Managing The System; General; Info - Dell PowerVault NX3600 Command Line Interface Manual

Managing The System

You can manage your system wide settings from the system menu in the CLI. The management tasks include:
• viewing and setting general system information
• configuring the file system and network parameters
• setting the required protocols
• configuring authentication settings
The system menu lets you configure various system-wide properties. The menus under system are:
• general—You can view the system information, manage user and administrators accounts, and manage the
premium feature key licenses using the general menu .
• time-configuration—You can configure the system's time clock, determine how to automatically update time
using an NTP server, and configure the time zone for your system using the time-configuration menu.
Synchronizing the time clock is critical for the proper functioning of the system.
• monitoring-configuration—You can configure e-mail alerts and SNMP on your cluster. FluidFS uses e-mail as
the basis for alerting and remote support and allows SNMP-compatible management functions such as device
discovery, monitoring, and event generation.
• maintenance—You can start and stop your file system, manage the LUNs, setup backups for your file systems,
and maintain your controllers and NAS appliance components using the maintenance menu.
• protocols—You can enable Windows users to connect to the NAS cluster solution system using the CIFS
protocol. You can also enable Linux users to access the system using the CIFS protocol, and authenticate them
through NIS, LDAP or the NAS cluster solution local users using the protocols menu.
• authentication—You can configure the authentication authorities, such as Network Information Services (NIS),
Active Directory (AD) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). In addition, you can manage local
users and groups and map user names from Windows SIDs to UNIX UIDs using the authentication menu.
• networking—You can configure your system to best suit your network using the networking menu. You can
configure your management and client network Virtual IP addresses, manager various subnets on your cluster,
configure DNS for your cluster, and so on.

general

The menus under general are:
•

info

• background-operations
• administrators
• cluster-name
• licensing
info
The commands available under info are:
• system-version
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