Dell PowerVault MD3820f - Manual (Page 238)

Capturing The State Information
Use the Capture State Information option to capture information about the current state of your storage
array and save the captured information to a text file. You can then send the captured information to your
Technical Support representative for analysis.
CAUTION: Potential to cause an unresponsive storage array – The Capture State option can
cause a storage array to become unresponsive to both the host and the storage management
station. Use this option only under the guidance of your Technical Support representative.
1. From the AMW, select Monitor → Health → Capture State Information.
2. Read the information in the Confirm State Capture dialog, and type yes to continue.
3. In the Specify filename text box, enter a name for the file to be saved, or browse to a previously
saved file if you want to overwrite an existing file.
Use the convention filename.dmp for the name of the file. The suffix .dmp is added to the file
automatically if you do not specify a suffix for the file.
4. Click Start.
NOTE: Each test shows a status of Executing while it is in progress. The test then shows
Completed when it successfully finishes. If any of the tests cannot be completed, a Failed status
is displayed in the Execution summary window.
5. Monitor the progress and completion status of all of the tests. When they finish, click OK to close the
State Capture dialog.
Clicking Cancel stops the state capture process, and any remaining tests do not complete. Any test
information that has been generated to that point is saved to the state capture file.
NOTE: See the online help topics for more information on troubleshooting, and recovering
from failures.
SMrepassist Utility
SMrepassist (replication assistance) is a host-based utility for Windows platforms. This utility is installed
with MD Storage Manager. Use this utility before and after you create a virtual disk copy on a Windows
operating system to ensure that all the memory-resident data for file systems on the target virtual disk is
flushed and that the driver recognizes signatures and file system partitions. You can also use this utility to
resolve duplicate signature problems for snapshot virtual disks.
From a command prompt window on a host running Windows, navigate to: C:\Program Files\Dell\MD
Storage Manager\util and run the following command:
SMrepassist -f <filesystem-identifier>
Where, -f flushes all the memory-resident data for the file system indicated by <filesystem-identifier>,
and <filesystem-identifier>, specifies a unique file system in the following syntax: drive-
letter:<mount-point-path>
The file system identifier may consist of only a drive letter, as in the following example:
SMrepassist -f E:
NOTE: In Windows, the mount point path is a drive letter.
An error message is displayed in the command line when the utility cannot distinguish between the
following:
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