About This Guide

This publication documents administrative troubleshooting for the Data Migration Facility (DMF) release 3.0 on SGI Altix 3000 systems running the Linux operating system and other SGI systems runinng the IRIX operating system 6.5.2 and later releases.

Related Publications

See the DMF Administrator's Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage.

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  • If it is installed on your IRIX SGI system, you can use InfoSearch, an online tool that provides a more limited set of online books, release notes, and man pages. With an IRIX system, select Help from the Toolchest, and then select InfoSearch . Or you can type infosearch on a command line.

  • You can view IRIX release notes by typing either grelnotes or relnotes on a command line.

  • You can view man pages by typing man title on a command line.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention 

Meaning

command 

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

manpage(x) 

Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.

variable 

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input 

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.)

[ ] 

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

... 

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

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