NIM again

[unixfreak]

'morning. Almost all my NIM resources have entered a "Not available for use" state without any explanation. Only SPOT and lpp_source are there. How did this happen? What do I do now?

Thanks in advance

 

[hfaix]

Did the network change?

 

[unixfreak]

No.

Cheers

 

[hirschaj]

Can you give some examples of what resources are marked as unavailable now?


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[unixfreak]

Everything except SPOT and lpp_source which are allocated to a machine group.
It's Rstate that's unavailable.

Cheers

 

[p5wizard]

Have you checked /var/adm/ras/nimlog file?

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[hfaix]

Post an answer if you find one. I'm curious about this.

 

[unixfreak]

/var/adm/ras/nimlog is empty.

Cheers

 

[p5wizard]

Long shot: I think the nimlog is on nim clients also - perhaps one of your clients did something unspeakable to your server and hopefully it is logged there?

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[hfaix]

Another Long Shot.....Did a different machine take-over/fail-over as master?

 

[CrystalWizard]

You've got one or more clients set to be migrated or installed.

 

[unixfreak]

Ok, I've tried these suggestions but nothing works. It's the only NIM server and nothing is allocated to anything :-(
I'm getting a bit desperate.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Cheers

 

[CrystalWizard]

you could try unconfiguring it, uninstalling it, then reinstalling it I suppose.

 

[unixfreak]

Yeah maybe. What is "Rstate" anyway?

Cheers

 

[p5wizard]

short for Resource state I guess

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[hfaix]

Have you tried adding new resourcesand new machines? Does that work?

 

[unixfreak]

Hi,
running the command

/usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/nim/methods/m_chattr -a Rstate=available <resource>

on all the resources did it. I still don't know what caused it!

Cheers