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Spectrum Protect: Failed to prepare update packages.

Posted by xaminmo

OpCenter GUI Failed to prepare update packages, and the button is greyed out.
We have never been able to use OpCenter client updates.

We’ve gone through the steps in the 8.1.007 release notes
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-version-817000-fix-pack-readme-files
* Command routing works from hub to spoke and spoke to hub.
* Every server has a FILE class, and half have a directory class pool.
* Every server has an HLA and LLA set.
* Most of our clients to use cad with passwordaccc=generate

We’ve gone through the dependencies in opcenter help, which is mostly the same.

We have tried deleting the DEPLOY nodes and letting them re-replicate.

Protect: TSM1>q act begind=-1 endd=today msgno=3759
02/07/23 08:00:31 ANR3759E An error occurred during the replication of client update packages from node IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_UNX to the monitored server, TSM2. The return code is 18. (PROCESS: 1612)
02/07/23 08:00:31 ANR3759E An error occurred during the replication of client update packages from node IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_WIN to the monitored server, TSM2. The return code is 18. (PROCESS: 1613)

Reset the remote clients that are failing

TSM2: DEL FI IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_UNX *
TSM2: DEL FI IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_WIN *

TSM2: remove replnode IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_UNX server=TSM1
TSM2: remove replnode IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_WIN server=TSM1

TSM2: remove node IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_UNX
TSM2: remove node IBM_DEPLOY_CLIENT_WIN

Reset deploypkgmgr – not really needed

SET DEPLOYPKGMGR off
SET DEPLOYREPOSITORY /sp/software/octemp/downloads/
SET DEPLOYMAXPKGS 4
SET DEPLOYPKGMGR on

HELPS – The underlying hidden command that does the sync.

refresh pkg clean=no startnow=yes

Once this processes, the button turned blue.

Asked IBM to address this because if there are multiple spokes, failure of one spoke should not block the others.


Dream of The Arts

Posted by xaminmo

I don’t remember much, but it was fairly early in the morning. We were at a play, at a school auditorium, which had been an evening gala. Piles of clothes lined up around the dressing and rest rooms. Several friends were playing roles, on a whim. It was sort of like live auditions, in front of a live audience. Several people were drunk from an evening of partying.

I was heading out, and navigating stacks if clothes with a 2-wheel hand truck, through the door, through what I thought was a restroom. Fun jibes with a guy on the way out. I was pooped. Then… I was outside.

And as I walked away, I saw her. She had been inside, in a red dress, with frills. Here, jeans, a white and baby blue striped shirt, and the best curls I’ve ever seen. We’d talked inside, but not much. Time jumped. because she had been in line to go on stage when I left.

Someone was trying to pick a verbal fight with her, so I walked with her, put my arm across her back, and told her to just ignore them.

She was tall, had a kind, pretty, uncertain face. Light brown, dark tan.. but with freckles. I REALLY loved her hair. All 1″ curls, even on top.

Slight Spanish accent, but mostly neutral US. We chatted, and were both kind of swooning. “Would you really be interested in dating a mean girl?” “Maybe.”

Some quips and we found the we lived close, and would try to have no expectations, but were both besmitten. We were late 20s, healthy, I was lean, and we were excited.

After waking, I still have the feeling. I miss her, and she’s an imaginary amalgamation of a comedian, my spouse, and others.

The dream before had something to do with international calls, and trying to solve something.


Grice’s maxims of cooperative communication

Posted by xaminmo

Grice’s maxims of cooperatice communication are fourfold.

——

His maxim of quantity is to be informative, and has two submaxims:

  1. Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange).

  2. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.

Analogy: If I ask for 4 screws, do not provide only 2, and fo not provide 6.

——

His maxim of quality is to be truthful, and has these submaxims:

  1. Do not say what you believe is false.

  • Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.

    • Analogy: Be genuine and not spurious. If I ask for sugar, I do not expect salt. If I ask for a spoon, I do not expect a trick rubber spoon.

