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  2. NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide
  3. Using the NetBackup Deduplication Shell
  4. Monitoring and troubleshooting NetBackup services from the deduplication shell
  5. Viewing information about the system
NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

Viewing information about the system

Use the following commands to view information about the system from the deduplication shell.

To view information about the hardware:

  • support hardware cpumem or support process htop: Displays the CPU and memory information

To view information about the software:

  • support software show-MSDP-version: Displays the Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP) version

  • support software show-OS-version: Displays the Linux operating system version

To view information about the system processes:

  • support process MSDP-process: Displays the MSDP processes

  • support process pidstat: Displays the operating system processes (PIDs)

To view information about the system performance:

  • support diskio iostat: Displays the information about the disk I/O

  • support diskio vmstat: Displays the information about the wait on the disk I/O

  • support diskio nmon: Displays the information about the monitor system, which monitors the disk I/O, the network I/O, and the CPU usage.

  • support diskio disk-volume: Displays the information about the disk volume

  • support process memory-usage: Displays the free and the used memory

  • support process atop: Displays detailed information about the operating system and process activity

To search the kernel parameters:

  • setting kernel search-param keyword=<keyword>

    Where <keyword> is the word that you want to search for.

To view network settings:

  • setting network ifconfig: Displays the internet configuration

  • setting network ping ip=<ip_address>: Pings the target IP address

  • setting network route route=<route>: Displays the network routing information

  • setting network netstat: Displays the network status and the protocol statistics

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