Pinnacle Systems ISIS - 4.1 Administrator’s Guide

Avid® ISIS
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Avid ISIS Administration Guide • 0175-30980-00 Rev. B• August 2012 • Created 8/29/12
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Contents

Using This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Who Should Use This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Accessing the Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 1 Working with the Avid ISIS Management Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Before Performing Administrative Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Opening the Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the Management Console Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
System Status Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
System Status Console Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Navigation Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Accessing Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Main Tools Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Organizing Display Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Moving Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Showing and Hiding Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Sorting Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Filtering the Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Updating Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Selecting Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using Context Menus to Perform Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Entering Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 2 Configuring the Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring Management Console Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Creating a Log of the Deletes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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Changing the Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Configuring External Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Configuring the Notification Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Starting, Stopping, and Configuring the Notification Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring Error Notification Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Configuring Contact Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 3 Managing Avid ISIS Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Managing Storage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Storage Manager Column List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Viewing Storage Manager Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Storage Manager Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Adding (Binding) Storage Managers to the ISIS File System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Removing (Unbinding) Storage Managers from the ISIS File System . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Clearing Network Degraded Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Upgrading ISIS 7000 Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Adding Storage Elements to the File System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Removing Storage Elements from the ISIS 7000 Shared Storage Network . . . . . . 50
Identifying the ISIS 7000 Storage Elements Prior to Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Preparing to Removing Storage Elements from the Avid ISIS Engine . . . . . . . 53
Removing Orphaned Storage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Managing Storage Elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Storage Element Column List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Storage Element Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Storage Element Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Storage Element Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Initiate Block Rectify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Managing ISIS 7000 Switch Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
ISIS 7000 Switch Blades Column List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Viewing ISIS 7000 Switch Blade Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Upgrading ISIS 7000 Switch Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Managing the Engine (ISIS 7000 and ISIS 5000 Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Engine Column List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Engine Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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Removing Engines from the Engine List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Upgrading ISIS 7000 Engine Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Upgrading Individual ISIS 7000 Engine Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Chapter 4 Avid ISIS Control Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
ISIS Launch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Opening ISIS Launch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Minimizing or Closing the ISIS Launch Pad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
ISIS Launch Pad Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Using Storage Manager Memory Log Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Avid ISIS System Director Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Opening the System Director Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Starting and Stopping the System Director Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Changing System Director Virtual Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Monitoring System Director Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
System Director Performance Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
System Director Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Resetting the System Director Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Using the ISIS System Director Memory Log Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Working with File System Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Reconfiguring the File System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Creating or Re-creating a New File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Monitoring Metadata Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Creating a Metadata Dump File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Resetting the Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Managing Active Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter 5 Managing Storage Groups and Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Managing Storage Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Storage Groups List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Viewing Storage Group Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Storage Groups on ISIS 7000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Storage Group and Chunk Sizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Storage Blades and Chunk Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
RAID 6 Workspace, Single ISB Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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RAID 6 Workspace, Dual ISB Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Mirrored Workspace, Single ISB Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Adding or Removing ISBs (Mirrored or RAID 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Adding an ISB to the File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Zone 1 Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Storage Groups on ISIS 5000 and ISIS 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Adding Storage Elements to Storage Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Adding New Storage Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Removing ISIS Storage Elements from Storage Groups
(ISIS 7000 and ISIS 5000 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Adding ISIS 7000 Storage Elements from Another Storage Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Adding ISIS 7000 Storage Managers Previously Used in Another Environment . . 101
Deleting Storage Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Minimum Free Storage Space Requirement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Managing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Workspaces List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Workspaces Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Workspace Creation (ISIS 7000 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Workspace Duplication (ISIS 7000 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Workspace Move (ISIS 7000 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Using the Workspace Size Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Viewing Workspace Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Adding New Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Duplicating Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Renaming Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Protecting ISIS 7000 Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Setting ISIS 7000 Workspace Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Moving ISIS 7000 Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Resizing Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Setting Event Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Deleting Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Managing Workspace Access Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Setting Workspace Access Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
