Hey,

I've got a resolution for #5, with the empty slots and allocating
volumes not physically in the silo.  It appears in all the
troubleshooting and what not over the last week, that some volumes got
removed from the silo without networker knowing about it.  You used to
be able to clean this up by just nsrjb -x -T <volser>.  Now, with the
new nsrlcpd process, it holds its own view of what is in the silo, and
if volume removal doesn't happen in the right sequence nsrlcpd gets out
of sync with acsls/libstation.  End of the day, I just needed to
disable/enable the silo in NMC and that stops and restarts the nsrlcpd
process which causes it to get fresh info from acsls/libstation.  This
resolution didn't cause any disruption to my environment.

Thanks,

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Joel Fisher
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:02 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] problems from upgrade from 7.2.2 to 7.4.3

Hey Guys,

 

Last Thursday I upgrade from 7.2.2 to 7.4.3. It has been less than
smooth so far.

 

It initial seemed to go flawlessly, but Monday morning nsrd crashed and
would not stay running.  EMC provided a hotfixed nsrd that seems to have
resolved that problem, but I have some other less critical problems that
I was wondering if you guys have seen.

 

1)      Adv_file devices keep randomly unmounting.  I've seen in the
archives people having issues with RO devices, but in my case it is any
device RW or RO.  There isn't any message any the log about the dismount
just that it notifies me if it needs it mounted.

2)      'Owner notification' either doesn't work, or the functionality
has changed.  My existing scripts don't work with it.  For
troubleshooting, I've made a very simple script that basically takes
stdin and writes it to a file.  That doesn't work either.

3)      Media that is labeled and previously working will not mount.
I'll get a message about "volume xxxxxx(volid xxxxxxxxxxx) NOT in media
index".  But then after awhile it will mount, after no intervention on
my part.  This is happening on tapes within a silo and on my adv_file
type devices that keep unmounting.  May be related to the first problem.

4)      Many, not all, savegroups are not finishing and the jobs that
are just hanging out are typically index saves.

5)      Nsrjb shows empty slots... which in not normal for an acsls
silo.  It allows me to allocate the "volumes" in those slots, but the
volumes are not actually in the silo.  In previous releases, a volume
could not be allocated to a silo unless in was physically in the silo.
I'm assuming this is a bug not a design change.

 

Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

FYI... I do have a case open with EMC to address them.

 

Thanks!

 

Joel


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