About the dr series system maintenance mode, About the dr series maintenance mode – Dell PowerVault DR2000v User Manual

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All automatic diagnostic collection requests are queued and executed sequentially.

The DR Series system GUI provides options to display existing diagnostics logs, generate new diagnostics logs,

download and save copies of existing diagnostics logs, or delete existing diagnostics logs. For more information, see

Diagnostics Page and Options

and

About the Diagnostics Service

.

The DR Series system CLI also provides the means for managing, generating, or downloading the diagnostics log

files. For more information, see the

Dell DR Series System Command Line Reference Guide

.

About the DR Series System Maintenance Mode

In general, the DR Series system enters the Maintenance mode whenever the file system has encountered an issue that
prevents it from operating normally.

NOTE: You can use the Reason code information available in the Maintenance mode to call Dell Support. All
maintenance must be conducted using the DR Series systems Command Line Interface.

When in its Maintenance mode, the filesystem is in a read-only state, and the system runs the following maintenance-
based operations:

NOTE: Whenever the DR Series systems enters or exits from the Maintenance mode state, all communication via
protocols is lost.

Runs an internal filesystem check.

Generates a filesystem status report (if the filesystem check finds no issues, the DR Series system switches back to

Operational mode without user intervention).

If the filesystem check finds issues, you can choose to make repairs (using Confirm Repair Filesystem) or ignore the
detected issue (using Skip Repair Filesystem), at which point the system switches back to Operational mode.
The Maintenance mode process displays a number of stages, indicated on the Maintenance Mode progress bar, which
include:

Preparing for Filesystem Check

Scan in Progress

Completed Generating Report

NOTE: If the Filesystem Check detects any repairable files, it generates a Repair Report that identifies these

reported files. The Maintenance Mode progress bar halts at the Completed Generating Repair stage, and

remains in Maintenance mode until you click Confirm Repair Filesystem. The DR Series system does not

advance to the Switching to Operation Mode stage until the filesystem repair is completed.

Switching to Operational Mode

Operational Mode (Normal State)

The Maintenance Mode page provides the following information:

Maintenance Mode Progress bar:

– Displays the five stages of Maintenance mode
– Updates the progress bar as each stage completes

NOTE: If an alert displays above the Maintenance Mode progress bar, this indicates that the filesystem

check has completed, and it has generated a report on the repairable files (which are displayed in the

Repair Report pane under the Maintenance Mode progress bar). To repair all of the reported files listed in

the Repair Report, you must click Confirm Repair Filesystem.

Repair Report:

– Displays a list of repairable filesystem files that were detected in the Filesystem Check.

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