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Redistributing ISIS 7000 Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Redistribution ISIS 7000 Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Symmetric Configuration Redistribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Automatic Redistribution on Disk Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Performing an ISIS 7000 Full Redistribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Using ISIS 7000 Advanced Redistribution Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Redistributing ISIS 5000 Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Redistribution ISIS 5000 Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Using ISIS 5000 Advanced Redistribution Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Redistributing ISIS 2000 Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Chapter 6 Managing Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Managing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
User Column List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Viewing User Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Adding Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Duplicating Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Modifying Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Deleting Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Disabling Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Managing User Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Viewing User Group Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Adding User Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Modifying User Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Deleting User Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Managing LDAP Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Opening LDAP Sync Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Using LDAP Sync Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Modifying the Account Synchronizer Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Synchronizing LDAP and ISIS Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Importing LDAP Users with Incorrectly Formatted LDAP UIDs . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Connecting and Disconnecting from the ISIS and LDAP servers . . . . . . . . . . 152
Managing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Devices Column List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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Viewing Device Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Adding Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Modifying Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Deleting Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Chapter 7 Managing Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Monitoring Client Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Opening the Bandwidth Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Bandwidth List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Scaling the Bandwidth List Graph Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Monitoring System Connection Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Opening the Connection Status Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Connection Status Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Disconnecting Clients from the Shared Storage Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Monitoring Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Reservations Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Revoking Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 8 System Monitoring and Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Hardware Monitoring Service (ISIS 5000 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
System Information Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
System and Administration Log Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Using the Administration Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Using the System Logs Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Viewing System Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Clearing System Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
ISIS Snapshots Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Creating, Viewing, and Deleting Snapshots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Working with Snapshot Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Profiler Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
System Status History Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
ISIS Toolbox Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Connection Analyzer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Log Aggregator Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Using the Log Aggregator Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
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Creating Aggregate Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Viewing Aggregate Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Disk Analyzer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Opening the Disk Analyzer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Updating the Disk Analyzer Tool Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Running Disk Analyzer Tool Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Saving Disk Analyzer Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Storage Manager Parameters Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Using the Storage Manager Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Retrieve Storage Manager Flag Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Switch Manager Tool (ISIS 7000 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Network Utilities Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Monitor Tool (ISIS 7000 Only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Accessing the Monitor Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Configuring the Monitor Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Viewing Information in the Monitor Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Displaying Rack Configurations in Separate Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Understanding the Monitor Tool Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Using System View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Using Status Details View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Using Blade Identification View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Using Temperatures View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Using Upgrades View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Agent Settings Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Monitoring Avid ISIS with SNMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Appendix A Avid ISIS Storage Manager Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Opening the Avid ISIS Storage Manager Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Understanding the Agent Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
System Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Managing Storage Manager Agent Profiles (ISIS 5000 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Creating New Storage Manager Agent Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Viewing Storage Manager Agent Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
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Deleting Agent Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Changing the Agent Administrator Password (ISIS 5000 and 2000 only) . . . . . . . 210
Statistics Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Tools Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Logging Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Advanced Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Storage Manager Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Using Storage Manager Agent Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Viewing Agent Event Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Clearing Agent Event Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Enabling and Disabling Storage Manager Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Saving Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Viewing and Deleting Saved Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Using the Log Viewer Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Appendix B Avid ISIS 7000 Switch Blade Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Understanding the Switch Agent Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
System Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Statistics Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Tools Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Logging Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Advanced Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Viewing System Information for Individual Chassis Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Setting Chassis Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Resetting an Avid ISIS Engine to Factory Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Switch Infrastructure Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Stacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Advanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Running Switch Infrastructure Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
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Switch Diagnostics Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Switch Blade Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Using Agent Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Viewing Agent Event Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Clearing Agent Event Logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Appendix C Avid ISIS SNMP MIB Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Appendix D Avid ISIS E-mail Notification List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Appendix E ISIS 5000 Media Drive LED Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
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Using This Guide

