features and enhan cements are new in this release of AMASS for UNIX: • AMASS Read Only —AMASS read only allows users to set AMASS to a read only state. You can read from AMASS, but not write or d elete.
© December 2004, ADIC 3 • 4 = Sets sc si_verbose fl ag. • 8 = Sets select_debug flag (in libsched select_drive fu nction). • 15 = ALL: 1+2+4+8 • Enhanced Ca che —There are enhance ments to the AMASS feature Enhanced Ca che Control. The core of AMASS is a cach e in which data is held prior to migrating to/from media.
4 © December 2004, ADIC • -x Turns on SCSI debugging. • -j Directs the medialist command to jukebox ID rather than the default of 1. • Network Attache d Libraries —Enhancements to the networ k attached library inter face include: • Reducing the numb er of 'query drive' co mmands thus softening the load on the XDI interface.
© December 2004, ADIC 5 • -i Change volume status to inactive. • -f Sets a tape volume to NOT FULL. Adds the value vlk_maxxfr found in amass/scripts/amassconfig2 to the volume capacity.
6 © December 2004, ADIC • 3800ux 128 slots • 7100ux 238 slots • Plasmon G-Series with UDO The Plasmon G-Series librari es were pr eviously supported with optical drives. Mixing drive types within the librar y is not currently supporte d. •G 6 4 • G104 • G164 • G238 • G438 • G638 Additional firmware support includes: • ACSLS 7.
© December 2004, ADIC 7 View Patches To view a list of the patches tha t are currently ins t alled on your machine, ente r the appropriate comman d listed in the following table. Note ADIC assumes that you have inst alled all of the patches that your vend or recommended for your kernel, operating system, ne twork, hardware, and storage devic es.
8 © December 2004, ADIC Compatibility Matrix AMASS 5.4 is comp atible with Dat aMgr 3.6.2 and later . Refer to the following table for information on firmware compatibility with AMASS for UNIX Version 5.4: Description Firmware Level Library ADIC Scalar 24 107A.
© December 2004, ADIC 9 IBM L TO-1 3643 LT O - 2 4 2 D 1 3590B1A Fibre A_4EF 3590B1A SCSI NOTE: An installed IBM 3590B1A tape drive in a S torageT ek Silo ACS 4400 is seen by the ACSLS as a 9490 Timberline.
10 © December 2004, ADIC Tape Features In this release, the following table describes the features that are available with the listed t a pe drives. Ta p e D r i v e s Configure Block Size ( volforma.
© December 2004, ADIC 11 Sony SDX-700C (AIT -3) X X X X Requires minimum FW level 0102 Sony GY -212 0 (DTF-1) X X Requires minimum FW level 1.10 X Requires minimum FW level 1.
12 © December 2004, ADIC Upgrade Guidelines When upgrading to AMASS 5.4, please make no te of the following upgrade guidelines. Upgrade Instructions 1 For pre-inst allation instructions for a specific storage device, refer to the Accessing S torage Devices book.
© December 2004, ADIC 13 SCSI-Attached Devices: Co nnect the storage devices to the SCSI bus on the server . Make sure the SCSI bus is properly terminated.
14 © December 2004, ADIC Fibre Channel Guidelines The following guidelines exist for AMASS running with fibre channel. HP-UX Fibre For AMASS users in a HP-UX fibre environment connec ted to a PathLight 5000 SNC, the environment variable: AMASS_PLSNK should be used.
© December 2004, ADIC 15 # ls -l /hw/scsi total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 1000006045170ad2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 2000000087000b63 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 2000000087002b04 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 2000000087003124 3 Look at the contents of the node directo ry for that device.
16 © December 2004, ADIC Operating Guidelines When operating AMASS 5.4, pl ease make note of the following operating guidelines. IRIX: Tape Support (TS) system The tape supp ort (TS) system consists of a tape support driver , personality daemons, and a daemon to manage the personality daem ons.
© December 2004, ADIC 17 Known Issues Known issues in this release of AM ASS for UNIX Version 5.4 are listed in the table below. In addition to the following known issues, be aware of the setup and operationa l guidelines.
18 © December 2004, ADIC All 34938 Cannot delete a f ile or the volume on which the file resides. Set the environment al variable to VOLCLEAN_O LD in the command window and re-run voldelete . 35398 READAHEAD does not function as expect ed. The nature of th is problem is to be determined.
© December 2004, ADIC 19 Resolved Issues Problems that have been resolved in this release of AMASS for UNIX are as follows: Operating System Change Request Number Description All 8688 It is not possible to reco ver from ACSLS network drop without restarting.
20 © December 2004, ADIC Documentation The following documents are curr ently available for the AMASS: All 36713 Make changes to AMASS/XDI and the ssi daemon to support timeouts. 37250 Dat a base error -6 hangs th e system. AIX 34556 AMASS prompt bus failure on AIX install.
Un point important après l'achat de l'appareil (ou même avant l'achat) est de lire le manuel d'utilisation. Nous devons le faire pour quelques raisons simples:
Si vous n'avez pas encore acheté ADIC 5.4 c'est un bon moment pour vous familiariser avec les données de base sur le produit. Consulter d'abord les pages initiales du manuel d'utilisation, que vous trouverez ci-dessus. Vous devriez y trouver les données techniques les plus importants du ADIC 5.4 - de cette manière, vous pouvez vérifier si l'équipement répond à vos besoins. Explorant les pages suivantes du manuel d'utilisation ADIC 5.4, vous apprendrez toutes les caractéristiques du produit et des informations sur son fonctionnement. Les informations sur le ADIC 5.4 va certainement vous aider à prendre une décision concernant l'achat.
Dans une situation où vous avez déjà le ADIC 5.4, mais vous avez pas encore lu le manuel d'utilisation, vous devez le faire pour les raisons décrites ci-dessus,. Vous saurez alors si vous avez correctement utilisé les fonctions disponibles, et si vous avez commis des erreurs qui peuvent réduire la durée de vie du ADIC 5.4.
Cependant, l'un des rôles les plus importants pour l'utilisateur joués par les manuels d'utilisateur est d'aider à résoudre les problèmes concernant le ADIC 5.4. Presque toujours, vous y trouverez Troubleshooting, soit les pannes et les défaillances les plus fréquentes de l'apparei ADIC 5.4 ainsi que les instructions sur la façon de les résoudre. Même si vous ne parvenez pas à résoudre le problème, le manuel d‘utilisation va vous montrer le chemin d'une nouvelle procédure – le contact avec le centre de service à la clientèle ou le service le plus proche.
