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Scan Slices

What is the use of the tools ?

Scan each slice directory and compares the details with metaslice db and prints the results in table-format

How it works ?

First,it get the timestamp of given slices directory
Then ,Checks the slice is present or not in the meta-slice
If present it compares the slice date present in the directory with slice details present in meta-slice
The difference between the two timestamps should be below or equal to 10 min.
And it also check the archive file is present in each slice directory and print the status in terminal

Options

Syntax	Info
scan_slices .	Print all slice details of current directory
scan_slice SLICE_NAME	Print details of specific slice
scan_slice /path/of/slice/directory	Print all slice details in a given directory

Description of each column

Parameters	Info
Slice name	Represent the name of the slice given or directory
Status	Directory name of slices like oper,archive,ref
Instance	Directory present in oper like 0,1,…
Meta slice timestamp	Each and every slice timestamp present in Db
Topper timestamp	It is present in the slice directory itself
Slide date	A file that contains the date in the file name
Date-match	compare the date between topper and meta-slice timestamp & check the difference is below 10 min or not
Slice in db	Check the slice is present in meta-slice db or not
Archive	check if archive file is present or not

Example
/usr/local/share/trisul-hub/scan_slices.sh .

You can get the details of specific slice or every slice in the directory