VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Error Messages

Understanding Messages

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• Action: If a connection to SAL is desired, ensure that the correct version of SAL is

installed and conﬁgured correctly. Otherwise, suppress communication between vxassist

and SAL by adding the following line to the vxassist defaults ﬁle (usually

/etc/default/vxassist):

salcontact=no

V-5-1-4625

VxVM vxassist WARNING V-5-1-4625 SAL authentication failed...

• Description: The SAN Access Layer (SAL) rejects the credentials that are supplied by the

vxassist command.

• Action: If connection to SAL is desired, use the vxspcshow command to set a valid user

name and password. Otherwise, suppress communication between vxassist and SAL by

adding the following line to the vxassist defaults ﬁle (usually /etc/default/vxassist):

salcontact=no

V-5-1-5150

VxVM vxassist ERROR V-5-1-5150 Insufficient number of active snapshot

mirrors in snapshot_volume.

• Description: An attempt to snap back a speciﬁed number of snapshot mirrors to their

original volume failed.

• Action: Specify a number of snapshot mirrors less than or equal to the number in the

snapshot volume.

V-5-1-5160

VxVM vxplex ERROR V-5-1-5160 Plex plex not associated to a snapshot

volume.

• Description: An attempt was made to snap back a plex that is not from a snapshot volume.

• Action: Specify a plex from a snapshot volume.

V-5-1-5161

VxVM vxplex ERROR V-5-1-5161 Plex plex not attached.

• Description: An attempt was made to snap back a detached plex.

• Action: Reattach the snapshot plex to the snapshot volume.