Hi all,
We're got a F740 running 5.3.4 and we're getting endlessly repeating messages in the logs that look like this:
Sun Apr 16 03:00:00 EST [statd]: *** NOTICE *** Configuration error on disk storage shelf attached to slot 7. Please check drive placement. Sun Apr 16 03:07:07 EST [statd]: *** NOTICE *** Configuration error previously reported on disk storage shelf attached to slot 7 has been corrected. Sun Apr 16 03:18:52 EST [ses_admin]: No more valid paths to Enclosure Services in shelf 1 on host adapter 7.
I've filed a call with NetApp, but no response yet. Any clues on what's happening here?
Thanks, John x27548
We're got a F740 running 5.3.4 and we're getting endlessly repeating messages in the logs that look like this:
Sun Apr 16 03:00:00 EST [statd]: *** NOTICE *** Configuration error on disk storage shelf attached to slot 7. Please check drive placement. Sun Apr 16 03:07:07 EST [statd]: *** NOTICE *** Configuration error previously reported on disk storage shelf attached to slot 7 has been corrected. Sun Apr 16 03:18:52 EST [ses_admin]: No more valid paths to Enclosure Services in shelf 1 on host adapter 7.
You need to have a live disk in both slots 3 and 4 of the shelf. Do you have partially filled out shelves, or a dead disk? Move disks around or replace the deader.
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John> We're got a F740 running 5.3.4 and we're getting endlessly John> repeating messages in the logs that look like this:
John> Sun Apr 16 03:00:00 EST [statd]: *** NOTICE *** Configuration error on disk storage shelf attached to slot 7. Please check drive placement. John> Sun Apr 16 03:07:07 EST [statd]: *** NOTICE *** Configuration error previously reported on disk storage shelf attached to slot 7 has been corrected. John> Sun Apr 16 03:18:52 EST [ses_admin]: No more valid paths to Enclosure Services in shelf 1 on host adapter 7.
John> I've filed a call with NetApp, but no response yet. Any clues John> on what's happening here?
I've gotten some good replies from people, but to clarify the system config, it's got two FC9 shelves, each with seven 36Gb disks. So it's starting to look like it's a potentially bad shelf that's going to fail soon. Or maybe the cable between the shelves. Time to get NetApp in to fix this, since it's only a month or two old.
Thanks for all the help!
John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 john.stoffel@ascend.com - http://www.ascend.com
We're looking at getting a jukebox with 2 DLT7000s to hookup directly to two large Netapps. We would run Budtool on a Sun on the network. My understanding is, one Netapp CAN control the robotic arm/barcode reader, etc, to load tapes in its drive and the other one's drive..is this correct? Second question..If we have a third Netapp, it can be dumped through the network to one of the local attached drives, correct? My final question -- we have a number of Suns as well. Can they be dumped through the network, using NDMP or anything else, to the locally attached tape drive of a Netapp? Like I said I would be using Budtool, but I don't recall if Budtool has an NDMP client that I would need to run on the Suns, or how it would work...if it even would work. It would be a bummer to have to dedicate a drive to being locally attached to the Sun w/ Budtool, which would be necessary if only the Sun could control the robotic, OR if only the Sun could remotely backup the other Suns. (This is our setup currently, but we are looking at options for new hardware and a better setup for back ups, where we are not dumping through the network for everything....) Thanks in advance...
Justin Acklin
Justin,
I can't speak to the effectiveness of the configuration you describe, but I can tell you what we're running here. We have BudTool running on a Sun (Solaris-2.6/SPARC), with the Sun controlling the robotics, and with three of the four tape drives connected to the Sun. The third tape drive is connected to our NetApp.
BudTool loads the appropriate tape into the NetApp's drive, and then uses NDMP to tell the NetApp to back itself up to its locally-attached DLT7k. At the same time, it can tell pretty much any Unix machine, or any NetApp or other NDMP speaker to send its backup data back to the BudTool server (Sun) over the network. It all works here just fine. We even have the Intelliguard (Legato) NDMP server for WinNT on some of our NT systems, and back those guys up over the network to the jukebox, as well.
Whether it's best to ask the NetApp to control the jukebox, or connect some of the tape drives to the Sun BudTool server, will depend on your preference. Personally, I'd hate to suck up CPU and network bandwidth on a filer just to backup some Unix or even other NetApp systems, unless I had no choice. Keep in mind that licensing costs may play a part in your decision here, too. But BudTool should allow you to plug things together in many ways.
It remains to be seen whether a future NDMP-speaking Legato NetWorker will work as flexibly as BudTool does in our configuration.
Regards,
We're looking at getting a jukebox with 2 DLT7000s to hookup directly to two large Netapps. We would run Budtool on a Sun on the network. My understanding is, one Netapp CAN control the robotic arm/barcode reader, etc, to load tapes in its drive and the other one's drive..is this correct?
You get 5 NDMP connections with a NetApp. In our case we run 2 stackers off it: 1 connection for each of the robotics, 1 for each of the drives which leaves us with 1 NDMP connection left over.
Second question..If we have a third Netapp, it can be dumped through the network to one of the local attached drives, correct?
Yes, that will work.
My final question -- we have a number of Suns as well. Can they be dumped through the network, using NDMP or anything else, to the locally attached tape drive of a Netapp? Like I said I would be using Budtool, but I don't recall if
Works fine, we do it all the time with the NDMP client (we use the OSA one).
You do need to be aware that BudTool is going to EOL soon (we're getting dates of Jan 2001). We're looking at replacing it with Veritas NetBackup software. If it wasn't for the fact we want Mac, Netware, and a variety of other OSes we would probably go the route of Workstation Solutions (www.worksta.com)'s Quick Restore product. It looks the closest fit to BudTool.
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