    ——

    His maxim of relation says:

    Be relevant — i.e., one should ensure that all the information they provide is relevant to the current exchange; therefore omitting any irrelevant information.

    Analogy: I expect a partner’s contribution to be appropriate to the immediate needs at each stage of the transaction. If I am mixing ingredients for a cake, I do not expect to be handed a good book, or even an oven cloth (though this might be an appropriate contribution at a later stage).

    ——

    His final maxim of manner is to be clear, and has ingrained parody of itself:

    Be perspicious.

    1. Avoid obscurity of expression — i.e., avoid language that is difficult to understand.

  • Avoid ambiguity — i.e., avoid language that can be interpreted in multiple ways.

  • Be brief — i.e., avoid unnecessary prolixity.

  • Be orderly — i.e., provide information in an order that makes sense, and makes it easy for the recipient to process it.

    • ——

    Flouting a maxim ironically can be used to convey deeper or alternate meaning when context is correct.

    Viloating maxims can be used to mislead, or impede communication.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle


    Fire Chasies

    Posted by xaminmo

    It was embarrasing. We had firechasies loose on the ship. One or two were annoying. They liked to toy with people, maybe singe hair. They were psychic, and imbued people with a little fear. They thought it was funny.

    But this was maybe 40 or 50. The richies who rented the ship thought it would be good fun, but of course, the chasies got loose. This was a real hazard. We would have to vent the ship.

    But did we? Were we just playing into their silly littly game? How long could people last with the cabins purged, Could we cram everyone somewhere safe and keep the chasies out?

    I went to the cockpit, and looked out the window. Beautiful. We were low over a thick dust ring around a gas giant. Anyway, back to the plan.

    I needed to make sure that others were safe if we lost control of the ship. Only one ship nearby.

    “Pegasus, how many on board?”

    “Pegasus Crew Transport, 51 souls on board.”

    I could see them now. They looked like a lolipop with two long pontoons. Reminded me of the Precursor ship on Star Control.

    They were moving fast, lower against the dust rings. They had to be hitting pebbles, but they were gone in less than a minute.

    OK. We have 3 minutes of venting. Any longer, and we won’t have enough air left. Hope we can get all of the chasies out.

    I feel a twinge of guilt. They’re sentient. Not overtly evil. Some people even keep one as a pet. But there’s no other choice.

    And then I woke up.

    I don’t always remember dreams. Sometimes not as much detail, but sometimes very elaborate, multiple scenes, etc. Usually not vibrant, like me visualizing or remembering when awake. Usually happens when waking, and usually gone if I go back to sleep. I remembered more when I was younger. Probably because I had untreated sleep apnea in my 20s. (UPPP/Tonsilectomy did wonders for sleep quality.)

    I have others in text files, livejournal, wordpress, facebook, reddit.


    Mock the Victims!

    Posted by xaminmo

    Wake-up thoughts on wording. It’s slow to process. Not news.

    It’s generally not cool to mock someone for their trauma. Exceptions might exist for individuals you know well, who are not still suffering from it.

    This is the very essense of where “punch up. Don’t punch down.” comes from. So, a comic can get away with mocking themselves, their buddies with permission, and rich assholes.

    Examples: You don’t make dead baby jokes around people who lost a child. You don’t make rape jokes around a group of rape survivors.

    As soon as they mock people whose grandparents lost their whole family to war crimes, it gets dicey, especially if they mock the group for the loss, or stereotypes about the loss, or jokingly blame them for that loss.

    There’s not a threshold for affected percent. It’s about whether the audience empathizes.

    For instance, 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men admit to having been raped in the US. More than this have been assaulted, but many keep it inside because society blames victims. So, everyone knows at least one person who’s directly affected.

    A celebrity would probably not be tolerated if they made a lot of jokes demeaning sexual assault victims. It’s raw. People are not “over it” because it’s ongoing.

    Kids murdered in school shootings, also mostly off limits. You can demean the shooters, maybe, but not the survivors and parents. It’s just bad form, and insensitive.

    Some examples of acceptable consequences:

    Self-Yeet declaring “deathcon” against jews, and spreading old-style hateful “they own everything” messages. “Well, it makes sense he’d lose contracts, followers, etc.”

