I'm in the DARK, Need some help, Centera rookie.

Hi DS -

If you are able to connect with the Centera Viewer and/or CLI you can run this command to get an idea of what is accessing your Centera:

"show registered application usage"

The output might not be exactly what you expect, but if you need help you can post the output here.

Good Luck,

Mike Horgan

It depends on the application, which has written to objects to Centera.  If CAS APIs have been used, there is no easy way to migrate CAS Objects identified by the Content Address to a NAS system, where a path and file name is the identifier. In this case your application needs to read all objects from existing archive (Centera) and write it to the new archive (Isilon). If retention enforcement (compliance)  has been required for Centera, then the appropriate mechanism has to be activated on the new target (by setting the retention period to the remaining time!). In any way this external copy might conflict with compliance rules of immutability!

A former employer of mine had a similar configuration.  However, I KNEW what applications wrote to it and KNEW who to contact to ensure the data was properly migrated.

This case (new company) nobody knows.

I'll try the CLI commands from a previous post..

Hi Helmut -

Let's take it slow and try not to scare this person

Also, as I'm sure you are aware, Interlock (www.interlock-tech.com) can transparently transform object data from most of the top CAS API applications Isilon NAS quite efficiently,with full compliance and audit trail support .

Best Regards,

Mike Horgan