The Avid® ISIS® media network provides a high-performance distributed file system that contains high-capacity shared media storage for workgroups of connected Avid editing workstations. This user’s guide describes how to connect your client system to the media network, mount workspaces, and configure your system for best performance.
Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows operating systems.The majority of screen shots in this document were captured on a Windows system, but the information applies to both Windows and Mac OS X systems. Where differences exist, both Windows and Mac OS X screen shots are shown.
The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system
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might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Who Should Use This Guide

This user’s guide is intended for users who need to access workspaces on the Avid ISIS media network. You should have a basic understanding of how to use and manage the Windows operating system or the Mac OS X systems, and you should be familiar with basic workgroup and network concepts.
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and Mac OS® X

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
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A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.
A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.
A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

If You Need Help

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the order you
select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.
This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.
(Windows) or (Macintosh) This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified
operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.
Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface
items and keyboard sequences.
Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.
Courier Bold font
Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the
If You Need Help
If you are having trouble using your Avid product:
1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.
2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published.
New information would be found in the ReadMe file supplied on your Avid software kit located on the installation USB. Documentation is available as a PDF in the software kit and through the user interface.
You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To
view the online versions, visit the Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/US/support.
3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.
4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/US/support. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join online message-board discussions.
Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.
mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.
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Accessing the Online Documentation

Accessing the Online Documentation
The Avid ISIS online documentation contains all the product documentation in PDF format. You can access the documentation in the top-level AvidISISDocumentation folder on the Avid ISIS installer software kit.
The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system
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might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.
To access the online documentation from the software installer kit:
1. Insert the Avid ISIS installer USB into the USB port.
2. Navigate to the [drive]:\.AvidISISDocumentation folder, and double-click the PDF file for the document you want to view.

Avid Training Services

Avid makes lifelong learning, career advancement, and personal development easy and convenient. Avid understands that the knowledge you need to differentiate yourself is always changing, and Avid continually updates course content and offers new training delivery methods that accommodate your pressured and competitive work environment.
For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit www.avid.com/support and follow the Training links, or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843).
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1 Working with the Avid ISIS
Management Console
This section contains the following topics:
Before Performing Administrative Functions
Opening the Management Console
Using the Management Console Interface
Organizing Display Information
Filtering the Display
Updating Information
Selecting Items
Using Context Menus to Perform Actions
Entering Text
The Avid ISIS Management Console allows you to access administration functions from any system that has an Ethernet connection to the System Director, as well as from the System Director itself.
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Performing administrative functions on more than one Administration site at the same time can cause unexpected results.
When you access the Avid ISIS Management Console, the Login page opens, and the site prompts you to supply a user name and password to log in. If you type the wrong password, an error message appears and the Login dialog box reappears.
When you first install the Avid ISIS software, the login password is blank by default. To set a password for the administrator, follow the procedure described in “Changing the Administrator
Password” on page 35.
Standard ISIS client users can log in to the Management Console, but they will have limited access to the Management Console interface. They can also view certain information about the network through the Client Manager. For more information about the Client Manager, see the Avid ISIS Client Manager Help. The Avid ISIS Client Manager User’s Guide is also included in the AvidISISDocumentation folder in the software kit.

Before Performing Administrative Functions

Before Performing Administrative Functions
It is critical that clients unmount Workspaces when you do the following:
Stopping and restarting the System Director (unmount all Workspaces)
Changing users’ or user groups’ access (unmount only the affected Workspaces)
Renaming or deleting Workspaces (unmount only the affected Workspaces)
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If a client is using a Workspace when the ISIS system is taken offline, the connection to the Workspace is broken and data might be lost.

