drivedumptool_UNIX

Scope
Intended Audience
All X
CommVault Internal  
CE/System Test  
Development  

Release
  • 7.0.0

Description
Utility drivedumptool is designed to be called directly from Galaxy services when a drivedump is available. Drivedump is generated by certain types of drives such as IBM ULTRIUM (types 1, 2 and 3) when certain errors occur.

Although designed to be called from Galaxy, this tool may be invoked directly to obtain a drive dump even when a drive dump is not present. In this case, the drive is forced to generate a drive dump.

Follows these steps:

  1. Copy drivedumptool to the Unix MediaAgent system's Base folder.
  2. Make sure that the MediaAgent system contains the dependent updates that are required to support this tool.

Usage
drivedumptool mandates the following options:

-a <accesspath>

where accesspath is of the form scsidev@adapter:bus.target.lun (e.g.,  drive connected adapter fscsi0, target 68835 and lun 1 can be addressed as scsidev@fscsi0:0.68835.1.

-j <jobid>

When called manually, set jobid to an arbitrary value that is greater than 0

In addition, drivedumptool takes an optional argument -f, which forces a drive dump when one is not present

Logging

This tool does not print any messages to the screen. All logging goes to the log file drivedumptool.log in the galaxy logs directory. If this tool is run manually, please make sure that the log file drivedumptool.log is checked for any errors.

Examples

drivedumptool

logs usages of this tool

drivedumptool -a scsidev@adapter:bus.target.lun -j 1

obtains drive dump from the specified device if present

drivedumptool -f -a scsidev@adapter:bus.target.lun -j 1

forces a drive dump even if not present

History
Revision Date Description
Revision 1 January 1, 2007 Initial revision.

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