[Veritas-bu] RE: Error 24 problems and trouble shooting

I will suggest to check the network related performance for this media
server, also maybe you want to look into the kernel to fine tune some
parameters.

Kevin


Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:28:28 -0600
From: Charles Ballowe <cballowe AT gmail DOT com>
Reply-To: Charles Ballowe <cballowe AT gmail DOT com>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Fwd: Error 24 problems and trouble shooting

It seems when this starts happening, I find at least one job who's
detailed status is many lines of "Error bpbrm could not write KEEPALIVE
to COMM_SOCK". Maybe that gives a clue to what's going on? I'm still
looking for thoughts on this.

-Charlie


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Charles Ballowe <cballowe AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:34:35 -0600
Subject: Error 24 problems and trouble shooting
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu


It seems that every couple of weeks one of my media servers will
completely forget how to talk to the world and every backup that tries
to use it will fail with a 24. Reboots can clear this, but there has to
be a better way.

A network sniff at the time a backup gets kicked off doesn't show any
traffic to the clients involved so I believe that the problem is on the
server. Outside of backup processes, I'm able to send traffic through
the interface, but backups stop working. In progress backups seem to
continue on to completion.

The environment is NB 5.1 MP2, many of the clients are still 4.5 of some
form. This problem seemed to exist in 4.5 as well. The servers are all
solaris, clients are a mix of unix and windows. Any idea where to look
to start troubleshooting this one?

-Charlie