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Operating Systems AIX PowerHA(HACMP) full vg loss - cluster hangs on release_vg_fs event Post 302792615 by MichaelFelt on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 04:57:49 PM
Old 04-10-2013
Well, you need to differentiate between between full SAN loss (no nodes can see disks) and failure of only one node seeing disk.

It has been years since I have debugged HACMP scripts - there have been a lot of additions to what is checked, but at it's core the problem is that a resource has gone done - not a topology element - so it is up to the application stop script to make sure the resources are released before "standard processing" continues.

To have this fully automated you would need to write a recovery script that HACMP could call - as config_too_long - means HACMP does not see this as an error.

What I would look for is using the application monitoring abilities to see that the application is down and doing a verification of the resources on the "active" node.

If I recall correctly, the steps PowerHa takes is:
1) application stop - key here is that there are no open files on file system so that following step(s) that
2) release the resources (i.e. 2a) unmount filesystems and 2b) varyoffvg volume group) can succeed.

Again, config_too_long means the script is not exiting with any status - so it is not an error. It is hanging. I would have to look at both the current script as well as application monitoring to determine if application monitoring could inject a new action by the cluster manager to forcibly unmount the filesystems. I am guessing that is not a possibility.

Comment: I would be nervous to be mixing vSCSI and NPIV within a resource group. No real issues with a mix in the cluster, but real concerns when mixing technologies for a single resource in a resource group.

Hope this helps you advance your testing! Good diligence!
 

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cmstartres(1m)															    cmstartres(1m)

NAME
cmstartres - starts resource monitoring on the local node for an EMS resource that is configured in a Serviceguard package. SYNOPSIS
cmstartres [-v] [-u] -p package_name resource_name DESCRIPTION
cmstartres starts resource monitoring for an EMS resource on the local node. This resource must be configured in the specified pack- age_name. To start a resource monitoring for an EMS resource in the package, a user must either be superuser(UID=0), or have an access policy of FULL_ADMIN allowed in the cluster configuration file. See access policy in cmquerycl(1m) or cmmakepkg(1m). Options cmstartres supports the following options. -v Verbose output will be displayed. -u Wait for the EMS resource to be available before starting resource monitoring. -p package_name The name of the package where the EMS resource is configured in. This is a required parameter. resource_name Name of the EMS resource to start resource monitoring for. This resource must be configured in the specified pack- age_name. This is a required parameter. RETURN VALUE
cmstartres returns the following values: 0 Successful completion. 1 Command failed. EXAMPLES
To start resource monitoring for the EMS resource /net/interfaces/lan/status/lan0 for package pkgA, do the following: cmstartres -u -p pkgA /net/interfaces/lan/status/lan0 AUTHOR
cmstartres was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
cmstopres(1m), cmquerycl(1m), cmmakepkg(1m). Requires Optional Serviceguard Software cmstartres(1m)
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