If you’ve ever tried to run modern versions of ssh, rsync, or other essential tools on an old Linux system, you know the pain. OpenSSL errors, OpenSSL support, or even library dependency hell. The Problem With Old Linux Systems Sometimes, you’re stuck with an old Linux system that you can’t update, and you need these…
Let’s say you have old shelves of either EMC or NetApp with SAS or SATA disks in them. And let’s say you want to connect them via FC to a Linux machine and have some nice ZFS machine/cluster, or whatever else. There are few things to know, and to attend in order for it to…
I was wandering for a long while about the connection between NetApp’s LUN Serial and the identifier the host sees, aka “Word 83”. There was an obvious connection, but I figured it out only today. The LUN Serial is an ASCII representation of the hexadecimal Word 83, or, to be exact, the last 22 hex…
This post will describe the process of placing SSH keys using the internal ‘systemshell’ command of NetApp. As always – when doing something which the vendor did not intend you to do, do it very carefully. This data was obtained from NetApp forums, and while I do not have the original post to link (I…
When using ‘disk show -v’ on a NetApp filer version 7.3.x, following replacement or addition of disk(s), you might see the above mentioned message. It is caused by incorrect disk label – of OnTap version 8, on an OnTap version 7.3.x system. The system cannot handle the incorrect label, and thus – ignores the disk….
I have been using the excellent template and scripts from this forum post, however, when the NetApp device is loaded with LUNs and volumes, the script will cause the Cacti to timeout, and during that time, consume CPU. The original cause of this problem was a workaround to some NetApp Perl API bug the original…