    Schadenfreude over Musk digging his own hole with Twitter? “Great! He deserves it!” People organizing to cancel their Twitter accounts by the hudreds of thousands? “That’s their right.”

    Bliss over the Kentucky student getting kicked out of school and her influencer jobs because of racist tirades while drunk? “Totally on board. She was a little snot anyway.”

    But there is a line in the sand. One exception carved out.

    We have a group where 66% of the members are sexually assaulted. 82% planned suicide, and 40% tried at least once. 44% suffer PTSD. The bullying NEVER ended. The murder rate against this group quadrupled during the previous presidency, as did violent rhetoric against the group.

    You’d think that demeaning this group, might be slightly off limits.

    You’d be wrong.

    Strong support from all classes and other minorities. “Don’t you dare boycott paying your money to this comic. His group has an 8.7% PTSD rate, so HE KNOWS.”

    Doubling down on it, and having other friends come support poking at people with gender dysphoria, or whose internal perception does not match their external presentation at birth?

    Outrage is not allowed. No boycotting allowed. No cancelling memberships allowed. “How dare you try to cancel my beloved Chappell.” “Those people need to grow a spine.”

    The list of when you invoke protected speech status, vs when you nod and say “consequences will get you”, is what defines the bias. A group 7x more vulnerable not getting the same protections you invoke for your favorite group is a sizeable prejudice.


    Alien Dreams

    Posted by xaminmo

    I don’t remember much of my dreams from last night, but I just remembered that there was something where there were aliens trying to talk to us. We kept not noticing that listening, and so eventually they brought in some sort of dimensional shift.

    I don’t know if it was another earth or if it was space-time folding around the earth or whatever. There were places and times where gravity was extra light or was reversed. I remember feeling the stomach drop from floating up at some point in the dream.

    There was some communication with aliens through some devices that were floating around and interacting and everything. Eventually, they were leaving, and asked if I wanted to go with them. I had 2 1/2 minutes to decide. I asked a few questions about it, but I woke up before I decided.

    I’ve been awake 2 or 3 hours, and it surprises me that I remember any of it. I didn’t remember it when I first woke up.


    SW/FS/SVC Volume Mobility

    Posted by xaminmo

    SAN Volume Controller / Storwize / Flash System version 8.4.2 allows you to non-disruptively migrate a LUN between array controller clusters. It’s set up like remote copy, except you can map the remote copy to the same host at the same time. The remote copy becomes non-preferred paths for the same vdisk and vdisk ID. Then you can switch who is primary. Then you can remove the old copy.

    Here is someone who did a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpcOoshkm4w​


    Rules of the Internet

    Posted by xaminmo

    Rules of the internet are a historical meme. Some of these are horrible, and some are amusing. This is ancient lore of the Internet from 4chan.

    0. Don’t fuck with cats.

    1. Do not talk about /b/

    2. Do NOT talk about /b/

    3. We are Anonymous

    3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399573105…. Expect us.

