topic Re: Proactive/General Maintenance in Operating System - HP-UX

Proactive/General Maintenance

yaplej — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:59:17 GMT

Hello,

We have two HPUX hosts running some very critical software, and honestly the proactive maintenance on these things is non-existent. One is a test box so I have been playing around on it, and learning a lot.

What should I be looking for in terms of logs that I could be paying attention to?

I have recently learned about the mstm, and checked it out a little ran an "exercise" on everything.

I figured after exercising the disks I could check syslog.log for SCSI timeouts with this.
more /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log | grep “SCSI: Request Timeout”

I also logged into the GSP, and viewed the logs in there for the first time. Not that I actually knew what all those messages were about. I noticed the attention light quit flashing after that.

Re: Proactive/General Maintenance

njia_1 — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:31:30 GMT

Hi there

Don't worry about the attention light, it will go away once you read logs from GSP.

Have a look at HP OpenView product family then you should have some ideas.

Re: Proactive/General Maintenance

S-M-S — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:40:02 GMT

It was "orange amber" not "red" right?
That means its only a warning and will stop flashing once you read those logs :)

Re: Proactive/General Maintenance

yaplej — Wed, 19 May 2010 04:55:24 GMT

I was wondering if there were any docs on what logs to review on say a weekly or monthly basis. Also what logs should be cleared after being reviewed.

Case in point we have /var/adm/sw/swagent.log entries that go back to 2003. Should those ever be cleared? There are some errors in there but nothing critical that I noticed.

Because the logs have been neglected for so long its tempting to just find out what we should be looking at then clear them all to start fresh.

Re: Proactive/General Maintenance

Prasanth V Aravind — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:02:00 GMT

You can press "T" before reading gsp logs , which will give detailed text logs. I am not sure that this feature available on all hp servers.