How to delete content from a pool.

Thank You for the answer,but it seems in the other thread what I linked, somebody else had the same isssue.

I my case the Centera is full too, and i get this error. I cheked the supported obj. count is 75M/node in my case.

I think I am going to contact ENC support to lower this value and maybe then I can delete without any problem.

Krisztian

EMC lowered the supported object count (SOC) value on the Centera, and then I was able to delete data.

Hi,

I need to do something similar and I don´t want to use sdk but I can´t find the cascommandline tools.

could you tell me where I can find it?

Thanks.

Andres Nourian.

Andres - the command line tools are not distibuted any more. You should use JCAScript - this is the supported tool for working with content outside of the original application.

https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-2393

Thanks gstuartemc!

I´m reading the JCASScript users manual and I think this are the correct steps to connect - query and delete the c-clips for a virtual pool

To connect to the cluster

CASScript>poolOpen x.x.x.x?c:\centera\file.pea

to query the c-clips ids

CASScript>query

to remove the c-clips listed on the query

CASScript>clipDel BPLCN5SC6GAJ4e5NHLR9SLTNIA0

Then the GC will be remove the blobs.

This is correct or I missed something?

Thanks a lot,

Andres.

Hi Andres,

That is correct.

Note that for query, you can also set an upper/lower bound to include time bound search (use help on the CASScript prompt and you will see something like querysetupperbound and querysetlowerbound)

Andres - be VERY careful that you only have Read / Query / Delete permission on the virtual pool whose contents you wish to delete! Query will return the results of ALL cclips in pools that you have Read and Query capabilities on, and this includes the default pool - which you obviously do not want to try and empty!!

So create a new profile with very limited access capabilities to match your needs. I would also recommend disabling Delete completely on the default pool while you are performing this operation (just to be on the safe side).

Thanks to both of you for the advice.

I will do that to be sure I´m not deleting the wrong cclips.

Thanks a lot!

Andres.

Hi Paul,

just I´m interesting following the communication about delete of C-Clips on Centera.

Is there a way or tool availablt to delete C-Clips maybe via JCASScript or things like that based on a dump txt file.

I have approx 8 million objects left on EMC in default pool which needs to be deleted.

Is there a script available to include a txt file with all clips into the command string of JCASScript

Thanks

Manfred

Hi Manfred,

We do not have any publicly available tool that allows mass clip deletion on a production system. In an ideal case the deletion is handled at the application level so that it updates the databases and any other related information that it stores for references purposes (important if you are using a compliance model of Centera and are bound by any compliance regulations that require you to keep track of when/why a particular content was deleted).

If you just want the clips to be deleted and do not care about any application specific updates or compliance then I suggest you open up a service request with EMC Support and have them take a look at it.

Thanks,
Zeeshan

Hello Manfred,

Did you succeed to delete your 8 million objects ?

With what mean (have you invoked EMC support as Zeehan Khan suggested you ?)

Thanks.

Jean