Displays information regarding the IBM® General Parallel File System (GPFS™) cluster.
You can display information regarding the GPFS cluster using the db2ckgpfs command.
This command can be found in the DB2DIR/install/gpfs directory (where DB2DIR represents the location where the DB2® copy is installed.)
Command syntax
>>-db2ckgpfs--+-----+--+--------------+------------------------->
'- -d-' '- -l--logFile-'
>--+- -v--install | media---+--+-----+-------------------------><
+- -s--install | media---+ +- -h-+
'- -c-- -n--cluster-name-' '- -?-'
Command parameters
- -d
- Turns debug mode on.
- -l logFile
- Writes the log to the file name specified.
- -v install | media
- Displays the GPFS version
already installed on the system, or, the GPFS version on the installation media.
- 0 - Success
- 7 - GPFS is not installed
on the system
- 8 - GPFS is not on the
media
- -s install | media
- Prints the efix string of GPFS version.
- -c
- Displays the name of the GPFS cluster (if it exists.) The cluster information is indicated by
a return code value:
- 9 - No cluster
- 0 - Online cluster
- 10 - Cluster exists, but is not online
- -n cluster-name
- This parameter must be used with the -c parameter. Displays the
status of a specific GPFS cluster.
The cluster information is indicated by a return code value:
- 9 - No cluster
- 0 - Online cluster
- 10 - Cluster exists, but is not online
- -h | -?
- Displays the usage information.
Example
To display the GPFS version level installed in your
DB2 pureScale® environment, use the following
db2ckgpfs command:
db2ckgpfs -v install
To display
the GPFS version level on the
installation media, use the following
db2ckgpfs command:
db2ckgpfs -v media
To display
the status of a specific GPFS cluster, use the following
db2ckgpfs command:
db2ckgpfs -c -n db2cluster