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NEC Storage Manager
Messages Handbook
IS010-12E
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© NEC Corporation 2001-2004 No part of the contents of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without permission of NEC Corporation. The contents of this book may be modified without notice in the future.
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Preface This manual explains messages handled by NEC Storage Manager. The messages are listed in the order of message IDs. Refer to the “NEC Storage Manager Manual Guide” (IS901) for the overview of the NEC Storage and the related manuals. Remarks 1. This manual explains functions implemented by the following program products: • NEC Storage Manager and NEC Storage BaseProduct • NEC Storage AccessControl • NEC Storage PerformanceMonitor • NEC Storage PerformanceOptimizer • NEC
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5. The following descriptions in the text of this manual refer to the corresponding manuals. Description Corresponding Manual User's Manual (UNIX) NEC Storage Manager User's Manual (UNIX) (IS001) User's Manual NEC Storage Manager User's Manual (IS004) Data Replication User's Manual NEC Storage Data Replication User's Manual (Function Guide) (IS015) (Function Guide) Data Replication User's Manual NEC Storage Data Replication User's Manual (Installation and Operation Guide for Windows) (I
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Contents Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations ..................................................................................................................1 1.1 Message Classification ................................................................................................................................................3 1.2 Message Output Destinations.............................................................................................................................
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Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations The Storage Manager outputs the information, which is required for maintenance and operation of a disk array and the Storage Manager, to log files of the console/terminal and the management server. The log files to which a message is output are syslog, event log, and operation log. The message describes information that indicates events to be reported to an administrator, such as system state transitio
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Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations Management server Output to syslog (UNIX) or event log (Windows) Syslog or event log Storage Manager Operation log Output to console/terminal Disk array Console/Terminal Output to ESMPRO Manager when ESMPRO Business Agent installed (only for Windows) server Output to console/terminal Output to syslog (UNIX) or event log (Windows) Syslog or event log ReplicationControl Operation log Figure 1-1 Overview of Message Output 2
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Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations 1.1 Message Classification 1.1 Message Classification 1.1 Message Classification A message classification is assigned to a message, according to its level of urgency. Messages are classified into the following four classifications, in the order of urgency: “ERROR”, “WARNING”, “NOTICE”, and “INFO”. A message classification is also referred to as a message level. Meanings of the messages are as follows: ERROR: Error message This message i
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Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations 1.2 Message Output Destinations 1.2 Message Output Destinations 1.2 Message Output Destinations The output destinations of messages depend on functions and OS to be used. Output destinations are the console/terminal, operation log, syslog, event log, and ESMPRO Manager. Message output destinations are described as follows: Console/Terminal A console is a monitoring terminal that is directly connected to the monitoring server of the iSM.
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Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations syslog This is output on UNIX system. Together with the messages output by UNIX, the messages output from iSM and ReplicationControl are recorded. The output format depends on the OS (HP-UX or Solaris). Output/no output or output destinations of messages, which is output to syslog, can be specified by modifying descriptions for type (level) and function (facility) in OS settings file (/etc/syslog.conf). Note 1: On Solaris system, a message
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Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations 1.3 Message Output Format 1.3 Message Output Format 1.3 Message Output Format This section describes the message output format and the errno output rule. For details on the message text, refer to Chapter 2 “Message List”. The following shows the output format of a message: Mon Date hh:mm:ss hhhhhh ffffffff :mmmmmm cccccccc : iSMyyyyy : Message body Mon Date : Month and date hh:mm:ss : Time hhhhhh : Host name ffffffff : Function identifi
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Chapter 1 Messages and Output Destinations UNIX system 1. A defined value is output as is. 7
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Chapter 2 Message List Chapter 2 Message List 2.1 Interpretation of Message List 2.1 Interpretation of Message List 2.1 Interpretation of Message List 2.2 “Message List” describes the messages in the order of message IDs. The message are described in the following format: iSMxxxxx: AAAAA, Message ID (iSMxxxxx) and message body (AAAAA,) are described. Descriptions using parentheses such as and indicate that parameter values are not fixe
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Chapter 2 Message List 2.2 Message List 2.2 Message List 2.2 Message List iSM01000 ∼ iSM01001: Storage Manager has started [Classification] INFO [Explanation] It shows that iSM server has started. For Windows, this message is target of ESMPRO Manager Report. [Measures] Unnecessary iSM01002: Storage Manager is ready [Classification] INFO [Explanation] It shows that iSM server has become capable of operation. For Windows, this message is target of ESMPRO Manager Repo
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Chapter 2 Message List iSM01004: Storage Manager has terminated emergency [Classification] WARNING [Explanation] Emergency shutdown of iSM server. This message is output in the iSM server abort processing when iSMsvr stop -e is executed or the system is shut down. This message is output on UNIX system. [Measures] Unnecessary iSM01005: Command is entered.command= [Classification] INFO [Explanation] It shows that a command is entered. This message is output on U
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Chapter 2 Message List iSM01010: Storage Manager has restarted [Classification] INFO [Explanation] It shows that the iSM server is restarted. For Windows, this message is target of ESMPRO Manager Report. [Measures] Unnecessary iSM01011: has restarted [Classification] INFO [Explanation] It shows that a process indicated with aaa...a is restarted. For Windows, this message is target of ESMPRO Manager Report. aaa...a : Process name [Measures] Unnecessary
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Chapter 2 Message List iSM01101: The function is not available. function= [Classification] WARNING [Explanation] The function indicated with aaa...a has become unavailable. iSM server will block the function. aaa...a : Unavailable function PerformanceMonitor : Performance monitoring function ReplicationControl : Replication control function msgdrv : Event link function config GUI : Configuration setting GUI function ALIVEmail : ALIVEmail function PerformanceOptimizer :
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Chapter 2 Message List iSM01103: Socket access failed. process= func= [errno=|error=] detail= [Classification] NOTICE [Explanation] Error has occurred in the socket communication between the processes indicated with aaa...a and the main process. This error occurs when the process has stopped or the file environment of iSM Server’s socket path (/opt/iSMsvr/etc/sock) is in an incorrect status. aaa...a : Process name bbb...b : Socket system f
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Chapter 2 Message List iSM01105: File access failed. file= func= errno= detail= [Classification] NOTICE [Explanation] It shows that an error has occurred in accessing the file indicated with aaa...a. In this message case, the environment of environment definition file (/etc/iSMsvr/iSMsvr.conf) or control file (files under /opt/iSMsvr/etc.) may be in an incorrect status. aaa...a : File path name bbb...b : File system function name ccc : Error number
