Use the Detailed Error Analysis panel in the SAN Volume Controller Console to
display detailed information about a selected error.
Attributes
The
following attributes are displayed in the table:
- Node Identifier
- Displays the name of the node on which the error
or event occurred. If the event applies to a specific node, for example,
it indicates that the fibre-channel port of the node is not working,
then the node identifier is indicated here. If the event applies to
the cluster rather than to a node, for example, a license limit is
exceeded, then this field is set to 0.
- Object Type
- Displays the object type for the error or event.
The following object types can be displayed for the selected node:
- Node
- FlashCopy consistency group
- Metro Mirror or Global Mirror consistency group
- FlashCopy mapping
- Metro Mirror or Global Mirror mapping
- Cluster
- Device
- Managed disk (MDisk)
- MDisk group
- Virtual disk (VDisk)
- Space-efficient VDisk copy
- Host
- I/O group
- SCSI logical unit number (LUN)
- Quorum
- System board
- Processor
- Memory module
- Fan
- Fibre-channel card
- Front panel
- Port
- Adapter
- E-mail server
- Ethernet port
- Object ID
- Displays the system-assigned identifier for the object
type.
- Sequence Number
- Displays a number that identifies the event. Where appropriate,
sense data is returned to host systems references the sequence number.
You can click the sequence number to get detailed information on the
entry.
- Root Sequence Number
- Displays the sequence number of another log entry that enables
all errors that have a single source to be marked as fixed by a single
action.
- First Error Timestamp
- Displays the time when this error event was reported.
If events of a similar type are being coalesced together, so one
error event log record represents more than one event, this is the
time the first error event was logged.
- Last Error Timestamp
- Displays the time when the last instance of this
error event was recorded in the log.
- Error Count
- Displays the number of error events
coalesced into this error event log record.
- Type
- Displays the following types of errors:
- Error Cat 1
- These errors require a service action. A Cat 1 error normally
indicates a problem with a hardware component. A FRU or list of FRUs
are included with the trap data sent with the error record.
- Error Cat 2
- These errors require a service action. A Cat 2 error normally
indicates a configuration or environment problem rather than a hardware
problem.
- Transient error
- Errors of type transient have been recovered by an
error recovery procedure.
- Configuration event
- This type of event is from the configuration event log. This flag
is useful when displaying both logs in a seamless display as an aid
to relating logged error conditions to configuration events.
- Informational
- This type indicates that the log entry is an informational event.
Information events can be used to warn the user about an unexpected
configuration result or prompt a user to initiate further configuration
actions.
- Status
- Displays the following statuses of the error:
- Unfixed
- Indicates this log entry requires a service action.
- Fixed
- Indicates this entry is marked as fixed. It remains in the error
event log until it becomes the oldest record in the log, at which
point it is overwritten by the next log entry.
- Expired
- Indicates this event required a certain number of occurrences
in 25 hours before they are shown as unfixed. If they do not reach
this threshold in 25 hours, they are flagged as expired. Any further
events of this type are then placed in a new event log entry.
- Error Code
- Displays the error code.
- Error ID
- Displays the number that uniquely identifies the error or event.
- Additional Sense
- Displays data specific to this error or event code. This is a
binary data record. When the data is viewed using the Web interface,
this data is translated to ASCII characters on the right side of the
page. This data is used as part of the service procedures. However,
any procedures that refer to the data describe the ASCII format.
Actions
The
following action is available:
- Sense Expert
- Click this button to view decoded sense information. This information
might be requested from IBM® Support Center representatives
to aid in error resolution.
- Mark Error as Fixed
- Click this button to change the status of the error to fixed.
Note: The
new state of the error log entry is not refreshed until you re-run
the Analyze Error Log option.
- Cancel
- Click this button to exit the panel.