SSERBH_8.2.2 - Documentation Index

Table of Contents

• Welcome
• What's new
  • What's new
  • Release notes for IBM Storage Protect for Space Management 8.2 for UNIX and Linux
  • Version 8.2 readme files for fix packs
• Overview of the space management client
  • Migrating files overview
  • Recalling migrated files overview
  • Reconciling file systems overview
• Installing the space management client
  • General installation prerequisites and considerations
  • Installation overview for IBM Storage Scale AIX systems
    • Environment requirements for IBM Storage Scale AIX systems
    • Installing on AIX systems
    • Upgrading on IBM Storage Scale AIX systems
    • Uninstalling on IBM Storage Scale AIX systems
  • Installation overview for AIX JFS2 systems
    • Environment requirements for AIX JFS2 systems
    • Installing on AIX systems
  • Installation overview on IBM Storage Scale Linux systems
    • Environment requirements for IBM Storage Scale Linux systems
    • Installing on IBM Storage Scale Linux systems
    • Upgrading on IBM Storage Scale Linux systems
    • Uninstalling on IBM Storage Scale Linux systems
  • Registering the space management client with the IBM Storage Protect server
    • Registering your node by using open registration
    • Closed registration
  • Password management
• Managing space for AIX and Linux systems
  • Configuring the space management client
    • Displaying space management client options
    • Editing the options files by using the backup-archive client
      • Editing the options file dsm.sys
      • Editing the options file dsm.opt
    • Configuring the connection to a failover IBM Storage Protect server
    • Configuring IBM Storage Protect for space management client communication across a firewall
    • Optional setup features
      • Assignment of management classes to files
      • Displaying management class information
      • Include-exclude file options
        • Creating an include-exclude list
      • Environment variables
        • Bourne and Korn shell variables
        • C shell variables
      • LAN-free data transfer for HSM
        • LAN-free prerequisites
        • LAN-free options
      • Configuring HSM on IBM Storage Scale clusters
        • HSM limitations and requirements on IBM Storage Scale file systems
      • Logs for HSM activity and error messages
  • Adding and configuring space management for a file system
    • Adding space management to file systems
    • Adding space management to nested file systems
      • Mounting the parent file system before nested file system
    • Adding space management to an exported file system
    • Removing or reconfiguring a space-managing node in an IBM Storage Scale cluster
    • Changing the mount point of a space-managed file system
      • Mounting a space-managed file system at a mount point for which a file space does not exist
      • Mounting a previously space-managed file system at a new mount point for which a file space already exists
    • Adding space management to workload partitions on AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1 operating systems
    • Configuration by using the command line
    • Settings that control the space usage of a file system
      • Minimum migration file size
      • Migration threshold percentages
      • Premigration percentage
      • Quotas
      • Stub file size
      • Minimum stream file size
      • Minimum partial file size
      • Maximum number of files
    • Managing a file system with multiple IBM Storage Protect servers
      • Enabling a file system to be managed by multiple IBM Storage Protect servers
      • Adding space management to a file system in a multiple-server environment
      • Removing IBM Storage Protect servers from a multiple-server environment
      • Limitations for multiple-server environments
      • Replicating nodes in a multiple-server environment
    • Deactivating space management
    • Reactivating space management
    • Removing space management
  • Migrating files
    • Migration types
    • File migration eligibility
    • File premigration
    • Automatic file migration
      • Candidate selection for automatic migration
      • Manually starting threshold migration
    • Selective file migration
      • Migrating selectively by using the dsmmigrate command
    • Migration of a single file system to two or more IBM Storage Protect servers
  • Backup and restore on space managed file systems
    • Archive and retrieve of migrated files by using the backup-archive client
