DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM WARNING:

[prasadb]

Hello all,
I am getting this alert as mentioned in subject line, from one server.

I checked, even.log is not being updated at all.
System_Name:/var/opt/resmon/log:# ls -lrt
total 64
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 27 Apr 8 2009 api.log -> /etc/opt/resmon/log/api.log
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 30 Apr 8 2009 client.log -> /etc/opt/resmon/log/client.log
lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 33 Apr 8 2009 registrar.log -> /etc/opt/resmon/log/registrar.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4795 Apr 9 2009 event_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14962 Apr 9 2009 event.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3736 Apr 9 2009 rst.log
System_Name:/var/opt/resmon/log:#
System_Name:/var/opt/resmon/log:# date
Fri Dec 31 12:03:50 EET 2010

in syslog, I found this error.


Dec 31 04:57:24 System_Name diaglogd[1835]: The disk space required to write the MCA logs at /var/tombstones is lessthan 500MB. The space avaialble is may not be adequate for writing the MCA error logs.There might be a potential MCA error data loss if this condition persists.
Dec 31 05:12:00 System_Name su: + tty?? root-sfmdb

would you please like to advise anything on this ? :)


P.S : I got similar thread here at this link, but th error message is different.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/Excessive-I-O-warnings-in-Syslog/m-p/2647122#M36548

[rariasn]

Hi:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Administration/MCA-error-in-syslog-file/m-p/5157368#M455727

rgs,

[prasadb]

Hello rariasn,

thanks for reply.

as suggested in that threadh, I checked /var , but it looks it has sufficient space.

$ bdf /var
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 6291456 4558552 1721024 73% /var
$

[rariasn]

Hi:

# ll /var/tombstones/ts*|wc -l

Clean /var/tombstones directory

The processor hardware logs will be placed into the directory /var/tombstones. A snapshot of the processor hardware logs of up to the last 100 boots is kept. The files are named ts99, ts98, ..., ts0. The highest numbered ts# file is the latest log. With that in mind, all the files under /var/tombstones EXCEPT ts99 could be removed to free up space in /var. These files can be removed with the rm command.

rgs,

[cnb]

Which version of HP-UX are you using and the version of STM (OnluneDiag)?

# swlist | grep -i online

You may have to update STM/EMS if disk space is sufficient:

http://docs.hp.com/en/diag/archive/str_0606_1123.htm#changes_ui



Rgds,

[prasadb]

Hello all,

I could see, there are only two files in /var/tombstones and they look pretty small in size.

System_Name:/var/tombstones:# du -sk *
8 cpumap
8 mca20070821035509.000
System_Name:/var/tombstones:#
System_Name:/var/tombstones:#

&

System_Name:/var/tombstones:# uname -a;date
HP-UX esepdp02 B.11.23 U ia64 1200981935 unlimited-user license
Sat Jan 1 05:32:03 EET 2011

I am not sure about OnlineDiag version is old or new. please check it here

System_Name:/var/tombstones:# swlist | grep -i online
OnlineDiag B.11.23.09.05 HPUX 11.23 Support Tools Bundle, June 2007
System_Name:/var/tombstones:#

[Shibin_2]

Update with this latest version (December 2009 release).

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6191AAE