There are two methods for managing SAN File System: an administrative command-line interface and a graphical user interface, called the SAN File System console. You can access the administrative command-line interface by either directly logging in to an engine or using a Secure Shell (SSH) client to remotely connect to the engine. You can access the SAN File System console using a Web browser.
SAN File System provides you with different levels of user access to perform administrative operations. The users and user roles are defined on your LDAP server. Therefore, you cannot access the SAN File System without a valid user ID that is defined in the LDAP server.
The SAN File System console allows you to control and monitor SAN File System from a Web-based graphical user interface. For ease of monitoring, it provides a system overview that illustrates the status of the various SAN File System components. In addition, the SAN File System console provides inline messaging that assists with system configuration, performance tuning and troubleshooting tasks.
The SAN File System console also contains the Help Assistant, which provides panel-level help information as well as links to related topics in the SAN File System Information Center. The Information Center serves as an online, searchable repository for all of the product documentation.
You can use the administrative command-line interface to administer all aspects of SAN File System, including setting up and managing storage pools, volumes, and filesets. For security reasons, administrative command-line interface runs only on the engines in your cluster.
You can use the administrative command-line interface interactively using the sfscli utility. You can also embed administrative commands in scripts.
To access sfscli, you must log in to an engine that hosts any metadata server. The following figure illustrates how you access sfscli.
SAN File System provides a set of commands that are used to set up SAN File System clients and to perform planning, migration, and verification tasks for data. These commands are issued from the client machines.
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