Some Isilon notes

Isilon, Isilon, how do you work… no one really knows. However here are a few useful, seemly undocumented commands you can run when ssh’d into a node:

Finding large files

fstat is a bit like lsof in the Linux world, but exists on FreeBSD:

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fstat | sort -k 8 -n -r | more

Finding serial number

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isi config
quit

gathering and uploading info, usually required for a support call

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isi_info_gather

Show status/alert info

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isi status
isi alerts

Do something on all cluster nodes

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isi_for_array 'df -h'

3 Comments

  1. Alessandro says:

    Hello,

    the correct command to gather and upload cluster info is “isi_gather_info”.

    Best,

    Alessandro

  2. higkoo says:

    You could exec this command:
    isi_for_array “echo quit|isi config|grep ‘serial number'”

  3. Khurram says:

    Easiest way to query the serial numbers that I know of is:

    isi_for_array isi_hw_status | grep SerNo

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