    4. Anonymous is legion

    5. Anonymous never forgives

    6. Anonymous can be a horrible, senseless, uncaring monster

    7. Anonymous is still able to deliver

    8. There are no real rules about posting

    9. There are no real rules about moderation either – enjoy your ban

    10. If you enjoy any rival sites – DON’ T

    11. All your carefully picked arguments can easily be ignored

    12. Anything you say can and will be used against you

    13. Anything you say can be turned into something else – fixed

    14. Do not argue with trolls – it means that they win

    15. The harder you try the harder you will fail

    16. If you fail in epic proportions, it may just become a winning failure

    17. Every win fails eventually

    18. Everything that can be labeled can be hated

    19. The more you hate it the stronger it gets

    20. Nothing is to be taken seriously

    21. Original content is original only for a few seconds before getting old

    22. Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality

    23. Copypasta is made to ruin every last bit of originality

    24. Every repost is always a repost of a repost

    25. Relation to the original topic decreases with every single post

    26. Any topic can be easily turned into something totally unrelated

    27. Always question a person’s sexual prefrences without any real reason

    28. Always question a person’s gender – just in case it’s really a man

    29. In the internet all girls are men and all kids are undercover FBI agents

    30. There are no girls on the internet

    31. TITS or GTFO – the choice is yours

    32. You must have pictures to prove your statements

    33. Lurk more – it’s never enough

    34. There is porn of it, no exceptions

    35. If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made

    35.2. If no pony is found of it, it will be made.

    35.3. If there is no app for it, it will be made.

    35.4. If no poop is found, it will be pooped.

    35.4×2. If there is no Lego of it, then make one.

    35.5. If it is in Minecraft, the crafting idea video will be shoved into the farthest corners of YouTube.

    35.6. If there is no parody of it, make one.

    35.7. If there is no Pokemon based on it, there is/will be a Anymon based on it.

    35.8. If no dubstep is found of it, it will be made.

    35.35. If it is not on the internet it must be by midnight.

    35.99. If no mario paint composer version is found of it, it will be made.

    35∞. The number of objects and situations yet to be porn-ified spontaneously decreases over time.

