topic Re: sar: Corrupted data file in Operating System - HP-UX

sar: Corrupted data file

ManojK_1 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:25:08 GMT

Hi,

I am Using HP Unix 11.31 in our environment.

We are using a third party software for monitoring the Servers.

In our superdome the software is not working and throwing the following error.

sar: Corrupted data file
perfparse.sh[17]: %usr: syntax error

In All other rx servers it is working perfectly.

What might be the reason for it?

Re: sar: Corrupted data file

Johnson Punniyalingam — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:48:42 GMT

>>sar: Corrupted data file
perfparse.sh[17]: %usr: syntax error<<

user syntax error - > means you need to check with your third party software support. and let them check the above mentioned errors.

looks like third party software , problem

Re: sar: Corrupted data file

ManojK_1 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:12:01 GMT

Hi,

I have raised the issue with the software team.

What is my question is why it is happening only with the napr from SuperDome.

Thers is any specific reason?

Re: sar: Corrupted data file

Dennis Handly — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:00:07 GMT

Your third party software may be failing because the sar(1m) data files are corrupted: sar: Corrupted data file

I assume these are from the cronjob that you can use with sa1(1M). So just remove these files and see if that fixes things?

Re: sar: Corrupted data file

Viktor Balogh — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:08:02 GMT

Remove the old sa files as Dennis said: /var/adm/sa/saxx where xx is two digits representing the date.

Re: sar: Corrupted data file

ManojK_1 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:17:33 GMT

Hi All,

Thanks for the great support.

The issue is solved by updating the latest sar patch "PHCO_39214".

Manoj K

Re: sar: Corrupted data file

ManojK_1 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:40:46 GMT

Not only the new sar patch installation, also the removal of the SAR-MEMFS utility helped me to solve the issue.

Thanks