Gather Information About The System With Egatherer And Dynamic; System Analysis - IBM TotalStorage DS300 Best Practices Manual

section will help you to collect information about the current configuration and the
current status. The basic information gathering consists of the following steps:

4.15.1, "Gather information about the system with eGatherer and Dynamic

System Analysis" on page 192
4.15.2, "LED status of the Total Storage DS300 and DS400 and EXP400" on
page 196
4.15.3, "Network cabling diagram" on page 196
4.15.4, "IBM ServeRAID Manager support archive" on page 196
4.15.5, "IBM ServeRAID Manager log files" on page 203
4.15.6, "Log files of the iSCSI SANsurfer Management software" on page 204
4.15.7, "Log files of the IBM FAStT Management Suite Java (MSJ)" on page 204
4.15.1 Gather information about the system with eGatherer and
Dynamic System Analysis
eGatherer and Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) are utilities to gather information
about the host operating system. DSA is supported only on Microsoft Windows,
but eGatherer is supported as well on Linux. Both utilities can be freely
downloaded from the IBM Support site.
eGatherer
Download the eGatherer from the listed URL below and store the file on the host
attached to a IBM TotalStorage DS300 or IBM TotalStorage DS400 and the
system used as Management Station.
Link for eGatherer:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4R5VKC
Execute eGatherer with administrative rights direct on the server. In Microsoft
Windows do not use a Terminal Server Session to execute the eGatherer utility.
A file *.eg2 will be created in the same directory from which you start eGatherer.
Dynamic System Analysis
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) is available in two different versions. First
version, the DSA Portable Edition, can be executed on a system without installing
the utility. This is useful for a single time usage. The second version, the DSA
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