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What stream data should my application keep?
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Brief explanation of what the Swarm health processor does
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How to replace a failed drive
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Leap Second
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Shellshock Bash Vulnerability
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Why do my stream counts decrease on an idle cluster?
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Where can I find Swarm bidding information?
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_forgetDelete error
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503 Service Unavailable Response Conditions
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Am I notified when an integrity check fails?
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Archive Mode
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Can I search for objects based on their Content-MD5 using Swarm Search?
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Chunked encoding
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Does multicast frequency effect over replication clean up?
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Erasure Coding Over-replication
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ERROR Swarm pid_file _tmp_castor.pid.0 refers to the wrong process name
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Exceeding license capacity
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Failed Drive Removal
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How are requests spread across a Swarm cluster?
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How can I browse through all of the content in a Swarm cluster?
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How can I tell if a node shutdown or reboot was initiated by the administrator
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How do I create a lifepoint in the correct format for a specific date or time?
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How do I format / reformat a single disk?
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How do I manually check the base64 content-MD5 stored in Swarm?
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Are there any special hardware requirements to take advantage of the Darkive feature?
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Are there security issues or considerations about the multicast packets on the client network?
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Can a node have public and private network designations?
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Can DHCP, NTP and SNMP services be configured on a different network segment, or must they be in the same network segment?
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Can I use a Windows Domain Controller as my NTP source?
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cip.histogramSamples in Swarm 7+
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Can we separate application servers that serve different purposes (reading, writing, etc) onto different network segments?
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Disabling console blanking / powersaving feature of the terminal console monitor
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Do I have to specify the retention days when I write data into Swarm or can I omit the retention days parameter?
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Does the creation of a secondary DNS inside the network provide improvements?
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EC Parameters in the Persistent Settings Stream in mixed Swarm pre-8.1
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For "round robin" DNS usage, wouldn't a lower configured TTL (time-to-live) of 0 be preferable?
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How do I get rsyslog to log timestamps and IP addresses from remote machines?
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How do I prevent my disks from going idle?
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How much memory is recommended in a Swarm node?
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How much syslog space does Swarm use?
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Health Usage Report (in Swarm 6.5.x and beyond)
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Send a health report to DataCore Support
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How to USB boot Swarm nodes using web hosted license and configuration files
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Can Swarm components run in VMware?
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Changing Swarm admin password for Swarm 7.2 or higher
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Which Virtual Machine platforms are supported for Swarm deployment?
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How to Verify NTP Information on Swarm Nodes
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Symantec/Veritas Enterprise Vault Swarm/CAStor integration
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What is cip.histogramTolerance?
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How to look at the Replication feed FEEDs info line- feed causes
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How do I fix trapped space?
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How do I know if defragmentation is going on?
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What OS does Swarm use?
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How to check and change healthExamDelay
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Is a VLAN needed between the cluster nodes or is the fact that the cluster is behind a switch enough?
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Is it necessary to configure "round-robin" DNS in the Primary DNS or can a secondary DNS be utilized?
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Is it possible to specify different configuration parameters for different nodes when netbooting?
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miimon bonding parameter
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Multiple processes per physical Swarm node
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"Not enough information to estimate license space" error
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Are retiring nodes' streams counted when performing a countreps for a stream
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Can I reboot a single process in a multi-process Swarm node?
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Confirming Current Licensed capacity for Swarm CSN Dell DX
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Does Swarm allow lifepoint policy updates for content after the content has been stored in Swarm?
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FEEDS INFO - feed queue is full
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How can I clear the errors and announcements from all of my nodes?
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How can I validate that the streams I am sending to Swarm are being received?
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How to update the cluster's Technical Contact
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How do I collect the hardware MIB (non Caringo values) for net-snmp?
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How do I configure rsyslog server to accept incoming syslog messages from Swarm products?
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How do I disable the health status reports (phone home)
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How do I find out how many processors are available on my running Swarm node?
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How do I find out my disk controller/ driver version?
