Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Changing an NIS slave server to a client is a three-part process: 1. Edit the ypservers map on your NIS master, removing the defunct slave from the list of servers. 2. on the NIS slave, remove NIS configuration 3. Convert the NIS slave as NIS client...
Blog for Unix Admin / Linux Disk Management
by Ramdev · Published May 18, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Dynamically adding LUN’s to Qlogic HBA on Linux: 1. Make sure that newly configured LUN’s are properly configured and mapped to correct HBA’s 2. If you have installed SANsurfer GUI/CLI, make sure newly added LUN’s are visible from these tools
Blog for Unix Admin / Linux Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published May 18, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Collect the following information when a platform reports SCSI disk errors: The following files: /var/log/messages* The output from the following commands: /sbin/fdisk -l /bin/cat /proc/scsi/scsi /bin/dmesg
Blog for Unix Admin / VCS Migrations / VCS Troubleshooting / VCS Upgrades / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / Veritas Cluster Services
by Ramdev · Published May 18, 2011 · Last modified August 5, 2016
VCS facing the following Issue : Service group not failing over when server rebooted. Error messages in /var/adm/messages file: Mar 18 15:26:48 p-vhs-ntt01b-d2 gab: [ID 316943 kern.notice] GAB INFO V-15-1-20036 Port a gen ef2e0f membership 01 Mar 18 15:26:48 p-vhs-ntt01b-d2 gab: [ID 608499 kern.notice] GAB INFO...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 18, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
To add a slave server to an existing NIS domain do the following: 1. become root on master 2. cd /var/yp/`domainname` 3. /usr/etc/yp/makedbm -u ypservers > /tmp/tempfile 4. vi /tmp/tempfileAdd the new slave servers name on a new line twice in a row on the same...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management
by Ramdev · Published May 18, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Create a new DiskSuite configuration which points to the data correctly without requiring a backup & restore. There are occasions you wish to physically move disks to a new controller or to a new host (at which point, the device names may change).
This article will help you to configure RSC console for SUN based machines .. To use the RSC card the system administrator needs to redirect the console to the RSC. Certain faults are undiagnosable if the console log at the time of failure is not captured....
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Storage Configs for Unixadmin / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning
by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011 · Last modified August 22, 2015
VERITAS Volume Manager 3.x/4.x: Unable to Recognize Newly-Added Disks. A few reasons why this occurs: The command vxdctl enable should be run, to rescan the host for any newly-added disks.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011
This post will help to troubleshoot the DMP having following Symptoms – Path offline – Path doesn’t failover – Can’t see device path
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011
The steps below will help confirm that STMS is being used and both paths are seen. 1. Validate that STMS is enabled: Check that the mpxio-disable parameter is set to “no”. *Solaris[TM] 7,8,9 — check /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf *Solaris[TM] 10 only — /kernel/drv/fp.conf Example: mpxio-disable=”no”; If mpxio-disable is...
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