Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide

 

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The syncwait utility allows engineers to monitor the progress of the disk mirroring 
process. Follow these instructions to run the syncwait utility. 
1  Open another xterm window on the DNCS. 
2  Type the following command and press Enter. The system displays a message 

stating the percentage of the mirror-synchronization process that is complete. 

3  When the system displays the following message, the disk mirroring process is 

complete; type n (for no) and then press Enter. The syncwait utility exits.  

 

 

4  Type q and then press Enter to exit from the monitoring process. 
5  Type the following command and press Enter. The system displays the status of 

all of the metadevices on the DNCS. 

Note:  Press the Spacebar, if necessary, to page through all of the output. 

6  Examine the output from the metastat command for the following two 

conditions, and then go to step 7: 

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The designation ok appears in the State column next to each metadevice. 

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No Hot Spare indicates In Use. 

7  Are both of the conditions described in step 6 true? 

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If yes (to both conditions), go to step 8; disk mirroring was successfully 
enabled. 

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If no (to either or both conditions), call Cisco Services for help in resolving 
the issues with disk mirroring. 

8  In the xterm window from which you ran the mirrstate –a command, type eject  

cdrom and then press Enter. The system ejects the DBDS Maintenance CD. 

9  Type exit and then press Enter to close the xterm window.