topic Re: T4$now errors when run in Operating System - OpenVMS

T4$now errors when run

Mike R Smith — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:31:27 GMT

It's my understanding that the T4$now command procedure will allow me to gather up what has been logged for the day up until this point. When I run it on my system it runs into problems. The resulting file is unreadable by TLVIZ. This is being run on a 8.3 Alpha with recent patches (within 6 months). T4 version appears to be 4.3.

Has anyone seen anything similar? Any ideas?

T4 Data Location : PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]
Searching for these files ... PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_*_Mon.Dat;

Directory PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]

T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_MON.DAT;1
424378/425216 13-AUG-2009 00:01:00.12

Total of 1 file, 424378/425216 blocks.
Process file T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_MON Y/[N] ? y
T4_NOW-I-GEN, generating T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_1418_Mon.Csv using T4EXTR - ple
ase wait ...
T4EXTR$CONCAT error - Total strings to be concatenated :: 530 (but could only m
anage :: 366)
%SYSTEM-E-TOOMANYUNITS, too many storage units for a pool
T4_NOW-I-APRC, processing PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_LCK7.C
SV;1 - please wait ...
%RMS-E-EOF, end of file detected
T4_NOW-I-APRC, processing PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_NETM_E
WA0.CSV;1 - please wait ...
%RMS-E-EOF, end of file detected
T4_NOW-I-APRC, processing PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_NETM_E
WB0.CSV;1 - please wait ...
%RMS-E-EOF, end of file detected
T4_NOW-I-APRC, processing PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_NETM_E
WC0.CSV;1 - please wait ...
%RMS-E-EOF, end of file detected
T4_NOW-I-APRC, processing PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_NETM_E
WD0.CSV;1 - please wait ...
%RMS-E-EOF, end of file detected
T4_NOW-I-APRC, processing PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_NETM_L
LA0.CSV;1 - please wait ...
%RMS-E-EOF, end of file detected
T4_NOW-I-APRC, processing PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_2359_XFC.CS
V;1 - please wait ...
%RMS-E-EOF, end of file detected

Directory PERF$DATA:[T4$DATA]

T4_ANODE_13AUG2009_0001_1418_MON.CSV;1
1/50000 13-AUG-2009 14:18:14.69

Re: T4$now errors when run

Richard J Maher — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:27:23 GMT

It is my understanding that the "T4$" prefix is too similar to the previously registered "T3$" prefix to have made it registerable. But why ask Didgital/Compaq/HP(VMS) to adhere to their own standards/conventions I suppose?

Anyway nothing to do with your question so I'll be off; don't mind me.

Cheers Richard Maher

Re: T4$now errors when run

Karl Rohwedder — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:18:53 GMT

Does it not work only with this special monitor data file (it's quite big) or is it a general problem? Perhaps you should call HP.

I am using still V4.0 (had some issues with V4.3) but the T4$MON_EXTRACT image from the V4.3 kit.

regards Kalle

Re: T4$now errors when run

EdgarZamora — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:56:52 GMT

Try using the SYSTEM account when you execute the T4$NOW procedure.

Re: T4$now errors when run

Mike R Smith — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:23:10 GMT

No joy, same errors as before.

Re: T4$now errors when run

Hoff — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:03:43 GMT

T4 has had an occasional habit of blowing out downstream tools.

As a guess, you're past what T4 can itself deal with here.

Ring up HP. (It looks to be a compact reproducer, too.)

IIRC, MONITOR can select data from a recording file for inclusion in a (smaller) output file; to use MONITOR to reduce the quantity of the performance data. Then feed the results into T4.

Re: T4$now errors when run

Mike R Smith — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:20:52 GMT

T4 email address bounced. I contacted HP but this is not a supported product. What I finally ended up doing after reviewing the command tables was to edit out the t4$now.com file and remove the parameter for disks from the T4extr line. It works but all the data from a normal T4 pull is not there.

Re: T4$now errors when run

Mike R Smith — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:22:04 GMT

I finally had to adjust T4 to handle the number of storage units on this cluster. Maybe if I get the source code I can do more to actually fix this limitation.

Re: T4$now errors when run

Martin Vorlaender — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:10:57 GMT

Mike,

try to contact Steve Liemann via www.trendsthatmatter.com with this issue. IIRC, he was one of the guys behind t4@hp.com when he was with HP.

He's not a programmer, but he sure knows who is.

cu,
Martin