Viewing the deduplication (MSDP) history or configuration files
The deduplication services operate the Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) storage on the storage server. You can view the following files from the MSDP services:
The MSDP history files
The MSDP configuration files
Use the following procedures to view or search these files from the deduplication shell.
To view information about the files
- Open an SSH session to the server.
- Run one of the following commands:
support MSDP-history ls [dir=<directory>]
support MSDP-config ls [dir=<directory>]
Where [dir=<directory>] is an optional parameter to specify the directory that you want to view the files from. For example:
support MSDP-config ls dir=config
To view a file
- Open an SSH session to the server.
- Do one of the following:
To view an entire file, run one of the following commands:
support MSDP-history cat file=<file>
support MSDP-config cat file=<file>
Where <file> is the file name of the file that you want to view.
To view the last 10 lines of a file, run one of the following commands:
support MSDP-history tail file=<file>
support MSDP-config tail file=<file>
Where <file> is the file name of the file that you want to view.
To search a file
- Open an SSH session to the server.
- Run one of the following commands:
support MSDP-history grep file=<file> pattern=<keyword>
support MSDP-config grep file=<file> pattern=<keyword>
Where <file> is the file name of the file that you want to search and <keyword> is the naming pattern that you want to search for. For example:
support MSDP-config grep file=spa.cfg pattern=address