Managing Serviceguard 13th Edition, February 2007

Troubleshooting Your Cluster
Troubleshooting Approaches
Chapter 8 359
IPv6:
Name Mtu Address/Prefix Ipkts Opkts
lan1* 1500 none 0 0
lo0 4136 ::1/128 10690 10690
Reviewing the System Log File
Messages from the Cluster Manager and Package Manager are written
to the system log file. The default location of the log file is
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log. Also, package-related messages are
logged into the package log file. The package log file is located in the
package directory, by default. You can use a text editor, such as vi, or the
more command to view the log file for historical information on your
cluster.
It is always a good idea to review the syslog.log file on each of the
nodes in the cluster when troubleshooting cluster problems.
This log provides information on the following:
• Commands executed and their outcome.
• Major cluster events which may, or may not, be errors.
• Cluster status information.
NOTE Many other products running on HP-UX in addition to Serviceguard use
the syslog.log file to save messages. The HP-UX System Administrator’s
Guide provides additional information on using the system log.
Sample System Log Entries
The following entries from the file /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log show
a package that failed to run due to a problem in the pkg5_run script. You
would look at the pkg5_run.log for details.
Dec 14 14:33:48 star04 cmcld[2048]: Starting cluster management protocols.
Dec 14 14:33:48 star04 cmcld[2048]: Attempting to form a new cluster
Dec 14 14:33:53 star04 cmcld[2048]: 3 nodes have formed a new cluster
Dec 14 14:33:53 star04 cmcld[2048]: The new active cluster membership is:
star04(id=1) , star05(id=2), star06(id=3)
Dec 14 17:33:53 star04 cmlvmd[2049]: Clvmd initialized successfully.
Dec 14 14:34:44 star04 CM-CMD[2054]: cmrunpkg -v pkg5