    36. There will always be even more fucked up shit than what you just saw

    37. You can not divide by zero (just because the calculator says so)

    38. No real limits of any kind apply here – not even the sky

    39. CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL

    40. EVEN WITH CRUISE CONTROL YOU STILL HAVE TO STEER

    41. Desu isn’t funny. Seriously guys. It’s worse than Chuck Norris jokes.

    42. Nothing is Sacred

    43. The more beautiful and pure a thing is the more satisfying it is to corrupt it

    44. Even one positive corment about Japanese things can make you a weeaboo

    45. When one sees a lion, one must get into the car

    46. There is always furry porn of it.

    47. The pool is always closed due to AIDS (and stingrays, which also have AIDS).

    47.2. YOU ARE FOOL!

    47.3. THE CONSEQUENCES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!

    48. A cat is fine too.

    49. One cat leads to another.

    50. Another cat leads to Zippo Cat.

    51. No matter what it is, it is somebody’s fetish. No exceptions.

    52. It is delicious cake. You must eat it.

    53. It is delicious trap. You must hit it.

    53.2. The trap broke the lazah.

    54.2. And today.

    54.3. So does America.

    55. If you have time to make up new rules, you have no life.

    55.2. Except for me.

    55.3. If you have no life, you do not exist. Therefore, your rule does not exist if you do not exist. No exceptions.

    55.4. The rules were created by people who do not exist, so the rules do not exist. No Exceptions.

    55.5. Although the rules do not exist, logic exists. The rules = logic. Therefore the rules do exist. No Exceptions.

    55.5.2 Since the rules exist by logic, then the rules have always existed. No Exceptions.

    55.5.3 So the creation of your rule is only a repost of science. (See rule 24)

    55.6. If Rule 55 applies to you, then /b/ welcomes you.

    56. They will not bring back Snacks.

    57. You will never have sex.

    57.2. I just had sex and it felt so good. (See rule 82)

    59. No one does it like Gaston. No exceptions.

    60. It needs more pumpkin. No exceptions.

    60.1. What pumpkin?

    60.2. It doesn’t matter as long as you give him the butter.

    61. It needs more cowbell. No exceptions.

    61.2 Chuck Norris is the exception, no exceptions.

    62. It has been cracked and pirated. No exceptions.

    62.2. The previous rule does not apply to Pokémon X and Y.

    62.3. The previous rule is null and void if you have a gateway 3DS card

    63. For every male character there is a female version. No Exceptions.

    63.2. For every female character there is a male version. No Exceptions.

    63.3. For every asexual character there is a version for each sex. No Exceptions.

    63.4. Rules 63, 63.2 and 63.3 does not include real people. (Too much work. No Exceptions.)

    63.5. Real people are ruled unworthy.

    63.6. Rules 63.4 and 63.5 are lies. Real people can and will be gender-bent. No exceptions.

    64. Don’t copy that floppy. rule 64 number

    65. Anonymous is not your personal army.

    66. The cake is a lie.

    66.2. The lie is a cake.

    66.3. The cock is a lie.

    66.4. The lie is a cock.

    66.5. The cake is a liar.

    66.6. THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST!

    66.7. Iron Maiden is awesome. No exceptions.

    66.8. Unless you are GLaDOS.

    66.9. Maybe GLaDOS is a lie. You’ll never know.

    66.10. Even if GLaDOS is a lie AFH is still truth. Refer to rule 334.3 and rule 93.

    67. Anonymous does not “buy”, he downloads.

    68. Milhouse will never be a meme. Ever. No matter what your post ends with. No exceptions. Ever. No.

    68.2. However, “Milhouse is not a meme” is a meme.

    68.3. It is undecided whether ‘ “Milhouse is not a meme” is a meme’ is a meme or not.

    68.4. Refer to rule 899899

    68.5. Rules 68, 68.2, and 68.3 define falsity, truthiness, and ambiguity. So by definition, Milhouse is not a meme.

    69. LOL SIXTY NINE AMIRITE?

    69.2. If your question ends with “AMIRITE?”, the answer will never be yes.

    71. The internet is SERIOUS BUSINESS.

    71.∞. The internet is better than you.

    72. Darth Vader is your father. No exceptions.

    72.2. Except for Ash. NO ONE knows who Ash’s father is. Not even his mother.

    73. If there isn’t enough just ask for Moar.

    75. Rule 75 is a lie.

    76. Twinkies are the answers to life’s problems.

    76.2. Disregard rule 76.1, the creator was gay. Twinkies are back. They will always be back. No exceptions.

    77. The internet makes you stupid.

    77.7. Rule 77 is false. You are not necessarily stupid, just incomprehensible.

    78. It will always need more sauce.

    80. Interwebz177 did it. No exceptions.

    81. Anonymous is a fool by default.

    82. Nobody tells the truth on the Internet

    83.2. Only mental slugs edit Star Wars.

    83.4. Han shot first

    84. All rules ARE true, including this one.

    84.2. These rule, therefore, are rule 478-compliant.

    85. Stupid rules are forbidden.

    86. The term “sage” does not refer to the spice.

    87. If you get pepperoni ever again, I swear I’ll blow this joint sky-high!

    87.2 But you know I only like pepperoni!

    87.3. Cheese pizza is the best pizza. No exceptions.

    87.4. Sorry, all I got were shrooms, but we can still get high right?

    88. Anonymous rules the internet. No exceptions.

    89. Bruce Lee was a hero to us all.

    90. It’s never lupus.

    93.2. This is not rule 93. This is rule 93.2., and rule 93 was not here.

    93.3. Rule 899 is rule 93. (This is not)

    93.4. Fagicorn deleted the real rule 93.

    93.5. Rekt.

    93.6. Get it. Kunt.

    93.7. The above rules are rule 93 pro tempore

    93.8. AT LAST! We found rule 93! Everything makes sense now and the balance of the universe is restored!

    93.9. To the writer of rule 93.8: no it isn’t.

    94. This is rule 94. It was definitely not deleted by SOPA.

    95. Anonymous did NOT, under any circumstances, tk him 2da bar?

    96. If you express astonishment at someone’s claim, it is most likely just a clever ruse.

    97. The government, The CIA, Everything is a lie.

    97.2. The NSA is out to get you, no exceptions.

    98. Only Zippocat is truth.

    99. All numbers are at least 100 but always OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND.

    100. Gay will not be tolerated. (Basically, a lot of homophobic teen boys were all over the net in the late 1990s and early 2000s. We all know this is not as much of a problem, but is not all rainbows and moonbeams either.


    Social Media Popularity

    Posted by xaminmo
    I got to wondering why we don’t use Flickr anymore, and it sent me into a social media dive. This is not all-inclusive. It’s just what was most noticeable. I’m sure I’ve missed things that a lot of people use.
     
