essutils main menu

ESS Installation and Deployment Toolkit (essutils) main menu

Synopsis

ESS INSTALLATION / DEPLOYMENT / SERVICE TOOLKIT
1. Help
2. SSR Tools                         
3. Validation checks                 
4. View/Collect service data (snaps) 
5. Advanced Tasks
6. Exit

Availability

Available with IBM Storage Scale System.

Description

The essutils main menu allows you to perform end-to-end operations for an ESS system.

Menu options

1. Help

Opens this manual page.

2. SSR Tools

Checks ESS for proper hardware installation, system configuration, and SAS connectivity. Using this menu item, users can perform the basic validation of the system once it arrives from manufacturing.

CHECK SYSTEM HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
1.  Help 
2.  ESS Legacy (p8)	
3.  ESS 3000 SSR checks   
4.  ESS 5000 SSR checks     
5.  ESS 3200 SSR checks     
6.  ESS 3500 SSR checks   
7.  ESS 6000 SSR checks                  
8.  p8 EMS checks	           
9.  p9 EMS or p9 Protocol checks  
10. Utility Node SSR Checks	 
11. Back

3. Validation check

Performs stress test of the ESS hardware after installation or upgrade. Users can perform operations such as:

See detailed properties of the attached storage.
Perform network stress test.
Run file system stress test.

4. View/Collect service data (snaps)

Collects various snaps of ESS system and GPFS such as:

VIEW/COLLECT MISC SERVICE DATA 
1. Help                      
2. Collect gpfs.snap    
3. Collect sos report 
4. Back

5. Advanced Tasks

Run advanced tasks by using the command prompt.

6. Exit

Exit to shell.

Exit status

0: Successful completion.
nonzero: A failure has occurred.

Security

You must have root authority to run essutils.