Opening the Management Console

The Avid ISIS Management Console runs within a web browser window. The following web browsers have been qualified for use with the Management Console:
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Internet Explorer, v7.x and newer
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Mozilla Firefox
Apple Macintosh OS X
Safari, v3.2 and newer
Mozilla Firefox, v3.6 and newer
To open the Management Console as Administrator:
1. Open your web browser.
2. In the address bar of your browser, type one of the following:
Address of the active ISIS 7000 System Director
https://[
, v3.6 and newer
System Director host name]:5015
IP Address of the active ISIS 7000 System Director
https://[
Address of the active ISIS 5000 System Director
http://[
IP Address of the active ISIS 5000 System Director
http://[
Address of the active ISIS 2000 System Director
http://[
System Director IP address]:5015
System Director host name
System Director IP address
System Director host name
]
]
]
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IP Address of the active ISIS 2000 System Director
http://[
System Director IP address
]
The active System Director host name is one of the following:
- The System Director Windows host name.
- A host name which has been assigned to the active System Director on your network
DNS server(s).
Check with your network administrator if you are unsure of which System Director name to use.
When you enter the ISIS 7000 System Director address, if any site certification warnings open, click Yes to accept the certificate. If you are not sure about the security requirements of your shared storage network, see your network administrator.
The Login dialog box for the ISIS Management Console opens. The “Username” field is automatically populated with the Administrator username.
3. Type your password.
For information on changing the administrative password, see “Changing the Administrator
Password” on page 35.
4. Click the Login button (arrow icon), or press Enter.
The Avid ISIS Home page opens.
To log out of the ISIS Management Console:
t Click the Logout link, located in the upper right corner of the screen.
Using the Management Console Interface
This section contains the following topics:
Navigation Toolbar
System Status Console
Accessing Help
Main Tools Panel
The ISIS Management Console, which you can access on the System Director or on any Ethernet-attached client, has a user interface where controls are grouped by function and are displayed by clicking the appropriate icons.
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Using the Management Console Interface
The following illustration is of the ISIS 7000 Management Console. It includes some features not
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available in the ISIS 5000 and ISIS 2000. Non-Administrator users will see a subset of the tools available to Administrators, depending on access privileges.
1 System Status panel — Provides a snap shot view of several aspects of the Avid ISIS system. See
“System Status Console” on page 20
2 Navigation toolbar — Access Management Console tools and bread crumb navigation. See
“Navigation Toolbar” on page 24
3 Main tools panel — Click to go to the respective tool pages. See “Main Tools Panel” on page 25
4 Help link — provides links to various ISIS online documents. See “Accessing Help” on page 24
5 Logout link — Ends the Management Console session and logs the user out of the system. See
“Opening the Management Console” on page 18

System Status Console

The System Status Console, located on the left side of the Avid ISIS Management Console, contains several components that give you a snapshot view of the Avid ISIS system. These allow you to access additional information about your system and to perform certain administrative tasks, such as monitoring and logging.
The System Status Console is available from the Login window, even if you are not logged in to
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the Management Console, but you have to log in to follow links from the tool bar screens, such as the log files.
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Depending on your ISIS system and software version, the System Status Console is similar to one
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of these images.
1 Current system status panel — error/warning/info/upgrade status LEDs will be lit to indicate the
presence of system events, along with a counter indicating the current number of each type of event
2 Status retrieval panel — The Management Console periodically retrieves system status information.
The panel displays the results and the time stamp of the retrieval operation.
3 Status event history panel — displays which type of system events have occurred since the
System Director was started, along with the date and time of the first logged event. Clicking this panel opens the System Status History tool. For more information, see “System Status History Page”
on page 176
4 Storage capacity panel — displays the total capacity of all bound Storage Elements, capacity
allocated to Workspaces, and the amount of capacity used by data
5 System Status Console panels — click the panel headings to display the system information panel.
For more information, see “System Status Console Panels” on page 22
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System Status Console Panels

The System Status Console contains several panels that provide information about different areas of Avid ISIS operation. Each panel can be expanded and collapsed by clicking on the panel title.
The Status panel provides a quick summary of the System Director status. If an event in the system log triggers a status to appear, a link is provided to the System Logs tool.
For more information about using the System Logs tool, see “Using the System Logs Page” on
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page 171.
The System panel provides a summary of hardware, software, and networking information.
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The Performance panel provides a summary of the following information:
Messages Per Second
Number of open files
The Bandwidth panel displays “Megabytes per second,” information on total and per-client bandwidth.
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Navigation Toolbar

The navigation toolbar provides several items to help you navigate through the Management Console interface.
1 Home link—You can click this link from any page to return to the Management Console Home
screen
2 Current tool heading—Indicates the tool you are currently using and its associated icon
3 Related links section—Management Console tools that are related to the one you are currently using
are provided when relevant

Accessing Help

The Help menu, located in the upper right-hand corner of the Management Console window, provides links to the complete set of Avid ISIS online PDF documents.
Using the Management Console Interface
PDF documents can open in an external application or browser, depending on your
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configuration. An Administration Guide HTML Help is only available from the System Director Control Panel and requires Internet Explorer. The Help does not work properly in other browsers.
To access the Help menu:
1. Move the mouse cursor over the Help menu text.
The Help pop-up menu opens.
2. (Option) Click the Help menu text to open the Avid ISIS online document.
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Main Tools Panel

