Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Administrator"s Guide (5900-1512, April 2011)

Understanding error messages

VCS generates two error message logs: the engine log and the agent log.

Log file names are appended by letters. Letter A indicates the first log file, B the

second, C the third, and so on.

The engine log is located at /var/VRTSvcs/log/engine_A.log. The format of engine

log messages is:

Timestamp (Year/MM/DD) | Mnemonic | Severity | UMI| Message Text

■ Timestamp: The date and time the message was generated.

■ Mnemonic: The string ID that represents the product (for example, VCS).

■ Severity: Levels include CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, and INFO

(most to least severe, respectively).

■ UMI: A unique message ID.

■ Message Text: The actual message that was generated by VCS.

A typical engine log resembles:

2003/02/10 16:08:09 VCS INFO V-16-1-10077 received new cluster membership.

The agent log is located at /var/VRTSvcs/log/agent_A.log.

The format of agent log messages resembles:

Resource Name | Entry Point | Message Text

A typical agent log resembles:

2003/02/23 10:38:23 VCS WARNING V-16-2-23331

Oracle:VRT:monitor:Open for ora_lgwr failed, setting cookie to

null.

Note that the logs on all nodes may not be identical because of the following

circumstances:

■ VCS logs local events on the local nodes.

■ All nodes may not be running when an event occurs.

Troubleshooting CVM

This section discusses troubleshooting CVM problems.

Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC

Troubleshooting CVM

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