ADSM-L

Re: Continuing problems with TCP/IP

2002-08-26 11:35:00
Subject: Re: Continuing problems with TCP/IP
From: "Mark D. Rodriguez" <mark AT MDRCONSULT DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:28:11 -0500
Jim Riddles wrote:

Hi all,
   I still haven't been able to solve my problems with TCP/IP and ADSM.
I have tried a variety of things, but my knowledge of this system is
limited and my knowledge of AIX is not much better.  Here are some
samples of the messages I have been getting.

A sample from my dsmerror.log:
08/21/02   09:07:31 sessOpen: Failure in communications open call.
rc: -450
08/21/02   09:07:31 ANS1473E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
for Shared Memory
08/21/02   14:56:06 sessOpen: Failure in communications open call.
rc: -450
08/21/02   14:56:06 ANS1473E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
for Shared Memory
08/21/02   15:45:30 sessOpen: Failure in communications open call.
rc: -450
08/21/02   15:45:30 ANS1473E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
for Shared Memory
08/22/02   15:26:17 sessOpen: Failure in communications open call.
rc: -450
08/22/02   15:26:17 ANS1473E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
for Shared Memory
08/22/02   16:45:04 sessOpen: Failure in communications open call.
rc: -450
08/22/02   16:45:04 ANS1473E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
for Shared Memory

Tal: # lppchk -v
lppchk:  The following filesets need to be installed or corrected to
bring
        the system to a consistent state:

 bos.adt.include 4.2.1.12                (not installed; requisite
fileset)

Tal: # dsmadmc
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 3, Release 1, Level 0.5
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1997, All Rights Reserved.

Enter your user id:  admin

ANS1235E Unknown system error
ANS8023E Unable to establish session with server.

ANS8002I Highest return code was -450.

Tal: # dsmserv
ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 15:38:49 on Jul 22 1999.

ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000
Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.40

Licensed Materials - Property of IBM

5765-C43 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 1998. All rights reserved.
U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure
restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.

ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt.
ANR0990I ADSM server restart-recovery in progress.
ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 152 megabytes.
ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 1360 megabytes.
ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress.
ANR9999D lvmread.c(393): Attempt to read invalid LOG logical page -256
(allocated = 38).
ANR9999D logwrite.c(465): Error 1 reading 16 pages from page -256,
offset 16.

/db is mounted automatically at boot, and the dsm01.log file is there.
I saw a command newlog in /usr/lpp/dsmserv/bin.  Would this command
create a new log file to use if this one is corrupted?  Also, as I said
in a previous post, I see no tcp/ip services running for dsm on 1500,
1510, 1580, etc...  Is there a command to start it, beyond `dsm &`?  I
am really stumped at this point, if anyone has any idead, please let me
know.
Thanks very much!

James Riddles
IT Technician
White Oak Printing
717-291-2222  ext. 228
jriddles AT whiteoaknet DOT com


Hi,

There are a lot of things that can be causing yo problems here, but the
one that sticks out the most for me is you are running a very old
version of "dsmserv" (the server code) in your post it says you are
running version :

ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000
Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.40

Is this the intended version?  Could you possibly be trying to run a new
version and have some old stuff left behind?  If you did an upgrade to a
newer version did you remember to uninstall the origianal first?

Another issue, you keep implying that this is a TCP/IP problem, but it
looks to be a shared memory problem.  Shared memory does TCP/IP
communications it just doesn't use a network card.  A couple things
about shared memory: it only connects from client code (dsm,dsmc,
dsmadmc, etc.) to the server code on the same physical machine,  the
option files must be set accordingly and remember the "SHMPort" must be
set to an unused port number.


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Regards,
Mark D. Rodriguez
President MDR Consulting, Inc.

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