The ISIS Management Console main panel is divided into the following sections:
The System section, which contains the following tools:
Tool Description
Workspaces View details of, create, delete, duplicate, or change capacity of any
Users View details of, create, delete, duplicate, or modify Workspace access of any
Groups View details of, create, duplicate, modify Workspace access of, or assign
Devices View details of, create, delete, or modify descriptions of any device; see
Installers Download installers for Avid ISIS Client Manager, Flash, and other software.
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Workspace; see “Managing Workspaces” on page 103 for more information.
User; see “Managing Users” on page 131 for more information.
User access to any User Group; see “Managing User Groups” on page 139 for more information.
“Managing Devices” on page 153 for more information.
Engines (7000 and 5000 only)
Switch Blades (7000 only)
Storage Managers View details of, bind, or unbind any Storage Manager; for more information,
Storage Elements View details and issue commands to any Storage Element; for more
Storage Groups View details of, create, delete, or modify Storage Elements of any Storage
View details of Engines, reported serial number, Status Time, Uptime; for more information, see “Managing Storage Managers” on page 40.
View switch IP addresses, Upgrade Switches, or open the switch Agent pages; for more information, see “Understanding the Switch Agent
Interface” on page 221.
see “Managing Storage Managers” on page 40.
information, see “Managing Storage Elements” on page 54.
Group; for more information, see “Managing Storage Groups” on page 89.
The Connectivity section, which contains the following tools:
Tool Description
Connection Status View or disconnect any connected client; for more information, see
“Monitoring System Connection Status” on page 161.
Bandwidth View read and write bandwidth of any connected client; for more
information, see “Monitoring Client Bandwidth” on page 158.
Reservations View and revoke any current bandwidth reservation; for more information,
see “Monitoring Reservations” on page 163.
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The Tools section, which contains the following tools:
Tool Description
System Status History View historical system status information; for more information, see “System
Status History Page” on page 176.
ISIS Toolbox Connection Analyzer, Log Aggregator, and Disk Analyzer, Storage Manager
Parameters, Switch Manager (ISIS 7000 only) and starts a Java tool; for more information, see “ISIS Toolbox Page” on page 176.
LDAP Sync Tool Synchronize User information with your LDAP server; for more information,
see “Managing LDAP Accounts” on page 144.
Network Utilities Allows you to retrieve a detailed look at the connected network, or run a ping
or traceroute; for more information, see “Network Utilities Page” on
page 191.
Monitor Tool (ISIS 7000 only)
Allows you to view information about the network hardware components in a graphical display such as IP address, software version, and temperature; for more information, see “Monitor Tool (ISIS 7000 Only)” on page 191.
The Logging section, which contains the following tools:
Tool Description
System Information Get complete system information: Memory stats, host information, running
processes, and Agent statistics, all on one screen; for more information, see
“System Information Page” on page 167.
System Logs View all system messages, info, warnings, and errors at the application,
system, and security levels; for more information, see “Using the System
Logs Page” on page 171.
Administration Logs View current and archived Management Console logs; for more information,
see “Using the Administration Logs” on page 170.
ISIS Snapshots Create a snapshot of the ISIS system for viewing or downloading; for more
information, see “ISIS Snapshots Page” on page 172.
Profiler Create and view profiles of the System Director; for more information, see
“ISIS Snapshots Page” on page 172.
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Organizing Display Information

The Advanced section, which contains the following tools:
Tool Description
Preferences Change and save bandwidth, LCT threshold, device creation, and disk errors
preferences; for more information, see “Configuring Management Console
Preferences” on page 33.
External Authentication
Notification Service Configure email notification on specific system events; for more information,
Agent Settings Modify agent configuration options and trace settings; for more information,
Administrator Password
Configure external authentication servers; for more information, see
“Configuring External Authentication” on page 36.
see “Configuring the Notification Service” on page 37.
see “Agent Settings Page” on page 201.
Change the Management Console Administrator password; for more information, see “Changing the Administrator Password” on page 35.
Organizing Display Information
This section contains the following topics:
“Moving Columns” on page 27
“Showing and Hiding Columns” on page 27
“Sorting Information” on page 28
You can customize the Main display panel for any option by moving and hiding columns, and by sorting and filtering information.

