I removed several disks from my system using vgreduce etc. and I now get messages daily that those disks are not available. How do I tell EMS that they are gone?
Might be a more graceful way to do this, but this basically forces the software to rebuild its device list. I had opened a call a while back and was told there was no way to force it to prune devices, this may have changed but I know the above procedure works.
You can verify the difference by doing the following before and after:
Stopping and restarting EMS had no effect. After further investigation, I noticed that an ioscan is still showing the disks, though with the NO_HW tag. From other posts about ioscan I think the problem will go away after a reboot, which I will not be doing for some time. Thanks
You could try and remove the hardware path using the 'rmsf' command instead of just the device files. Say you had a controller with four disks attached, you could remove the whole path from the controller down. If this doesn't work, only a reboot will.
Although this is an old post I figured a would respond as I have been researching this most of today and all responses in all threads have not solved the issue. The resolution that worked for me was.......
Execute stm then remap the system. This will remove all disks that no longer exist on the system. It updates the /var/stm/data/psm_data file and you no longer will receive the bogus EMS messages for removed disks. This also beats entering the hw addresses in the exclude file as you will have to remember to edit the file again if the disks are ever re-added..
EMS still has alot of bugs, alot, alot, alot, but it has been usefull in notifying us for real errors as well. Especially beings predictive is being tossed to the wolves as well.
