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# 8  
Old 06-11-2019
bakunin, all very good points.
Still thinking single user mode if they can't get control of the console would be beneficial at least from a troubleshooting standpoint. Would let them see adapters, if any...See below:


Something else that concerned me from the boot log was this line:
Code:
The Service Request Number is B7006970: I/O subsystem (hub, bridge, bus) Unrecovered Error, general

I looked that up and that's coming out to be a PCI host bridge failure message. Likely the system doesn't see its adapters at all. I might be off, and my IBMer isn't available to confirm for me. Depending on whats causing the failure message, you may need a system backplane or I/O backplane replacement. Which would explain why your direct attached console isn't working.


There's other PCI I/O adapters that can cause that error, however I feel such efforts might be beyond the scope of this forum, and you'd best be off finding a 3rd party support or be willing to shell out some insane dollar amount to IBM for service.
# 9  
Old 06-11-2019
@RecoveryOne: You are right, this looks like a HW problem. Still, as long as we know nothing about his environment (is this an LPAR? is in an unvirtualised system? Is there a VIOS? had it errors during boot? ...) we have no chance of contributing anything purposeful to this problem.

To add to his problems: he has a HACMP cluster running and this will not recover itself from a "script error" like the one it has already run into. You need to use HACMP-recovery-procedures to get out of this state and this needs a sound understanding of how HACMP (=SystemMirror, =PowerHA) works. It is difficult to troubleshoot something as complex as a cluster over the internet and in fact it is bordering on criminal to have someone who is obviously way out of his league to administrate a system deemed valuable and mission-critical enough to warrant a (rather costly) HA-solution. This is like buying a Formula-One racing car and setting a 5-year-old behind the steering wheel.

@trevian3969: sorry, if this sounds like a personal attack - it is not! But from the phrasing of your questions i can tell that you never had any in-depth experience with AIX at all and a system with HACMP installed is most likely too valuable (otherwise why bother with high-availability at all?) to be administrated by someone who has no working experience with the system at all. You are attempting things even some seasoned AIX administrators would be uncomfortable with. Any newbie would be in exact the same situation as you are now.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 10  
Old 06-11-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by bakunin

To add to his problems: he has a HACMP cluster running and this will not recover itself from a "script error" like the one it has already run into. You need to use HACMP-recovery-procedures to get out of this state and this needs a sound understanding of how HACMP (=SystemMirror, =PowerHA) works. It is difficult to troubleshoot something as complex as a cluster over the internet and in fact it is bordering on criminal to have someone who is obviously way out of his league to administrate a system deemed valuable and mission-critical enough to warrant a (rather costly) HA-solution. This is like buying a Formula-One racing car and setting a 5-year-old behind the steering wheel.

bakunin

Yeah, the good news is depending on the other node the cluster should be up but unstable. And one can rebuild/reload and bring in a node to the cluster. Not a fun task by any means. That said, yes troubleshooting hacmp via forums would be a nightmare. I was hoping at the very least to help them get the system up enough to see what was going on.



@trevian3969:
Depending on the criticality of this system, and to parrot what bakunin said it very likely will be worth while to look at upgrading to something newer. If you have a good IBM rep, see if they can get you a discount on some AIX classes with purchase of new frames. The redbooks for HACMP, and AIX are also a wealth of knowledge. When I joined the sysadm team to work with AIX I knew next to nothing about it, other than it was COOL!. Still haven't been to an official class, but man pages, redbooks sites like this place here and other blogs of AIX have been indispensable to me. Sadly, I feel my coming into AIX may have been 10 years too late for all the hot sysadm stuff! Smilie


Feel free to post what questions you may have however. And I'll still try to help out as much as I can where I can, just keep in mind that in the end it's your environment. I don't know how your environment is setup. The OS is way out of date, and all that other fun stuff right? I figure if nothing else, bakunin smack me for being wrong! Hey, I still have a lot to learn!



Take care and good luck!
# 11  
Old 06-13-2019
Hi bakunin
You are right, our systems is very old, but for our boss this system could work at least one more year. This servers are 12 years old, and some of their parts we buy it as refurbished....

As you said there is a problems with the zoning. How can I check this,?
I know is a dummy question, but Im new in this area.

Thanks again
# 12  
Old 06-13-2019
trevian,


You'll need to be able to get a console that you are able to use to get the wwn's from the adapters. The problem that I see, and posted about above, is that your PCI bus appears to have a fault. So it is very likely AIX won't be able to see your adapters to get the zoning information. IBM or someone with intimate knowledge of AIX/Power error codes could really decode the full errpt to know what else needs to be replaced on this frame.
# 13  
Old 06-14-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by trevian3969
As you said there is a problems with the zoning. How can I check this,?
I know is a dummy question, but Im new in this area.
Not at all, in fact this is a very good question. Alas, one which can't be answered, because the zoning isn't done on the system.

Here is a general explanation about what "zoning" is

If you still have questions, just ask.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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