Hardware failures

[B V B Kumar]

Hi All,

How to find hardware failure messages or any logfile in HP-UX 11.23 like disk failures, power supply unit failures.

regards
Kumar

[Torsten.]

You should check the syslog and root's email account first for any diagnostic related notifications.

[Prashanth Waugh]

Hi ,

First check the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

for any error or failure

Regards
atul

[Prashanth Waugh]

Hi,

can you tell me what type of hardware failure means disk ,power supply,..etc

Reagrds
Atul

[B V B Kumar]

Thanks for reply.

Any specific string to search in the syslog.log.
This file is very big file.


regards
Kumar

[Vihang. · Accepted solution]

Hi Kumar,

Normally you would see an "EMS Event Notification" in your syslog incase of any hardware failures. This even will also have a command which you can run to get the details of the hardware failure. Or else, you can check the /var/opt/resmon/log/event.log file.


Regards,
Vihang.

[Prashanth Waugh]

Hi ,

Suppose the problem will occur today then

# view syslog.log then it will open the file
use ur vi editor skill.
/Aug 13 or
/error or
/failure
search these strings in syslog.log

Check all todays log.
Or
u can grep error or failure in syslog.log

Regards
atul

[Torsten.]

You can also check the system management homepage for any "degraded" items:

http://:2301

[B V B Kumar]

Hi,

Actually we are impleementing HP OV operations for server monitoring and i have to do hardware monitoring also. If any specific entries for hardware failures in logfiles, i can sent those events to system admin for trobleshooting.

regards
Kumar

[OldSchool]

"Normally you would see an "EMS Event Notification" in your syslog"

well...yes...if you actually installed EMS that is.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Those port 2301 services work well for HP-UX.

I like EMS.

Also grep /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for lbolt

That's a good indicator of disk trouble.

SEP

[candlejack]

also might want to search for the word "POWERFAILED" in syslog.

dmesg is also useful

[Grayh]

THE BEST WAY TO FIND OUT H/W FAILURES:-

Log on to MP/GSP and collect the logs from there:-

Loging MP LAN, then execute the below commands:-
MP IP address

MP>CM

MP:CM>ls --------> lan status

U did not menson which HP-UX box Ur using (Cellboard based)?

MP:CM>sysrev --------> system firmware version

MP:CM>pe ---------> system power option (Cellboard based)

MP:CM>pc ----------> system power option (non cellboard based)

MP:CM>cp ---------> Cabinet Parts
MP:CM>ps ---------> power status

MP:CM> pe

This command controls power enable to a hardware device.

You can also obtain the h/w failures by decoding the chasis codes from the following logs:-

MP>CM>SL(Serial Logs)
MP>CM>fpl(Forward process logs)

DMV

[prasadb]

hello kumar,

you may check event.log at
path :/var/opt/resmon/log


it will show h/w failure messages if any

Best Luck