Mounting and Managing Network File Systems

The NfsMount component contains information about which file systems are being mounted via NFS. This information cannot be modified once the component is installed.

The Sun Cluster and SAP AC environments are not supported.

This section describes the following tasks:

• How to Create Network File System Mounts

• How to Delete Network File System Mounts

• How to Mount Network File Systems

• How to Unmount Network File Systems

• How to View All Mounted Network File Systems

• How to Check Network File Systems Mount Status

• How to Check Network File Systems Unmount Status

How to Create Network File System Mounts

This task creates the network file system (NFS) mount component.

This task is a markOnly task.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Network File System (NFS) Mount section of the SAP Tasks page, click Create.

3. Click Run.

4. In the Plan Parameters table, select the variable settings for the NFSMount component.

   • If the variable settings have been created for this component, select the appropriate settings from the drop-down menu.

   • If the variable settings are not available from the drop-down menu,

     1. click Select From List.

        The Select Variable Settings From List window displays.

        • To create a new variable settings set, click Create Set and type a Set Name.

          The following list provides commonly updated variables for the NFSShare component. To create a value for the component variable, click the check box in the component variable's row.

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          Note –

          For information about component variables ending in UserExit, see User Exits.

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          groupName

          This is a required field.

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          Note –

          In the Sun Cluster environment, the groupName must equal the Sun Cluster resource group name.

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          groupDescription

          A description of the group.

          resourceName

          Required for the Sun Cluster environment. The resourceName must equal the Sun Cluster resource name for the Sun Cluster envType.

          envType

          The environment type can only be default.

          createdBy

          Identifies the installer of the component.

          nfsServerName

          Required for the default environment. The logical host name for the NFS server.

          fileSystemMountPoint

          Required for the default environment. A comma-delimited list of directories.

     2. Click Save.

   • To use component variables from another component, click Import Set.

     For more information about importing variable sets, see How to Run a Plan in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Operation and Provisioning Guide.

5. Select the target host or target host set.

6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Delete Network File System Mounts

This task describes how to delete a network file system (NFS) mount component.

This task is a markOnly task.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Network File System (NFS) Mount section of the SAP Tasks page, click Delete.

3. Click Run.

4. Select target host or target host set.

5. Provide the plan variable.

   Install path of the NFS mount component

   This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Mount Network File Systems

This task calls the system service startNfsMount which does the following:

• In the default environment, this task shares the file systems by using the UNIX mount command.

• In the Sun Cluster environment, the appropriate Sun Cluster command is called.

• In the SAP AC environment, this task is not applicable.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Network File System (NFS) Mount section of the SAP Tasks page, click Mount.

3. Click Run.

4. Select target host or target host set.

5. Provide the plan variable.

   Install path of the NFS mount component

   This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Unmount Network File Systems

This task calls system service stopNfsMount which does the following:

• In the default environment, this task calls the umount command to stop the NFS mount resource.

• In Sun Cluster environment, the appropriate Sun Cluster command is called.

• In SAP AC environments, this task is not applicable.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Network File System (NFS) Mount section of the SAP Tasks page, click Unmount.

3. Click Run.

4. Select target host or target host set.

5. Provide the plan variable.

   Install path of the NFS mount component

   This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

   Force unmounting the filesystem

   This check box is selected by default.

6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to View All Mounted Network File Systems

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Network File System (NFS) Mount section of the SAP Tasks page, click View All.

   The Hosts Where Installed table is displayed.

How to Check Network File Systems Mount Status

Plan to verify the network file systems (NFS) are mounted.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Network File System (NFS) Mount section of the SAP Tasks page, click Mount Status.

3. Click Run.

4. Select target host or target host set.

5. Provide the plan variable.

   Install path of the NFS mount component

   This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

How to Check Network File Systems Unmount Status

Plan to verify the network file systems (NFS) are mounted.

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

2. In the Network File System (NFS) Mount section of the SAP Tasks page, click Unmount Status.

3. Click Run.

4. Select target host or target host set.

5. Provide the plan variable.

   Install path of the NFS mount component

   Required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

   The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.