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PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CLI Administration Guide

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PowerScaleSRS Managed File Transfer support

Managed File Transfer (MFT) support for OneFS provides the ability for customers to download suggested files and updates directly from Dell Technologies PowerScale by using SRS commands.

MFT is not a licensed feature of OneFS, but it does require that SRS is enabled.

Currently, MFT configuration and usage is only available from the CLI, and is integrated with the OneFS job engine. No more than one file at a time is downloaded to the cluster. Files can include packages, patches, and scripts.

Configure the MFT download feature

Use the isi esrs modify command to enable MFT. 

isi esrs modify --download-enabled=true

The MFT feature has configurable options, with default settings that might not need any adjustments. Use the isi esrs view command to check the current MFT option settings. The following figure is an example of the command output.

Figure 1. The isi esrs view command output
The isi esrs view command output

The following table describes the configurable options.

Table 1. Configurable MFT options
MFT option Description
Download Enabled Download is disabled by default.
ESRS File Download Timeout Period Specifies the length of time in seconds for each file chunk to finish downloading.
ESRS File Download Error Retries Specifies the number of retries before the job fails.
ESRS File Download Chunk Size Sets the size in Kb for each file chunk.
ESRS Download Filesystem Limit Sets the file system limit (percentage) at which MFT does not send any more files.

To change any of the settings, use isi esrs modify.

Download files with MFT

Use the isi esrs download start/ifs/<destination_location> command to begin downloading a file from the secure locker.

NOTE A secure locker is a customer-specific directory that is located in the Dell Technologies back end infrastructure. Access is only granted to users who are assigned permissions to do so.

The following figure is an example of the output for isi esrs download start.

Figure 2. The isi esrs download start command output
The isi esrs download start command output

Use the isi esrs download list command to view the list of files to be downloaded.

Use the isi job view command to view job details. A checksum is used to verify the contents and integrity of the file after it is downloaded. If the checksum fails, the file is quarantined. The following figure is an example of the command output.

Figure 3. isi job view command output
isi job view command output

Use the isi job reports view command to view job status.

Figure 4. The isi job reports view command output
The isi job reports view command output

Troubleshooting data is written to the /var/log/isi_job_d.log and the /var/log/isi_esrs_d.log log files.

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