Somewhat off topic but I believe he asked here because he uses the
server for NBU. I'm with you in thinking it rather unlikely NBU is the
cause of slow boots.
There is a mailing list for HP-UX Administration:
To subscribe/unsubscribe to that list, email majordomo at dutchworks.nl
Posts go to: hpux-admin at dutchworks.nl
Archives: ftp.dutchworks.nl:/pub/digests/hpux-admin
<ftp.dutchworks.nl://pub/digests/hpux-admin> FTP, browse only)
http://www.dutchworks.nl/htbin/hpsysadmin (Web, >browse &
search)
Additionally there are online forums for HP-UX at http://itrc.hp.com
<http://itrc.hp.com/> .
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From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net]
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 5:28 AM
To: Jeff Lightner; Hampus Lind; ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000];
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....
Guys
This is slightly off topic of NBU, as it does not sound like this is the
problem.
But we do have a HP-UX with a SAN that takes AGES to boot.
One suggestion our HP-UX engineer suggested was to check if there is
trouble with an NFS mouth at boot time - it could be waiting for this to
take place. also, check the rc.log and/or if applicable syslog files.
this may give an indication where its getting stuck.
But its not veritas to blame here (from what I can see) and I am no unix
expert !
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
<mailto:Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net>
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com]
Sent: 12 October 2006 18:05
To: Hampus Lind; WEAVER, Simon; ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000];
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....
Of course it depends a lot on the age and class of the
equipment. My RP8420 with over 10 TB attached boots much faster than
one of my old N Class machines with only 2 TB attached. Also he says
"HP-UX" without mentioning version. 9x? 10x? 11? 11i?. Itanium box
or PA-RISC?
Many variables can affect this including how one has zoned
storage (assuming a SAN). I recall one of the original EMC Symmetrix
arrays to which we attached an HP-UX box (probably 10.20) took forever
to do initial boot and errored out for the load because it actually
scanned all the disk drives in the array not just the ones we were going
to use on the particular host via the SCSI connections we'd made.
________________________________
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hampus
Lind
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:04 PM
To: 'WEAVER, Simon'; 'ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000]';
veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....
Hi,
We are a large hpux customer. But I don't have any 10TB systems
yet... But almost!! One of our media server have about 6 TB and I
haven't seen any time delay in boot time after adding more disk to the
system. The boot time now is the same as it was before the 6 TB.
If you look at the console when then server boots, what does it
delay/hang on? I would also recommend you to look at itrc.hp.com (if you
have a user). Often problem with DNS/NIS causes long boot time..
Hampus Lind
Rikspolisstyrelsen
National Police Board
Tel dir: +46 (0)8 - 401 99 43
Tel mob: +46 (0)70 - 217 92 66
E-mail: hampus.lind at rps.police.se
-----Original Message-----
From: ZIMMER, RANDY K [AG/1000]
[mailto:randy.k.zimmer at monsanto.com]
Sent: 11 October 2006 15:43
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] HP-UX Media Server to boot up....
I have a question for the group. I have an HP-UX Media
Server with 10TB of disk storage attached to the SAN. When we reboot
this system it can take up to 90 minutes for it to come up. Is anybody
out there experiencing this same issue? If so, Is there anything that
can be done to speed this process up?
Thanks,
Randy Zimmer
Unix System Administrator
Monsanto Enterprise Infrastructure Team
Office: 314-694-3109
Pager: 314-294-7966
rkzimm at monsanto.com
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