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Strange message on syslog

StefanoIntroini — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:48:15 GMT

Hi,
yesterday, we got some problems, it seems that the VA (7100) was very slow for about 5 minutes.

I attatch a piece of the syslog during such period of time, can you help me in understading what was happening.

Thank
Stefano

Re: Strange message on syslog

Chan 007 — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:55:48 GMT

Hi,

Powerfail normally comes when the disk is not seen by the server. e.g gone bad, loose cables.

Better do ioscan -fCdisk, vgdisplay -v vgname

you may get not claimed not on in sync sought of errors.

Once you see those errors better do a diskinfo on that disk and raise a call with local HP

Chan

Re: Strange message on syslog

RAC_1 — Thu, 18 May 2006 04:12:38 GMT

You had a problem with few of your disk. Check thode disks.

ll /dev/dsk | egrep '030500|050500|030600'

the disks above minor numbers need to be checked throughly. Check them with dd/stm

Re: Strange message on syslog

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:34:16 GMT

Hi Stefano,

You had some disk drive errors - specifically:

c3t0d5
c3t0d6
c5t0d5
c5t0d6

If c5 & c3 are links to the same LUN/drive I would suspect that the problem was the LUN/drive itself. Otherwise it could have been a switch or SAN front end port problem.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Strange message on syslog

AIMC — Thu, 18 May 2006 09:19:03 GMT

Hi Stefano,

This looks like you have a problem with your va7100, i'd guess at maybe a controller failure but the easiest way to find this out is to run arm commands

armdsp -i --> get the alias

armdsp -a ALIAS

armdiag -W ALIAS

if there is an issue you could generate a log file for HP by running

armdiag -I -if /tmp/va_logs ALIAS

this will generate a full log file /tmp/va_logs.zip which HP can analyse.

Regards,

Aidan

Re: Strange message on syslog

Albert_31 — Mon, 22 May 2006 06:54:01 GMT

Hello Stefano,

If you want to understand the messages here it is..

There are only two main messages reported..

a) LVM: Performed a switch for Lun ID = 0 (pv = 0x000000004f99d000), from raw device 0x1f030600 (with priority: 0, and current flags: 0x40) to raw device 0x1f050600 (with priority: 1, and current flags: 0x0).

It reports that LVM did a path switch from c3t0d6 to c5t0d6.

b) vg[6]: pvnum=0 (dev_t=0x1f050600) is POWERFAILED

The VG whose id is 6, and has c5t0d6 as one of the PV, has timeout on an IO. this timeout is dependent on the pvtimeout found in pvdisplay /dev/dsk/c3t0d6 .. default is 30secs

let me know if it answers your questions.

regards

albert

Re: Strange message on syslog

StefanoIntroini — Mon, 22 May 2006 07:41:49 GMT

I'm going to open a support request to HP

Thanks.