Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I'm using drbd-utils-9.0.0 but it does not appear to have drbdmon. Drbdtop sounds awesome. -- Eric Robinson > -----Original Message----- > From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user- > bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Robert Altnoeder > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 2:06 AM > To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Fails to Establish Connection > > On 07/24/2017 10:08 PM, Roland Kammerer wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 06:53:25PM +0000, Eric Robinson wrote: > >>> # drbdadm status > >>> # drbdadm status --verbose > >>> # drbdsetup status > >>> # drbdsetup status --statistics > >>> # drbdsetup status --verbose --statistics > >>> > >> Well, there you go. I guess I keep running into places where commands > >> do not work as they did previously > [...] > > So, with drbd8 you had simple point-to-point connections with two > > nodes and you had a hand full of resources. That can be exposed via > > /proc nicely. > > > > With drbd9 you can have hundreds of resources. They can have complex > > topologies like full meshes, > [...] > > Exposing that via /proc is a bad idea. > > By the way, newer drbd-utils versions also come with a utility called > 'drbdmon', which displays a live-view of the resources in a very compressed > format by hiding or shortening most unnecessary information (all the things > that are working the way they should) while still highlighting those resources, > volumes and connections that are in a problematic state, and showing > detailed status only for those items. > > It was originally written for internal use at LINBIT while testing with many > resources, where even the output of 'drbdadm status' was too cumbersome > to read. Since it turned out to be useful for getting a quick overview of what's > going on with DRBD 9 resources, it was decided to make it publicly available > as a part of the drbd-utils package. > > To start it, with a unicode-capable terminal, you simply type drbdmon > > If your terminal is not unicode capable, use drbdmon --ascii > > Once in, several hotkeys allow navigating and switching views, most of it is > pretty much self-explanatory. > > Another utility that is being actively developed by LINBIT staff is 'drbdtop', > which also enables a user to change the state of > resources/volumes/connections using hotkeys instead of having to type > drbdadm commands. > > Therefore I think it is safe to say that you can expect many improvements of > that kind in the future, and once all the new tools go into production use, I > guess noone is going to miss the /proc/drbd file anymore. > > -- > Robert Altnoeder > +43 1 817 82 92 0 > robert.altnoeder at linbit.com > > LINBIT | Keeping The Digital World Running DRBD - Corosync - Pacemaker f / > t / in / g+ > > DRBD(r) and LINBIT(r) are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user