GridLink Utility:
Miscellaneous Tools

These tools can help the farm administrator to manage the farm and diagnose problems. The user can perform the following actions under "Tools" menu.

• Get Servers' System Information

To view the system information (such as CPU, Memory, Operating System, Hard Disk, etc.) of servers in one window.

• Get Free Disk Space

Allows the user to view the free disk space for all drives on all servers. This is very useful for the farm administrator to make sure that all servers have enough disk space to store AXIS files.

• Retrieve Local Log Messages from Servers

Allows the user to get messages logged by controllers without logging on to every machine.

• Get Servers’ IP Addresses

To show the IPv4 addresses of the servers. If a server is multi-homed, all addresses will be listed.

• Show System Time

To show the current system time and the system uptime on servers.

• Test File/Path

To check the accessibility of a file/path on servers.

In the case that a job failed because the controller couldn’t access certain file/path, you can use this feature to confirm/diagnose the problem.

• Server Message Block 2.0 Settings - Set/Check SMB2 Settings in Registry

Server Message Block (SMB) Version 2 is a network file system protocol that has been implemented in Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC Server and other operating systems.

When SMB2 is in use, depending on the registry settings, the local caching on the client side may become out-of-sync with the file system and this may cause AXIS Distributed Processing to fail. The farm administrator may need to select the menu "Set SMB2 Settings in Registry" to change some registry settings on GridLink servers in order to avoid this problem. He/she can also check the settings by selecting the menu "Check SMB2 Settings in Registry".

For more information, please refer to our online KB article #1173:

http://www.ggy.com/support/kbase/kbdetails.asp?searchterm=&articleid=1173

To troubleshoot printer problems on a GridLink server, right-click it and select the menu "Tools - Enumerate Printers" and the user will see a list of printers accessible by the service account on the server. The user can also click on "Test Selected Printer" button to print out a test page.

To designate a new Profile Host, right-click on the server and select the menu "Tools - Make this server the Profile Host".