[Veritas-ha] FW: Problems with VCS 3.5 (AIX) - Mount Agent

[Cronin, John S]

Another thing to be aware of is mentioned in the VCS 3.5 for AIX Bundled
Agents Guide on page 28:

"NOTE: On AIX 5.1c systems, the fsck command cannot run on a
file system unless an entry for that file system is added to
/etc/filesystems. See "Listing File Systems in
/etc/filesystems on AIX 5.1c" on page 30 for more
information."

The entry on page 30 of the VCS 3.5 for AIX Bundled Agents Guide says:

"The Mount agent uses the fsck command to repair a corrupted
file system. In a cluster running AIX 5.1c, the fsck command
requires the /etc/filesystems file on each system to contain
entries for all VxFS and JFS file systems referenced by the
BlockDevice attribute of the Mount agent. The fsck -V vfstype
filesystemname command also does not work on AIX 5.1c systems
without a corresponding entry for the file system in
/etc/filesystems.

The crfs command automatically adds an entry for a new file
system to /etc/filesystems on the system it was created on;
the user must add entries to /etc/filesystems on all other
systems in the cluster. The mkfs command does not add an
entry for a new file system to /etc/filesystems; the user
must add entries to /etc/filesystems on all systems in the
cluster."

In my experience, this does NOT just apply to AIX 5.1c - I
have seen the same thing on AIX 5.2 ML3

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John Cronin
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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-ha-admin at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-ha-admin at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Duncan
Bradey
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:26 PM
To: Marc Barrette; VeritasHA
Subject: RE: [Veritas-ha] FW: Problems with VCS 3.5 (AIX) - Mount Agent


Hi Marc,

Check the FsckOpt is set to either "-y" or "-n" this is the most common
cause of VCS 3.5 Mount resources not being probed.  This is due to the
FsckOpt attribute being changed from an option attribute in 2.0 to a
required attribute in 3.5.

Regards,
Duncan





From: Marc Barrette [mailto:marcb at spectrumway.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2004 11:49 AM
To: VeritasHA
Subject: [Veritas-ha] FW: Problems with VCS 3.5 (AIX) - Mount Agent


Hi,  
 
I am having difficulty with the "Mount" resource for VCS 3.5 (AIX).  
 
Using Foundation Suite 3.4.2 for AIX, I have created a VxFS file system
on a VxVM volume.  
 
I have no problems getting VCS to on-line/off-line the disk group.
However, as soon as I "enable" the "Mount" resource to mount a file
system on the volume, I get a red question mark on the "Mount" resource
icon.  When I try to on-line the resource, I get the message: 
 
"Error: VCS: 10283: Resource has not been probed on system <my host
name>".  
 
Can anyone please explain why I'm getting that error?
 
Thanks,
 
Marc Barrette
(416)817-1745
 

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