Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

maximum size, the current transaction log file, translog, is renamed as the next

available historic log file, translog.number, where number is an integer from 1

up to the maximum number of historic log files that is currently defined, and a

new current log file is created.

A limited number of historic log files is preserved to avoid filling up the file system.

If the maximum number of historic log files has been reached, the oldest historic

log file is removed, and the current log file is renamed as that file.

Each log file contains a header that records the host name, host ID, and the date

and time that the log was created.

The following are sample entries from a transaction log file:

Fri Oct 17 13:23:30 2003

Clid = 23460, PID = 21240, Part = 0, Status = 0, Abort Reason = 0

DA_GET Disk_0

DISK_GET_ATTRS Disk_0

DISK_DISK_OP Disk_0 8

DEVNO_GET Disk_0

DANAME_GET 0x160045 0x160072

GET_ARRAYNAME Disk DISKS

CTLR_PTOLNAME 11-08-01

GET_ARRAYNAME Disk DISKS

CTLR_PTOLNAME 21-08-01

DROPPED <no request data>

The first line of each log entry is the time stamp of the transaction. The Clid field

corresponds to the client ID for the connection that the command opened to

vxconfigd. The PID field shows the process ID of the utility that is requesting the

operation. The Status and Abort Reason fields contain error codes if the

transaction does not complete normally. The remainder of the record shows the

data that was used in processing the transaction.

The client ID is the same as that recorded for the corresponding command line

in the command log.

See “Command logs” on page 49.

See “Association of command and transaction logs” on page 53.

If there is an error reading from the settings file, transaction logging switches to

its built-in default settings. This may mean, for example, that logging remains

enabled after being disabled using vxtranslog -m off command. If this happens,

use the vxtranslog utility to recreate the settings file, or restore the file from a

backup.

Logging commands and transactions

Transaction logs