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Viewing logs, Checking volume clients – Apple Xsan 1.0 User Manual

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Chapter 6

Monitoring SAN Status

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Viewing Logs

You can use Xsan Admin to view diagnostic and informational messages that Xsan has
written to a computer’s system and console logs.

To view the system logs:

m

Open Xsan Admin, select a SAN in the SAN Components list, and click Logs. Use the
Show pop-up menu to change logs and the On pop-up menu to switch to another
computer. To find entries containing specific text, type the text in the Filter field and
press Return.

To view volume logs:

m

Open Xsan Admin, select a volume in the SAN Components list, and click Logs.

From the Command Line
To see the log for a particular volume from the command line, look at the file

/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/data/volume/log/cvlog

where

volume

is the name of the volume.

Checking Volume Clients

You can use Xsan Admin to see a summary of how many clients are using a volume or
a complete list of those clients.

To see the clients that are using a volume:

m

Open Xsan Admin, select the volume in the SAN Components list, and click Clients.

To see how many clients have a volume mounted:

m

Open Xsan Admin, select the volume in the SAN Components list, and click Overview.

From the Command Line
You can also use the

cvadmin who

command in Terminal to see a list of volume clients.

For more information, see the cvadmin man page or “Viewing or Changing Volume and
Storage Pool Settings (cvadmin)” on page 85
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