Veritas Access Appliance 8.2 Troubleshooting Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.2)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3360
  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.  
      Setting the CIFS log level
    5.  
      Setting the NetBackup client log levels and debugging options
    6.  
      Retrieving and sending debugging information
    7.  
      Collecting time-based and archived logs
  3. Monitoring Access Appliance
    1.  
      About monitoring Access Appliance operations
    2.  
      Monitoring hardware components
  4. Common recovery procedures
    1.  
      About common recovery procedures
    2.  
      Restarting servers
    3.  
      Restarting cluster services
    4. Bringing services online
      1.  
        Using the services command
    5.  
      Recovering from a non-graceful shutdown
    6.  
      Testing the network connectivity
    7.  
      Troubleshooting with traceroute
    8.  
      Using the traceroute command
    9.  
      Collecting the metasave image of a file system
    10.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card (online mode)
    11.  
      Replacing an Access Appliance node
    12. Speeding up episodic replication
      1.  
        About synchronizing an episodic replication job
      2.  
        Synchronizing an episodic replication job
    13.  
      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. Troubleshooting Veritas Data Deduplication issues
    1.  
      Log locations for the Veritas Data Deduplication server
  10.  
    Index

General tips for the troubleshooting process

To troubleshoot a problem, it helps to consider the following:

  • Check for previous occurrence.

    Check existing troubleshooting information to see if the problem has occurred before. For this type of information, a good source is the Access Appliance Release Notes. The release notes contain a list of known issues for Access Appliance and possible workarounds.

  • Consider recent alterations.

    If a system has problems immediately after some kind of maintenance, software upgrade, or other change, the problems might be linked to those changes.

  • Determine what works.

    If a system does not produce the desired end result, look for what operates properly. Identify where the problem is not and focus your efforts in other areas. Whatever components or subsystems necessary for the properly working parts to function are probably okay.

  • Use your experience.

    Based on your knowledge of how a system works, think of various failures that might cause this problem to occur. Check for those failures. Start with the most likely failures based on circumstances, history, or knowledge of existing feature weaknesses.