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How to figure out the cause of the error messages "VCS WARNING V-16-10011-5607 (nodename) NIC:resource_name:packet count test failed: Resource is offline
Article: 100024505
Last Published: 2012-07-21
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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation
Problem
[ ISSUE ]
NIC resources won't online aftet upgrading to 5.0 MP3 w AIX 6.1
Error Message
[ ERROR MESSAGES ]
2011/05/14 20:07:38 VCS WARNING V-16-10011-5607 (dsymc_aix1) NIC:APP_NIC:monitor:packet count test failed: Resource is offline
2011/05/14 20:07:38 VCS WARNING V-16-10011-5607 (dsymc_aix1) NIC:DB2_NIC:monitor:packet count test failed: Resource is offline
2011/05/14 20:07:38 VCS WARNING V-16-10011-5607 (dsymc_aix1) NIC:csgnic:monitor:packet count test failed: Resource is offline
Cause
Incident 1598940
: [Agents] Fixed an issue in which the NIC and MultiNICA resources did not go online because the broadcast ping failed due to changes in the AIX
operating system. Note that these agents will break if used with SP3+.
Modify agent to correctly parse netstat output for both pre and post AIX 6.1 TL2 SP3 levels.
Solution
[ FINDINGS AND SUGGESTION ]
According to the incident 1598940, since the format of netstat -i throughput changed at AIX OS level,
VCS also had no choice but to pursuant to its change by modifying the method in package calculation of MonitorProgram for NIC Agent.
And this is fixed in RP2 over MP3, 2009-07-18. Thereafter, it was obsolete through the latest patch, RP5.
1. What to collect
#no -a|grep bcastping
#netstat -i
2. What to check
1) For bcastping output, this parameter should set with bcastping = 1
To change bcastping to 1 to allow response to ICMP echo packets to the broadcast address by running the following command
# no -o bcastping=1
2) For packet calculation in netstat -i, please refer to the change in its outcome format.
Before O/S change in netstat -i output.
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$ cat netstat_i
Name Mtu Network Address ZoneID Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
en0 1500 link#2 0.1a.64.1e.e8.e6 180695 0 177372 3 0
en0 1500 192.168.1 1 92.168.1.43 180695 0 177372 3 0
en3 1500 link#3 0.1a.64.b9.3f.41 7251 0 635 3 0
en3 1500 192.168.2 192.168.1 .103 7251 0 635 3 0
lo0 16896 link#1 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 127 127.0.0.1 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 ::1 0 7902 0 7914 0 0
Name Mtu Network Address ZoneID Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
en0 1500 link#2 0.1a.64.1e.e8.e6 180695 0 177372 3 0
en0 1500 192.168.1 1 92.168.1.43 180695 0 177372 3 0
en3 1500 link#3 0.1a.64.b9.3f.41 7251 0 635 3 0
en3 1500 192.168.2 192.168.1 .103 7251 0 635 3 0
lo0 16896 link#1 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 127 127.0.0.1 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 ::1 0 7902 0 7914 0 0
After O/S change in netstat -i output.
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$ cat netstat_i
Name Mtu Network Address ZoneID Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
en0 1500 link#2 0.1a.64.1e.e8.e6 - 180695 0 177372 3 0
en0 1500 192.168.1 1 92.168.1.43 - 180695 0 177372 3 0
en3 1500 link#3 0.1a.64.b9.3f.41 - 7251 0 635 3 0
en3 1500 192.168.2 192.168.1 .103 - 7251 0 635 3 0
lo0 16896 link#1 - 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 127 127.0.0.1 - 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 ::1 0 7902 0 7914 0 0
Name Mtu Network Address ZoneID Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
en0 1500 link#2 0.1a.64.1e.e8.e6 - 180695 0 177372 3 0
en0 1500 192.168.1 1 92.168.1.43 - 180695 0 177372 3 0
en3 1500 link#3 0.1a.64.b9.3f.41 - 7251 0 635 3 0
en3 1500 192.168.2 192.168.1 .103 - 7251 0 635 3 0
lo0 16896 link#1 - 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 127 127.0.0.1 - 7902 0 7914 0 0
lo0 16896 ::1 0 7902 0 7914 0 0
3. Resolution.
So therefore, please install RP5 package after downloading from the link below.
Applies To
[ VERSION OF OS/PACKAGE ]
AIX 6.1 / 6100-04-04-1014
SFHA5.0MP3