Command Reference Guide

2.1 NAME 3

The command is used to perform these FSE administrator’s tasks:

• start up or shut down FSE processes to enable or cease the FSE system (FSE

server, FSE client) operation,

• restart FSE (server, client) processes in case of a trouble,

• print status information for the conﬁguration–independent FSE processes

(FSE daemons) running on FSE system (FSE server, FSE client),

• prepare the FSE system for the restore process,

• on Windows systems, conﬁgure mount points for HSM ﬁle systems, mount

or unmount HSM ﬁle systems,

• on Windows systems, dismount a newly formatted volume, enable or dis-

able Limited Access Mode for a particular HSM ﬁle system.

FSE PROCESSES Core FSE components, as for fse command, are run-

ning FSE processes, that are responsible for proper FSE operation. There are

two groups of FSE processes: conﬁguration–independent and conﬁguration–

dependent. The conﬁguration–independent FSE processes, also called FSE dae-

mons, allow FSE software to operate and intercommunicate. The conﬁguration–

dependent FSE processes control a single conﬁgured FSE resource. FSE admin-

istrator may conﬁgure more than one resource of the same kind, so there can be

several FSE processes of the same kind running simultaneously. Currently, the

only resources that are controlled by their own processes are FSE partition and

FSE library.

STAND–ALONE AND DISTRIBUTED FSE SYSTEMS It is possible to ei-

ther set up an FSE system on a stand–alone machine or distribute its functionality

across one FSE server and an arbitrary number of FSE clients. In ﬁrst case, all

FSE processes are running on the same system, in the other some of them only

on FSE server as FSE server processes (marked with S character), some only on

each FSE client as FSE client processes (marked with C character) and some on

both/all (marked with S+C characters).

Conﬁguration–independent FSE processes – FSE daemons are:

File System Extender 3.2 Command Line Reference