Section showing Tips and Tricks
As a Splunk admin managing the storage for the Splunk deployment, it is not uncommon to browse the index directories on the Splunk indexers either to gather the total storage usage across hot/warm and cold tiers or to perform backup or restore activities. In the traditional Splunk Enterprise deployment with direct attached storage or an …
To preserve the device names across reboots in Linux, udev rules is the recommended option. The idea is to extract SCSI device’s unique ID and assign it to a symbolic name that will persist across reboots. To get the SCSI device’s unique ID, Linux command scsi_id can be used. On VMware, you might run into …
In Linux, ASMLib provides the wrapper for managing the ASM disks. To identify the underlying physical device that the ASM disk point to, you can use the oracleasm querydisk command. The querydisk option will list the major and minor numbers that can be used to match the physical device. The following example was run on …
