drbd-overview gives "NOTE: drbd-overview will be deprecated soon."

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12

Situation

In SLE11 and before it was possible to check the status of drbd with

   cat /proc/drbd

in SLE12 there is the command

   drbd-overview

while the output of /proc/drbd is essentially useless in SLE12.

with SLE12 and after an update drbd-utils-9.4 there might be a note like

   animal:~ # drbd-overview
   NOTE: drbd-overview will be deprecated soon.
   Please consider using drbdtop.

but there is no drbdtop application. Also this might break scripts that parse the output of drbd-overview

This misleading comment will be fixed in later versions.

Resolution

The tools that can be better used for checking the status of DRBD in SLE 12 are

   drbdadm status

and

   drbdsetup status -vs

the difference being the depth of the information provided

   animal:~ # drbdadm status
   sap_ascs role:Secondary
   disk:UpToDate
   aberfeldy role:Primary
       peer-disk:UpToDate

and

   animal:~ # drbdsetup status -vs
   sap_ascs node-id:1 role:Secondary suspended:no
       write-ordering:flush
   volume:0 minor:0 disk:UpToDate quorum:yes
         size:5242044 read:0 written:8192 al-writes:0 bm-writes:0 upper-pending:0 lower-pending:0 al-suspended:no blocked:no
   aberfeldy node-id:0 connection:Connected role:Primary congested:no
       volume:0 replication:Established peer-disk:UpToDate resync-suspended:no
           received:8192 sent:0 out-of-sync:0 pending:0 unacked:0

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