Commands for displaying IBM Storage Scale information

IBM® Storage Scale commands are provided to display IBM Storage Scale information.

The following commands yield IBM Storage Scale information for troubleshooting. The commands are organized by the type of information that they yield.

Cluster-specific information
Enter these commands on one node in the cluster.
  • To display the configuration information for an IBM Storage Scale cluster, enter the following command:

    /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmlscluster

  • To display the available file space on a GPFS™ file system, enter the following command:

    /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmdf device

  • To display all the GPFS policy information for a specified file system, enter the following command:

    /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmlspolicy device –L

  • To display the state of the GPFS daemon on all nodes in the cluster, enter the following command:

    usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmgetstate –a

  • To display the cluster configuration data for an IBM Storage Scale cluster, enter the following command:

    /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmlsconfig

  • To create a memory dump of the GPFS DMAPI information, enter the following command:

    /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin/mmfsadm dump dmapi

Node-specific information
To display the IBM Storage Scale node configuration, enter the following command on all nodes in the cluster:
/usr/bin/cat /var/mmfs/gen/mmsdrfs

For information about IBM Storage Scale commands and IBM Storage Scale requirements for the IBM Storage® Protect for Space Management client, go to the IBM Storage Scale product information and see Protecting data in a file system using the mmbackup command.