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How do I list the UUIDs on a volume?
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What is needed to create a solution that has no single point of failure?
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How is Swarm protected from network attacks from worms, trojan horses or viruses?
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Is there a CLI interface from which to gather statistics?
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How does a Swarm system handle a UPS event?
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In a complete Swarm chassis failure scenario, what is the process for replacing it?
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How is the health of Swarm monitored?
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Is there an easy way to monitor streams to gauge when hard drive space is becoming scarce?
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Is replacing a failed hard disk as simple as turning off a node, swapping in a new disk and restarting the node?
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Node fails to boot- node has a media card reader
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Node fails to boot- NTP
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SNMP Traps in Swarm
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Large files in Swarm
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Used capacity vs Licensed capacity in Swarm
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I/O errors and Swarm nodes
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Stale Volumes and the ":k" flag
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Network Traffic in a Cluster
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Missing debug level logs
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Protect the Swarm admin console with username/ password
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Unretire all
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Troubleshooting a spike in disk failures or retires
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I deleted my persistent settings stream that contained my domains!
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Stream count does not seem right after reboot
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Can I Add Capacity to My Existing License?
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Is training available for Swarm?
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Maintenance mode
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Persistent Settings Stream (PSS)
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_forgetDelete error - journaled
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How do I manually write an EC stream?
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Integrity Check Failures
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How do I tcpdump to capture only HEAD traffic?
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How much syslog space does CAStor use?
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How many replicas do I get with minreps=1 and Replicate on Write (ROW)?
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How does network bandwidth impact Swarm operations?
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How does retire work?
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How does Swarm handle interrupted transfers (abandoned uploads)?
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How is a node chosen in a Swarm cluster when Read/ Write requests are sent from the application?
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How do I prevent my newly added disks from getting overwhelmed by replicas from existing streams?
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How is content referenced in Swarm?
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Is it safe to upgrade a license on a running production cluster?
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How to add metadata for better searches
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IDE Disk Drive Support
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In which sequence should the cluster be increased to improve performance: RAM, additional storage, or additional nodes?
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InterSCSP lost connection messages
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Losing UUIDs
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Offline nodes appear in the console
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Read bulletin gone for stream
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Reducing Swarm RAM usage
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Replicate on Write (ROW)
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Replication Feed Not Working- Blocked
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Replication Feeds Audit messages- source side
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Retiring nodes
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Swarm services are stopped
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Since we have multicasting protocol between nodes, do we need a router and switch that can be configured with multicast?
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SNMP read-write user should not be removed from node/cluster.cfg
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Swarm cache mechanism
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Swarm configuration parameters that overlap
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Swarm hard drive type recommendation
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Swarm heartbeat
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Swarm nodes can't see each other (IGMP snooping)
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Swarm Rep Bid of 255
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Swarm socket limit
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Swarm timeout for reading and writing files
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Transactional Data
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Transition from Content Router to Replication Feeds
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Turn on component level logging in Swarm
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Used space is not showing correctly after a reboot
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Used space shows as 0 bytes for my Swarm VM
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Using Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI storage
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UUID Collisions
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What are the file descriptor/connection messages in syslog
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What can cause a 412- Precondition Failed message?
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What causes a Persistent Settings Stream to be created initially?
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What does the following Swarm error mean? DISK ERROR
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What happens if a stream is deleted while a replica is temporarily offline?
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What happens to unfinished streams on Swarm?
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What happens when a node or disk fails?
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What is cip.readRetries?
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What is default replicas and how do I use it?
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What is Replication Threshold?
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What is the "auth" token I see in my debug logs?
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What is the 404 Per Overlay message?
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What is the process to gather statistics using SNMP?
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What is unique about the Swarm architecture that simplifies
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What parameters are in a Persisted Settings Stream in 8.1.0
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What password should be used when performing operations
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What's the "console" directory for?
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When a node starts up, how does it find the right cluster to join?

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Is there an easy way to monitor streams to gauge when hard drive space is becoming scarce?