essutils - Validation and stress test menu

ESS Installation and Deployment Toolkit (essutils) Validation and stress test menu

Synopsis

1. Help
2. Show storage details       >
3. ESS network stress test
4. ESS filesystem stress test
5. Back

Availability

Available with IBM Storage Scale System.

Description

This menu can be used to perform stress test of the ESS hardware after installation or upgrade.

Menu options

1. Help

Opens this manual page.

2. Show storage details

View detailed properties of the attached storage.

a) Show attached enclosures
b) Show attached enclosures that are not-ok
c) Show attached enclosure detail
d) Show firmware details of SAS adapters
e) Show firmware details of storage enclosures
f) Show firmware details of installed drives
g) Show pdisks that are not-ok

3. ESS network stress test

Perform network stress test. This task must only be run in a test environment as it can generate high load on the network.

$ ESSENV=TEST essnettest -N fab3a

For more information, see essnettest command.

Press c to change the EMS host name and I/O server nodes group name or I/O server node host name.

4. ESS filesystem stress test

Run file system stress test. Inspect and address any errors logged in /var/log/messages on the EMS node and /var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest on I/O server nodes.

$ essstress /gpfs/gpfs0 gssio1 gssio2

For more information, see essstress command.

Press c to change the file system name or the I/O server node host name.

5. Back

Exit to the previous menu.

Exit status

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

Security

You must have root authority to run essutils.