Technical information
GALAXY® AUROURA LS CONFIGURATION AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION GUIDE
54 Section 3 Management
3.1.6 CONFIG Details
This screen is used to perform a number of utility functions. The top table of functions refers to
the configuration metadata itself. The configuration information contains every piece of
information about the array: RAID information, LUN information, port information, file
information, sensor information, slot information, license information, parameter information,
and drive information. It is stored in two places: In a file on the boot drive of the array, and also
on the data drives themselves.
For added security, you can use the first function Save Current Config As
to make your own
backup of the configuration. Simply left-click in the text area
to the right of Save Current Config
As, enter the file/pathname that you would like to save to, then left-click on the Save Current
Config As button.
The next item in the Configurations table is Reload Configuration - this is used to either reload
the "regular/current" configuration into RAM, or to load one that you saved previously. Simply
select the configuration
that you want to load/reload with the drop-down, then left-click on the
Reload Configuration
button. This is also used if you want to reload a configuration that was
recovered from a drive - the configuration file recovered will show up as recslot{slot #}.xml.
CAUTION: Note that reloading the configuration unloads and reloads all of the
drivers associated with the Aurora LS RAID – this will disconnect all clients!
As mentioned earlier, the configuration is also written to the data drives - if you manually want
to update the configuration information recorded on the drives, simply left-click on the Record
Current Configuration to All Drives button. This only takes a few seconds.
The last item in the Configurations table is the option to recover the configuration information
from a single drive to a file. Select the slot number
of the drive that you would like to recover
the configuration from with the drop-down on the right, then left-click on the Recover
Configuration from Drive to File button. The file will be saved as recslot{slot #}.xml.
The second table has to do with a Trace File: