Veritas Access Appliance Troubleshooting Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (7.4.3)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Access Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      General tips for the troubleshooting process
    3.  
      General techniques for the troubleshooting process
  2. General troubleshooting procedures
    1.  
      About general troubleshooting procedures
    2.  
      Viewing the Access Appliance log files
    3.  
      About event logs
    4.  
      About shell-activity logs
    5.  
      Setting the CIFS log level
    6.  
      Setting the NetBackup client log levels and debugging options
    7.  
      Retrieving and sending debugging information
    8.  
      Insufficient delay between two successive OpenStack commands may result in failure
  3. Monitoring Access Appliance
    1.  
      About monitoring Access Appliance operations
    2.  
      Monitoring processor activity
    3.  
      Generating CPU and device utilization reports
    4.  
      Monitoring network traffic
  4. Common recovery procedures
    1.  
      About common recovery procedures
    2.  
      Restarting servers
    3. Bringing services online
      1.  
        Using the services command
    4.  
      Recovering from a non-graceful shutdown
    5.  
      Testing the network connectivity
    6.  
      Troubleshooting with traceroute
    7.  
      Using the traceroute command
    8.  
      Collecting the metasave image of a file system
    9.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card (online mode)
    10.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card (offline mode)
    11.  
      Replacing an Access Appliance node
    12.  
      Replacing a disk
    13. Speeding up replication
      1.  
        About synchronizing a replication job
      2.  
        Synchronizing an episodic replication job
    14.  
      Uninstalling a patch release or software upgrade
  5. Troubleshooting the Access Appliance cloud as a tier feature
    1.  
      Troubleshooting tips for cloud tiering
    2.  
      Issues when reading or writing data from the cloud tier
    3.  
      Log locations for checking for cloud tiering errors
  6. Troubleshooting Access Appliance installation and configuration issues
    1.  
      How to find the management console IP
    2.  
      Viewing the installation logs
    3.  
      Installation fails and does not complete
  7. Troubleshooting Access Appliance CIFS issues
    1.  
      User access is denied on a CTDB directory share
  8. Troubleshooting Access Appliance GUI startup issues
    1.  
      Resolving GUI startup issues
  9.  
    Index

About troubleshooting

Troubleshooting procedures for Access Appliance include the following types of procedures:

  • Alert and log message review

  • Routine maintenance tasks

  • Commonly used recovery procedures

  • Feature-specific problems and resolutions

Each of these procedures are described in the remaining chapters of this guide.

Some of the troubleshooting procedures in this guide require that you log on as the support user.