    ### Analysis
    The clear winner for blogging is Facebook, with 2.93b active accounts. It seems that the combination of free accounts, and heuristics to filter and add things on your wall beyond just “my friends by date”. Political and Social outrage seems to drive a lot of its activity. Fine-grained permissions are good here too.
    LinkedIn has 830m users, with about 47% active in any given month. This is more about work networking, and less about general social interaction or blogging. There definitely is some of that.
     
    WordPress (455m) won over most of the linear journaling sites, probably due to customizability, and the ability to run on your own server. There is a feed aggregator page for WP, but it’s more or less an online RSS aggregator.
     
    Reddit (26m) is mostly about individual communities here, and not much in the way of individuals. There’s not really a personal wall of text, and there’s not fine-grained permissions like with the other sites. Pretty much everything is public or group access.
     
    MeWe (20m) seems pretty sparse by comparison.
     
    Livejournal (15.5m) didn’t really do media well, didn’t filter out low-interest friend posts, and didn’t add in high-interest non-friend posts. After it was bought by a Russian company, some of the originators started DreamWidth, with some good tools to import your LJ blog and friends. They only have around 50k active users.
     
    BlogSpot/Blogger was just a linear feed. Aggregation was external with RSS readers. It still exists, but it’s hard to find stats on it.
     
    MetaFilter (12k) is like a super-curated version of Reddit. It has a tight-knit niche population here.
     
    Google Plus, Okta, Friendster, SixDegrees… they all died a long time ago.
     
    ### Video / Photo
    YouTube (2.6b) is still the winner, even with their commercial push lately. Being the incumbent helps, but also they have a strong focus on educational material, and long-format videos. They harmed some small content creators, but have a lot of momentum yet. They also offer music, movies, and live TV streaming options.
     
    Instagram (1b active) is mostly pictures, but has a strong “reel” presence too. Insta feeds off of emotional interest, such as celebrities, sex appeal, current events, etc. Their outrage focus avoids the top-tier battles more than FB, and you’ll see bad drivers, belligerent drunks, etc. Top Tier outrage happens, but the text format is not as conducive to memetic virus explosion.  This is somewhat ephemeral, and it’s difficult to actually “share” photos for others to download.
     
    TikTok is also about 1b active users, and does the same thing as Insta. No photos, and more focus on content creators, and less on celebrities and politics. Despite having short video clips, they compete well with YouTube.
     
    Twitch (30m active) is streaming and stream recordings. In this space, they compete very well, but they do not have general videos, nor other media types. It has a large percentage of video game players, and thirst trap sex appeal.
     
    Flickr is also mostly photo sharing, but has videos too. 500m new posts per month, 7.6m active users.  It lets you share original size, and unlimited album sizes.  Paid vs Free balance has changed over time.
     
    Vimeo (5m) is more commercial than social, but deserves mention.
     
    ### Music/Audio
    For music, outside of YouTube, the winner seems to be SoundCloud, with 76m users.  Small bands, limited commercialization.  Lots of experiemental, small reach, and new creative content.  If this embedded better into shared posts of other social media sites, I think it would be even larger.
     
    MySpace (7m), it surprises me it still exists. It used to be in the general blogging category, but has been music niche for a long while.
     
    Some sites try to tell me BandCamp fits here, but BandCamp is 99.9% music sales. Spotify, Last, Pandora, etc all have scrobbling, but none of these really have a social network around bidirectional friend communication.
     
    ### Messaging / Chat:
    WhatsApp has 2b active users. It’s mostly a replacement for SMS/MMS chat, and supports a large, international following. It supports end to end encryption, but is owned by Facebook. It has some minor amount of tracking involved.
     
    Facebook Messenger has about 1.3b active users per month. This is very similar to WhatsApp, but has integration with Facebook userid instead of phone number.
     
    Snapchat (332m active daily) is similar, but ephemeral, with photos and text evaporating pretty quickly.
     
    Twitter (330m active daily) is kind of unique. It was an SMS integration, and kept small-message size limits. It does some embedded media integration pretty well. It does some following/grouping, and some “you might also like” heuristics which helps it stay relevant.
     
