Dave Hitz hitz@netapp.com writes:
I also have a request. Please turn on autosupport. That's extremely important to us for two reasons:
Quick question: once upon a time, machine-gone-kablooey autosupport mail was only sent when a filer booted. It was the Yoda scenario ("there is no retry, only do!"). If something went awry in that sending, the message was just dropped on the floor, no queuing, no retrying.
We had a situation where our filer bounced twice, but on the first return to service it didn't have good net (or NIS, or name resolution, can't recall which). This meant that the first "here's the problem" mail never got to the mothership, but the "just booted, everything is peachy" mail did. Does the crash autosupport facility do anything more sophisticated these days? (he asks, because his filer hasn't crashed in many moons...).
Thanks. Respectfully, David N. Blank-Edelman Director of Technology College of Computer Science Northeastern University