Warning during Package Verification

[Faizer Jameel]

Hi Gurus
I get the following message when I am doing the cmcheckconf -P pkg.conf
Begin package verification...
Warning: The disk at /dev/dsk/c2t2d0 on node testserv2 does not have an ID, or a disk
label.
Warning: Disks which do not have IDs cannot be included in the topology descript
ion.
Use pvcreate(1M) to initialize a disk for LVM or,
use vxdiskadm(1M) to initialize a disk for VxVM.
Warning: No additional packages can be added to this cluster.

If I do an ioscan I get the following:

disk 20 0/0/2/0.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP DVD-ROM 305
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0
Please advise

[Rita C Workman]

Well, is this a disk that was already in the package ? or is this just a disk that someone shouldn't be included and you just need to clean up

You can see what vgid (if any) is now associated to that disk by doing:
echo "0x2008?4D"| adb /dev/dsk/c2t2d0

...run the command for the problem disk and another disk in that vg. Confirm that the last column (5th I think) is the same number. That number is the vgid. If it's different that's the problem...
I had this happen once and HP helped me get it fixed. If this is the case, maybe I could find my old notes and pass it on..

Rgrds,
Rita

[Geoff Wild]

You can ignore the disk message - the issue you have is - No additional packages can be added to this cluster.

This means "MAX_CONFIGURED_PACKAGES" is set to the same number as already configured packages...

You will have to re-generate your cluster - do a cmgetconf > mycluster.new.ascii

Increase "MAX_CONFIGURED_PACKAGES", then cmapplyconf it...

Rgds...Geoff

[Faizer Jameel]

The disk as mentioned is a cdrom.
I did the check and the numbers are efry different.

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

That is correct - the disk is a cdrom - the cmcheckconf doesn't have the smarts to determine that - so it just gives you a warning for all disks that havn't been initialized....don't worry about that warning....

Rgds...Geoff

[melvyn burnard]

As you say, this is just a warning. Serviceguard tries to verify whether the discs it can see already belong to an LVM VG or a VxVM DG, so that they could be possible candidates for shared disks. As a CDROM cannot be pvcreated, it has no label on it, so you ar esimply warned that this is the case. The same would occur for any normal disk that had no "label" on it.

The warning about "no more packages" is also to inform you that you have reached the maximum number of packages configured that you have specified in your cluster binary. If you wish to add another package, you will have to halt the cluster, increase that parameter, and reapply the cluster binary. If not, then again it is just a warning, so ignore it

[Faizer Jameel]

Thanks everyone..Rita I would hace appreciated if you could have passed the document you had.
Well I ignored as advised and it was fine.

Thanks all round....
Faizer