- <para>In the course of administering a Lustre file system, you may need to determine which machine is serving a specific OST. It is not as simple as identifying the machine’s IP address, as IP is only one of several networking protocols that Lustre uses and, as such, LNET does not use IP addresses as node identifiers, but NIDs instead. To identify the NID that is serving a specific OST, run one of the following commands on a client (you do not need to be a root user): <screen>client$ lctl get_param osc.<replaceable>fsname</replaceable>-<replaceable>OSTnumber</replaceable>*.ost_conn_uuid</screen>For example: <screen>client$ lctl get_param osc.*-OST0000*.ost_conn_uuid
-osc.lustre-OST0000-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp</screen>- OR - <screen>client$ lctl get_param osc.*.ost_conn_uuid
-osc.lustre-OST0000-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
-osc.lustre-OST0001-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
-osc.lustre-OST0002-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
-osc.lustre-OST0003-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
-osc.lustre-OST0004-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp</screen></para>
+ <para>In the course of administering a Lustre file system, you may need to determine which
+ machine is serving a specific OST. It is not as simple as identifying the machine’s IP
+ address, as IP is only one of several networking protocols that the Lustre software uses and,
+ as such, LNET does not use IP addresses as node identifiers, but NIDs instead. To identify the
+ NID that is serving a specific OST, run one of the following commands on a client (you do not
+ need to be a root user):
+ <screen>client$ lctl get_param osc.<replaceable>fsname</replaceable>-<replaceable>OSTnumber</replaceable>*.ost_conn_uuid</screen>For
+ example:
+ <screen>client$ lctl get_param osc.*-OST0000*.ost_conn_uuid
+osc.testfs-OST0000-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp</screen>-
+ OR -
+ <screen>client$ lctl get_param osc.*.ost_conn_uuid
+osc.testfs-OST0000-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
+osc.testfs-OST0001-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
+osc.testfs-OST0002-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
+osc.testfs-OST0003-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp
+osc.testfs-OST0004-osc-f1579000.ost_conn_uuid=192.168.20.1@tcp</screen></para>