Moving Columns

To move a column in the Main display panel:
t Click and drag any column to the position you want, and release the mouse button.
The column appears in the new position, and columns to the right are moved to make room.

Showing and Hiding Columns

When you open a Management Console tool (for example, the Storage Elements tool), the Main display panel lists items in default columns. Depending on the option selected, there might be other headings available to view. You can select individual or multiple column headings to be displayed or hidden.
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To show or hide columns:
t Select one of the options, right-click in the column heading row and select a heading you
want to show or hide.
Displayed column headings are marked by a bullet symbol (•). You cannot hide the first column on the left of the Main display panel (usually the Name column).

Sorting Information

The ISIS Management Console interface allows you to sort information listed in the Main display panel, or in the Details panel. Sorting the information in columns arranges items in either numerical or alphabetical order. You can also perform a multilevel sort of the displayed information.
Organizing Display Information
To sort information:
t Click the column heading for the column you want to sort.
The information is sorted in ascending order. To reverse the sort order, click the column heading again.
To perform a multilevel sort:
1. Click the column heading for the first column you want to sort.
The items in the column are sorted in ascending order.
2. Click a second column.
The items in the second column are sorted in ascending order. The items in the first column maintain their sort order, but with a lower priority than the second sort.
3. (Option) Click multiple columns to add levels to the sort. To cancel a multilevel sort, click a column heading that has already been sorted.
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Filtering the Display

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You can limit the items listed in the Main display panel by setting Filter parameters at the bottom of the Management Console window. Filtering the display allows you to focus on only those items that you want to monitor. You can restore all items to the display by clearing the Filter parameters.
1 Category menu—Select the category to filter
2 “not” operator—Select to exclude items matching the filter rules from the search results
3 Condition menu—Select the filter condition
4 Search term field—Type the text or value to filter
5 Filter button—Perform the filter operation
Filtering the Display
6 Clear button—Clear the filter settings
7 Filter results counter—Displays the number of filtered results on the page, and in total
You cannot filter the display for the Bandwidth, Connection Status, and Reservation options.
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To filter the display:
1. Select a category from the Category menu.
The Category menu lists all of the column headings available for the selected Command menu option.
2. (Option) Select “not” to exclude the items matching the filter rules from the search results.
3. Click the Condition menu and select the filter condition you want to use.
4. In the Filter text box, type the text or value you want to use to filter the display.
5. Click Filter.
The Main display panel updates to display the filtered results. The Filter panel displays the number of filtered items displayed and the total number of items available for display.
To restore all items to the display:
t Click Clear.
The Main display panel updates to display all items.
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Updating Information

You can update onscreen information to reflect recent system changes by clicking the Refresh button. You can also use Auto refresh to automatically refresh information at timed intervals, and prevent your session from timing out.
This setting persists between Management Console sessions, but not browser sessions. If you
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close the browser application, Auto refresh will revert to the default (disabled) setting.
To enable Auto refresh:
t Select the check box next to the Refresh button.
Auto refresh mode is enabled, and a message is displayed.
While Auto refresh mode is enabled, other functions such as add, delete, and details are not
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To disable Auto refresh:
Updating Information
t Deselect the check box next to the Refresh button.
Auto refresh mode is disabled, and the confirmation message closes.

Selecting Items

You can select multiple items in most Management Console tool windows. The methods for selecting more than one item in a list are similar to those used in Windows Explorer or the Macintosh Finder.
The following table summarizes the methods for selecting items and performing actions.
Actions Selection Method
To select an item Single click the item.
To select multiple, non-contiguous items Ctrl+click each item you want to select.
To select multiple, contiguous items Click the first item, then Shift+click on the last item.
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