Viewing xsan logs, Checking volume clients – Apple Xsan 1.1 User Manual
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Chapter 6
Monitoring SAN Status
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Viewing Xsan Logs
You can use Xsan Admin to view diagnostic and informational messages that Xsan has
written to a computer’s system and console logs.
To view the system logs:
m
Open Xsan Admin, select a SAN in the SAN Components list, and click Logs. Use the
Show pop-up menu to change logs and the On pop-up menu to switch to another
computer. To find entries containing specific text, type the text in the Filter field and
press Return.
To view volume logs:
m
Open Xsan Admin, select a volume in the SAN Components list, and click Logs.
From the Command Line
To see the log for a particular volume from the command line, look at the file
/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/data/volume/log/cvlog
where
volume
is the name of the volume.
Checking Volume Clients
You can use Xsan Admin to see a summary of how many clients are using a volume or
a complete list of those clients.
To see the clients that are using a volume:
m
Open Xsan Admin, select the volume in the SAN Components list, and click Clients.
To see how many clients have a volume mounted:
m
Open Xsan Admin, select the volume in the SAN Components list, and click Overview.
From the Command Line
You can also use the
cvadmin who
command in Terminal to see a list of volume clients.
For more information, see the
cvadmin