    Discord(155m active monthly) fits in here, with private and group chats. Similar to IRC. it has chat rooms that people can join and leave at will.
     
    Signal (40m) is an also end-to-end encrypted SMS alternative. It supports connecting your phone and PC to the same chats.
     
    Slack (10m) is very similar to IRC also, but more for corporate/business use than personal.
     
    IRC still exists, but is heavily splintered. Peak hours have about 228k connected users, which probably means about half a million daily or monthly users. Used more by Open Source projects in lieu of Slack, etc.
     
    Plenty of other jabber/XMPP chats in various places that probably add up to large numbers of users.

    errpt disk errors

    Posted by xaminmo

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR1 Subsystem Component Failure

    The storage subsystem has returned an error indicating that some component (hardware or software) of the storage subsystem has failed. The detailed sense data identifies the failing component and the recovery action that is required. Failing hardware components should also be shown in the Storage Manager software, so the placement of these errors in the error log is advisory and is an aid for your technical-support representative.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR2 Array Active Controller Switch

    The active controller for one or more hdisks associated with the storage subsystem has changed. This is in response to some direct action by the AIX host (failover or autorecovery). This message is associated with either a set of failure conditions causing a failover or, after a successful failover, with the recovery of paths to the preferred controller on hdisks with the autorecovery attribute set to yes.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR3 Array Controller Switch Failure

    An attempt to switch active controllers has failed. This leaves one or more paths with no working path to a controller. The AIX MPIO PCM will retry this error several times in an attempt to find a successful path to a controller.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR4 Array Configuration Changed

    The active controller for an hdisk has changed, usually due to an action not initiated by this host. This might be another host initiating failover or recovery, for shared LUNs, a redistribute operation from the Storage Manager software, a change to the preferred path in the Storage Manager software, a controller being taken offline, or any other action that causes the active controller ownership to change.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR5 Array Cache Battery Drained

    The storage subsystem cache battery has drained. Any data remaining in the cache is dumped and is vulnerable to data loss until it is dumped. Caching is not normally allowed with drained batteries unless the administrator takes action to enable it within the Storage Manager software.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR6 Array Cache Battery Charge Is Low

    The storage subsystem cache batteries are low and need to be charged or replaced.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR7 Cache Mirroring Disabled

    Cache mirroring is disabled on the affected hdisks. Normally, any cached write data is kept within the cache of both controllers so that if either controller fails there is still a good copy of the data. This is a warning message stating that loss of a single controller will result in data loss.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR8 Path Has Failed

    The I/O path to a controller has failed or gone offline.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR9 Path Has Recovered

    The I/O path to a controller has resumed and is back online.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR10 Array Drive Failure

    A physical drive in the storage array has failed and should be replaced.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR11 Reservation Conflict

    A PCM operation has failed due to a reservation conflict. This error is not currently issued.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR12 Snapshot™ Volume’s Repository Is Full

    The snapshot volume repository is full. Write actions to the snapshot volume will fail until the repository problems are fixed.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR13 Snapshot Op Stopped By Administrator

    The administrator has halted a snapshot operation.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR14 Snapshot repository metadata error

    The storage subsystem has reported that there is a problem with snapshot metadata.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR15 Illegal I/O – Remote Volume Mirroring

    The I/O is directed to an illegal target that is part of a remote volume mirroring pair (the target volume rather than the source volume).

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR16 Snapshot Operation Not Allowed

    A snapshot operation that is not allowed has been attempted.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR17 Snapshot Volume’s Repository Is Full

    The snapshot volume repository is full. Write actions to the snapshot volume will fail until the repository problems are fixed.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR18 Write Protected

    The hdisk is write-protected. This can happen if a snapshot volume repository is full.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR19 Single Controller Restarted

    The I/O to a single-controller storage subsystem is resumed.

    SC_DISK_PCM_ERR20 Single Controller Restart Failure

    The I/O to a single-controller storage subsystem is not resumed. The AIX MPIO PCM will continue to attempt to restart the I/O to the storage subsystem.