      • Migration status after a migrated file is archived
      • Migration status after a migrated file is archived and retrieved
    • Back up before migration
    • Backing up migrated files
    • Restoring migrated files
    • Re-create stub files by using the dsmmigundelete command
    • Restoring space managed file systems
      • Restoring a file system that is backed up and migrated to the same IBM Storage Protect server
      • Restoring a file system after backup and migration operations used different IBM Storage Protect servers
      • Restoring a file system in an environment that is managed by multiple IBM Storage Protect servers
  • Recalling migrated files
    • Transparent recall processing
    • Selective recall processing
    • Normal recall mode
    • Partial file recall mode
    • Streaming recall mode
    • How HSM determines which recall mode to use
    • Setting the recall mode by using the dsmattr command
    • Optimized tape recall processing
      • List files for optimized tape recalls
      • Recalling files with optimization for tape
  • File system reconciliation
    • Automatic reconciliation
    • Manual reconciliation of file systems
    • Orphaned stub files
    • Configuring immediate reconciliation
    • Reconciling by using a GPFS policy
    • dsmmigundelete
    • dsmreconcile
    • dsmreconcileGPFS.pl
    • dsmmigundelete.pl
  • Space management daemons
    • The space monitor daemon
    • The recall daemon
    • The scout daemon
    • The watch daemon
    • Stopping the space management daemons
  • Scheduled HSM service
• Space management options, commands, and scripts
  • Options files reference
    • afmskipuncachedfiles
    • candidatesinterval
    • checkfororphans
    • checkthresholds
    • compression
    • defaultserver
    • errorlogname
    • errorprog
    • hsmdisableautomigdaemons
    • hsmdistributedrecall
    • hsmenableimmediatemigrate
    • hsmeventdestroy
    • hsmextobjidattr
    • hsmgroupedmigrate
    • hsmlogeventflags
    • hsmlogmax
    • hsmlogname
    • hsmlogretention
    • hsmlogsampleinterval
    • hsmmaxrecalltapedrives
    • hsmmigzeroblockfiles
    • hsmmultiserver
    • hsmoptimizedrecallonly
    • hsmrecallbufferalignment
    • hsmrecallbuffersize
    • hsmrpcport
    • inclexcl
    • maxcandprocs
    • maxmigrators
    • maxrecalldaemons
    • maxthresholdproc
    • migfileexpiration
    • migrateserver
    • minmigfilesize
    • minrecalldaemons
    • reconcileinterval
    • restoremigstate
    • skipmigrated
  • HSM client command reference
    • Standard option formats
    • Help for commands
    • Displaying file and file system information
    • Client return codes
    • HSM command summary
    • dmkilld
    • dsmattr
    • dsmautomig
    • dsmdf
    • dsmdu
    • dsmls
    • dsmmigfs add and update
    • dsmmigfs addmultiserver, querymultiserver, and removemultiserver
    • dsmmigfs control
    • dsmmigfs deactivate, reactivate, and remove
    • dsmmigfs globaldeactivate and globalreactivate
    • dsmmigfs help
    • dsmmigfs query
    • dsmmigfs rollback
    • dsmmigfs enablefailover, and disablefailover
    • dsmmigfs stop, start, and restart
    • dsmmigfs takeover
    • dsmmighelp
    • dsmmigquery
    • dsmmigrate
    • dsmmigundelete
    • dsmmonitord
    • dsmq
    • dsmrecall
    • dsmrecalld
    • dsmreconcile
    • dsmrm
    • dsmscoutd
    • dsmsetpw
    • dsmwatchd
  • HSM IBM Storage Scale clients Perl scripts
    • dsmMultiServerUpgrade.pl
    • dsmNextServername.pl
    • dsmreconcileGPFS.pl
    • dsmmigundelete.pl
    • dsmRemoveServer.pl
• Troubleshooting the space management client
  • Checking the time stamp of a daemon process-ID file
  • Creating a dump file
  • HSM entries in the syslog file
  • Client trace classes for the space management client
  • Enabling a Space Management client trace
  • Enabling daemon traces
    • Tracing the watch daemon
    • Tracing the recall daemon
    • Tracing the scout daemon
    • Tracing the monitor daemon
  • Log files to aid troubleshooting
  • Commands for displaying HSM information
  • Commands for displaying IBM Storage Scale information
  • Commands for displaying operating system information
  • Other tools for collecting information
  • HSM common problems and solutions
• Control files in the .SpaceMan directory
  • Space requirement for HSM control files
• ANS 0001-9999: IBM Storage Protect for Space Management client messages
• Accessibility
• Compatibility matrix
• PDF files
• Glossary