health check query.

[aruns_s]

Hi gurus,


Are there any other "early warning" or "healthcheck" utilities available for the superdome?

[Anshumali]

Early Warning:
ISEE, HPOV

[aruns_s]

Thanks for the reply.
I was looking for some kind of system health check scripts to make sure that system is all okay before reboot.

[bixley]

Aruns,

Before reboot?
If you're running vpars then from another vpar you could check their status & boot options with vparstatus;

$ vparstatus
vparstatus: Warning: Cannot open default message catalog; using default messages.
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
triis016 Up Dyn,Manl,Nsr /stand/vmunix
triis060 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
triis036 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
triis137 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
triis003 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix
triis070 Up Dyn,Auto,Nsr /stand/vmunix

Then afterward run this again to check their boot progress. Its possible with vparreset to boot the hosts single user mode etc. Default arguements above should reboot to multi user mode.

[VK2COT]

Hello,

I understand your pain. Many times
I wondered about it myself. In the end,
I figured out I had to do it myself.

I got tired of not getting information I
needed to evaluate servers before I do
upgrades, or some other work. Typically,
whenever I go to customers' sites I get
answers like "Nobody has time to document
the servers..."

So, I sat down and wrote something I use
extensively on any HP-UX 11.11 (and above) server.

I have used my Perl script on about 200 different HP-UX based projects (including SuperDomes) for many customers.

Maybe you would like to check it out:

http://www.circlingcycle.com.au/Unix-sources/HP-UX-check-OAT.pl.txt

There are around 300 tests I run (including
some exotic ones).

So far, it has never failed me (except
a weird crash on an RX7620 server running
HP-UX 11.23 December 2007 patches
when I ran test

ioscan -eC disk

I think it was due to a bug in HBA driver
when I connected EVA SAN.

Otherwise, I am quite comfortable using it
regularly :)

Cheers,

VK2COT