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cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

FaizirizaL — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:32:01 GMT

i have problem when trying to access logical volumes list thru SAM>>Disks and file systems>>logical volumes. The SAM seem cannot do its job while retrieving information..can anyone help me?

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

MarkSyder — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:35:11 GMT

Any error messages? Anything in the samlog?

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

Borislav Perkov — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:36:02 GMT

Please send information which operating system and type of the machine, and also are the disks internal or external.
Regards,
Borislav

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

FaizirizaL — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:05:12 GMT

there is no error message and not sure about the samlog. could you explain me to reach there?

>the machine using hp-ux 11.11

>SAM cannot go thru when - Retrieving Information About the HP Surestore Virtual Array

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

MarkSyder — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:35:11 GMT

/var/sam/log/samlog

Mark

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

MarkSyder — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:36:08 GMT

Apologies, I should have told you to use strings as it's not a simple text file.

strings samlog|pg

Mark

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

FaizirizaL — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:49:02 GMT

here is what i got from samlog. hope it useful..

Wed Sep 20 15:09:18 2006 Exiting SAM area "System Administration Manager (spe
ksap)".
@!@4@1158736224@0
Command completed with exit status 5.
@!@16@1158736224@0
Failed in retrieving disk array configuration. The amdsp command failed.
@!@8@1158736224@0
Exiting Task Manager with task pd_get_sdm_array_info.
@!@32@1158736224@0
The command used to retrieve information about HP SureStore VirtualArray has
failed. The stderr is shown below.^A^A^AINVALID ARRAY ID^A^A^Aarmdsp Usage:^A
^Aarmdsp { -a [-r] | -c [] | -d [] |^A -e
[] | -f | -L [LUN] [-r] |^A -p [] | -ps | -
s | -t |^A -vfp [] } ^Aarmdsp { -i [
] [-b | -v] }^Aarmdsp ^Aarmdsp -? Display extended help message
.^A^A/ADMIN: xhost: not found.^ANot a terminal^A^A/opt/sanmgr/commandview/cl
ient/sbin/armdsp, did not ^Aprovide a Serial Number for device file /dev/dsk/
c5t0d0.^APlease be sure that the array software utilities have ^Abeen properl
y installed and the device file exists. ^AThe Array and its LUNs will be disp
layed, but dual^Apaths will not be collapsed.^A^A
@!@8@1158736224@0
Entering Task Manager with task KC_REGEN_REQD.
@!@2@1158736224@0
Checking to see if kernel regen is required
Memory fault(coredump)
S

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

MarkSyder — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:15:33 GMT

The relevant bit seems to be "Failed in retrieving disk array configuration." Does it show up if you run

ioscan -fnC disk ?

Mark

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

MarkSyder — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:17:47 GMT

I've just checked error 5 in the file /usr/include/sys/errno.h: i/o error, which would tend to fit in with what appears in the samlog. Have you run the ioscan yet?

Mark

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

Jorge Pons — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:38:13 GMT

Hi

there are 2 things you can do, first, like says mark, run "ioscan -fnC disk" , the other one "armdiscover"

Regards, Jorge

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

Bill Hassell — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:37:15 GMT

You have an array hardware failure:

"The amdsp command failed."

The rest of the messages are all related to that failure. You may have a lot of other errors in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log too. Time to call HP service.

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

Khangelani Vuke — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:37:42 GMT

go this way....

sam>Disks and File Systems >logical volumes

This is GUI and may take some seconds

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

Doug O'Leary — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:48:08 GMT

Hey;

In addition to all the other suggestions, particularly, Bill Hassel's, lose sam. The command line is your friend. You could have found the answer significantly quicker using these commands:

vgdisplay
pvdisplay
ioscan

and by examining the system log in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.

Doug

Re: cannot view logical volumes inside SAM

Nagashankarp — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:22:28 GMT

which logical volumes are you trying to list, is it vg00 or other volume group, use vgdisplay -v vg00 (or other volume group) to list all logical volumes, are you able to do this ? also as mark says use ioscan -kfnC disk to find out whether the revelant disks are listed and claimed..

With Regards
Nagashankar