Metatool Task Summary

The information in this section, organized by DiskSuite feature, serves as a quick reference for all DiskSuite tasks. Command line equivalents are given for each task. For each of these commands, man pages should be consulted for correct syntax.
Feature/Task Metatool Menu or Action Command
Concatenations
Checking status

Object >> Info

metastat
Creating Edit >> Create >> Concat/Stripe metainit
Expanding Drag an unused slice to the object metattach
Recreating after slice failure Delete and recreate metadevice metaclear,
metainit
Removing Edit >> Delete metaclear
Configurations
Renaming a metadevice

Use the Info window

metarename
Restoring uncommitted configuration File >> Restore From File
Reversing all uncommitted operations Edit >> Undo All
Reversing an uncommitted operation Edit >> Undo Last
Saving uncommitted configuration File >> Save To File
Metatool
Collapsing an object

Object >> Collapse

Committing an object Object >> Commit metainit
Configuration Log, viewing Browse >> Configuration Log
Deleting an object Edit >> Delete metaclear
Disks, viewing Browse >> Disk View
Displaying entire object Object >> Expand
Duplicating an object Edit >> Duplicate
Evaluating an object Object >> Evaluate
Exiting File >> Exit
Finding metadevices Browse >> Find
Metadevices, viewing Browse >> Metadevices
Object information Object >> Info metastat
Problems, viewing Browse >> Problem List
Putting away an object Object >> Put Away
Reorganizing objects on the canvas Edit >> Cleanup Canvas
Slices, viewing Browse >> Slices prtvtoc,
format
Hot Spare Pool(hsp)
Adding a slice to a hsp

Drag an available slice to the hot
spare pool object

metahs
Associating a hsp Drag a hsp object onto
submirror/RAID5 object
metaparam
Changing the associated hsp Drag replacement hsp object onto submirror/RAID5 object metaparam
Checking status Object >> Info metahs
Creating hsp Edit >> Create >> Spare Pool metainit
Enabling a hot spare Use the Hot Spare Pool Info window metahs
Removing a hot spare Use the Hot Spare Pool Info Window metahs
Removing a hsp Edit >> Delete metaparam,
metahs
Replacing a component Drag a replacement slice to the Hot Spare Pool object metahs
Viewing a hsp Browse >> Hot Spare Pool metastat
Mirrors
Attaching a submirror

Drag a submirror to a Mirror
object

metattach
Changing options Use the Mirror Info window metaparam
Checking status Object >> Info metastat
Creating Edit >> Create >> Mirror metainit
Detaching a submirror Use the Mirror Info window metadetach
Expanding Drag unused slices to the
submirrors
metattach,
growfs
Placing a submirror offline/online Use the Mirror Info window metaonline,
metaoffline
Replacing failed components Drag a replacement slice to the
errored slice
metareplace
Removing

Unmirroring a File System
Edit >> Delete metadetach,
metaclear
Performance Monitoring

Displaying device statistics

Object >> Statistics iostat
Displaying graphs Browse >> Statistics Graphs iostat
RAID5 Metadevices
Checking Status

Object >> Info

metastat
Creating Edit >> Create >> RAID metainit
Expanding Drag an unused slice to the RAID5 object metattach
Replacing failed components Drag a replacement slice to the
errored slice
metareplace
Removing Edit >> Delete metaclear
SPARCstorage Arrays

Checking status of fan and battery

Disk View >> Object >> Info ssaadm
Displaying controller information Disk View >> Object >> Info ssaadm
Disabling NVRAM Disk View >> Object >> Fast Write
Disable
ssaadm
Enabling NVRAM Disk View >> Object >> Fast Write >> Enable ssaadm
Enabling NVRAM (synchronous writes) Disk View >> Object >> Fast Write >> Synchronous ssaadm
Flushing outstanding writes from
NVRAM
Disk View >> Object >> Sync
NVRAM
ssaadm
Purging fast write data from NVRAM Select object, display menu, choose Purge NVRAM ssaadm
Reserving a Disk Disk View >> Object >> Reserve
Disks
ssaadm
Releasing a Disk Disk View >> Object >> Release
Disks
ssaadm
Starting a disk /tray/controller Disk View >> Object >> Start Disks ssaadm
Stopping a disk/tray/controller Disk View >> Object >> Stop Disks ssaadm
State DB Replicas
Adding more

Drag slices to the initialized
Metadevice State DB object

metadb
Attaching Use the MetaDB Info window metadb
Checking status Object >> Info metadb
Creating initial Drag slices to the uninitialized Metadevice State DB object metadb
Removing Display the Metadevice State
DB Information window
and choose Remove.
metadb
Restoring Display the Metadevice State
DB Information window
and choose Restore.
Viewing and modifying Use the Metadevice State
DB Info window
Stripes
Checking status

Object >> Info

metastat
Creating Edit >> Create >> Concat/Stripe metainit
Expanding Drag an unused slice to the object metattach
Recreating after slice failure Delete and recreate metadevice metaclear,
metainit
Removing Edit >> Delete metaclear
Trans Metadevices
Attaching logging device

Drag slice or metadevice to log
rectangle of trans device.

metattach
Checking status Object >> Info metastat
Creating Edit >> Create >> Trans metainit
Detaching logging device Drag logging device out of trans metadevice. metadetach
Removing Edit >> Delete metaclear
Sharing a log among trans
metadevices
Edit >> Create >> Trans; for the log,
use the same slice already in use
by another trans metadevice.
metainit *

* for the log, use the same slice already in use by another trans metadevice.