In addition to providing metadata to clients and managing locks, metadata servers perform a wide variety of other tasks. They process requests issued by administrators to create and manage filesets, storage pools, volumes, and policy sets, and they enforce the policies defined by administrators to place files in appropriate storage pools and ensure that capacity quotas established for filesets and storage pools are not exceeded.
You can perform the following metadata server tasks:
Remotely accessing the master console
This task describes how to remotely access the master console.Accessing the administrative server through a browser
This task describes how to access the administrative server through a browser from the master console (or from any computer that is on the same LAN as the SAN File System cluster.Adding a metadata server to the cluster
This topic describes how to add a metadata server to the cluster.Changing the master metadata server
This topic describes how to change which server in the SAN File System cluster serves as the master.Changing metadata server hostname
This topic describes how to change the hostname of a metadata server in the /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hosts configuration files after the initial setup and configuration of the SAN File System.Changing metadata server IP address
This topic describes how to change the IP address for a metadata server.Checking metadata
This topic describes how to check and repair metadata.Removing a metadata server from the cluster
This topic describes how to remove a metadata server from the cluster.Starting the metadata server restart service
This topic describes how to enable the metadata server restart service.Stopping the metadata check
This topic describes how to stop the metadata-check process.Stopping the metadata server restart service
This topic describes how to disable the metadata server restart service.Tuning the metadata server restart service
This topic describes how to set metadata server restart service tuning options such as retry limits, probe intervals, and liveness test timeouts.Viewing metadata server details
This topic describes how to view metadata server details such as state, server role, boot times, and software version. These details also include networking information such as port, IP address and protocol information.Viewing metadata server restart service statistics
This topic describes how to view metadata server restart service statistics, which includes test details and information about metadata server probes..Viewing metadata server restart service tuning details
This topic describes how to view metadata server restart service tuning details such as retry limits, probe intervals, and liveness test timeouts.Removing down-level metadata server software
This topic describes how to remove down-level software from the metadata server.
Parent topic: Managing