topic Nickel Problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Nickel Problem

Gilbert Eu_1 — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:26:18 GMT

I have run the nickel script and waited for almost 30 minutes but it seems that it has not completed. When I check the output directory, seems that it kinda hanged when producing the output for cstm_i file.

What could be causing the problem?

Here's an output of "ps -ef | grep nickel" and what's on my screen right now.

Nickel Revision: A.01.12b15

Note, the Temporary Output will go to the following Directory:
/var/nickel

Point your favourite Web browser to that directory and
open the file index.html to see the results.

Final Archived File:
/var/nickel.psa1a.tar.gz

Collecting System Information...

# ps -ef | grep nickel
root 27285 27284 0 16:48:44 pts/ta 0:01 /usr/sbin/stm/ui/bin/stm -c -f /var/nickel/cstm_i
root 27284 27272 0 16:48:44 pts/ta 0:00 /usr/bin/sh /usr/sbin/cstm -f /var/nickel/cstm_i
root 1644 1385 0 17:18:01 pts/tb 0:00 grep nickel
root 27272 26587 0 16:48:44 pts/ta 0:00 /sbin/sh /opt/contrib/bin/nickel -o /var/nickel
root 26587 15809 0 16:47:43 pts/ta 0:00 /sbin/sh /opt/contrib/bin/nickel -o /var/nickel

Re: Nickel Problem

Alex Lavrov. — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 05:00:56 GMT

AFAIK, nickel was not updated several years. There is another cute tool for configuration collection, that is updated constantly and gives very nice and clean output - CFG2HTML. Works not only for HPUX, but also for Linux.

http://www.cfg2html.com/

Alex.

Re: Nickel Problem

Bill Hassell — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:42:12 GMT

Your diagnostics need reinstalling, or better yet, updating. You can verify that the problem is not nickel but cstm with a simple command line like:

echo "selclass qualifier memory;info;wait;infolog" | /usr/sbin/cstm

If this command does not complete in less than 30 seconds, your diags are corrupt.

Re: Nickel Problem

Gilbert Eu_1 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:57:13 GMT

Alex,

The cfg2html tool did not work either. It was hanging too.

Bill,

That really helped me identify what the problem is. I had to restart the diagmond process to succesfully execute the command you gave.

Nickel and cfg2html are now running.

Thanks guys.

Re: Nickel Problem

Gilbert Eu_1 — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:28:07 GMT

I needed to restart the diagmond process.