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I have a Sun Fire v480 server that just started spitting out NOTICEs
about Qlogic qlc(0) Loop going OFFLINE then immediately back ONLINE.
It's doing it about every couple hours.

I realize I may have a faulty Gbic somewhere, but how can I verify if
qlc(0) is the internal controllers for the dual SCSI disks or if it's
the Qlogic IPS2200 add-in card.

OS: Solaris 10 (11/06)
Kernel: 125100-07

luxadm -e port

/devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
/devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:devctl NOT CONNECTED
/devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@5/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED

Is qlc(0) really /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp.... ? That
would mean the internal controller would be going bad in the v480,
right?

Thanks, happy holidays.

Chris

On Dec 10, 8:26 pm, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Sun Fire v480 server that just started spitting out NOTICEs
> about Qlogic qlc(0) Loop going OFFLINE then immediately back ONLINE.
> It's doing it about every couple hours.
>
> I realize I may have a faulty Gbic somewhere, but how can I verify if
> qlc(0) is the internal controllers for the dual SCSI disks or if it's
> the Qlogic IPS2200 add-in card.
>
> OS: Solaris 10 (11/06)
> Kernel: 125100-07
>
> luxadm -e port
>
> /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
> /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:devctl NOT CONNECTED
> /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@5/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
>
> Is qlc(0) really /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp.... ? That
> would mean the internal controller would be going bad in the v480,
> right?
>
> Thanks, happy holidays.
>
> Chris

Uhh, maybe contact sun support on this issue? Also, here is an
infodoc available that
maps that device path to a physical device.

So why do people think that newsgroup support is better than the
professional
support that they have ALREADY PAID FOR?!

On Dec 10, 9:06 pm, lahuman9 <lahum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 8:26 pm, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a Sun Fire v480 server that just started spitting out NOTICEs
> > about Qlogic qlc(0) Loop going OFFLINE then immediately back ONLINE.
> > It's doing it about every couple hours.
>
> > I realize I may have a faulty Gbic somewhere, but how can I verify if
> > qlc(0) is the internal controllers for the dual SCSI disks or if it's
> > the Qlogic IPS2200 add-in card.
>
> > OS: Solaris 10 (11/06)
> > Kernel: 125100-07
>
> > luxadm -e port
>
> > /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
> > /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:devctl NOT CONNECTED
> > /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@5/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
>
> > Is qlc(0) really /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp.... ? That
> > would mean the internal controller would be going bad in the v480,
> > right?
>
> > Thanks, happy holidays.
>
> > Chris
>
> Uhh, maybe contact sun support on this issue? Also, here is an
> infodoc available that
> maps that device path to a physical device.
>
> So why do people think that newsgroup support is better than the
> professional
> support that they have ALREADY PAID FOR?!

Maybe because not all the devices are under contract.

I don't think you get the idea of good newsgroup support.

Don't bother answering people with this type of post. It's not right,
professional, nor wanted. There are many good non-arrogant
professionals who enjoy helping others learn their craft.

Happy Holidays.

On Dec 10, 11:04 pm, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 9:06 pm, lahuman9 <lahum...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Dec 10, 8:26 pm, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have a Sun Fire v480 server that just started spitting out NOTICEs
> > > about Qlogic qlc(0) Loop going OFFLINE then immediately back ONLINE.
> > > It's doing it about every couple hours.
>
> > > I realize I may have a faulty Gbic somewhere, but how can I verify if
> > > qlc(0) is the internal controllers for the dual SCSI disks or if it's
> > > the Qlogic IPS2200 add-in card.
>
> > > OS: Solaris 10 (11/06)
> > > Kernel: 125100-07
>
> > > luxadm -e port
>
> > > /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
> > > /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:devctl NOT CONNECTED
> > > /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@5/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
>
> > > Is qlc(0) really /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp.... ? That
> > > would mean the internal controller would be going bad in the v480,
> > > right?
>
> > > Thanks, happy holidays.
>
> > > Chris
>
> > Uhh, maybe contact sun support on this issue? Also, here is an
> > infodoc available that
> > maps that device path to a physical device.
>
> > So why do people think that newsgroup support is better than the
> > professional
> > support that they have ALREADY PAID FOR?!
>
> Maybe because not all the devices are under contract.
>
> I don't think you get the idea of good newsgroup support.
>
> Don't bother answering people with this type of post. It's not right,
> professional, nor wanted. There are many good non-arrogant
> professionals who enjoy helping others learn their craft.
>

Going through lahuman9's posts I see that most of them are
condescending, negative, and generally a waist of time to read with
little to no value added to the group. A shame really. He/she is
probably a good tech, just a crappy bed-side manner. Oh well, I guess
O'reilly's Essential System Administration book was correct. Some of
us Unix guys are arrogant, even to each other.

Sorry for the pissing contest. Just can't stand that type of posts
here. They should help people, not belittle them.

ChrisS wrote:
> I have a Sun Fire v480 server that just started spitting out NOTICEs
> about Qlogic qlc(0) Loop going OFFLINE then immediately back ONLINE.
> It's doing it about every couple hours.

I had this on a Blade 2000 in the past, too, and I think it was
connected to power management (disabling powerd made it go away).

I don't see the problem anymore today, so maybe it was fixed in some
patch. You could try to install the current qlogic driver patch (125166-06).

mp.
--
Systems Administrator | Institute of Scientific Computing | Univ. of Vienna
| http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
Patch Check Advanced | Analyze, download and install patches for Sun
Solaris

On Dec 11, 1:26 am, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
> /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:devctl NOT CONNECTED
> /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@5/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
>
> Is qlc(0) really /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp.... ? That
> would mean the internal controller would be going bad in the v480,
> right?
>
I think path_to_inst will tell you this. Alternatively, if you have
fcinfo then I think it will tell you the WWNs of things connected to
various ports, and you can check that against disks. It is always
stupidly fiddly to establish this (or perhaps I am just stupidly bad
at it): I wish there was a tool which would draw pictures based on all
the various information, preferably labelled with "THIS IS THE CARD
YOU CARE ABOUT" in huge friendly letters :-)

On Dec 11, 5:33 am, Tim Bradshaw <tfb+goo...@tfeb.org> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 1:26 am, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
> > /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:devctl NOT CONNECTED
> > /devices/pci@8,600000/pci@1/SUNW,qlc@5/fp@0,0:devctl CONNECTED
>
> > Is qlc(0) really /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp.... ? That
> > would mean the internal controller would be going bad in the v480,
> > right?
>
> I think path_to_inst will tell you this. Alternatively, if you have
> fcinfo then I think it will tell you the WWNs of things connected to
> various ports, and you can check that against disks. It is always
> stupidly fiddly to establish this (or perhaps I am just stupidly bad
> at it): I wish there was a tool which would draw pictures based on all
> the various information, preferably labelled with "THIS IS THE CARD
> YOU CARE ABOUT" in huge friendly letters :-)

Thats for people who work in NOCs : >
OpenView, snmp, mibs - that sort of thing

I do not have access to a V480 at the moment but I do recall that you
can
set it up (if not already OOTB) to do redundant pathing internally.
That and other techniques are in the Administration Guide.pdf
and its available with some groping about via sunsolve even without a
"service" plan..

My QLA2000's show up in a luxadm probe.

lahuman9 <lahuman9@gmail.com> wrote:

> unprofessional. I'm sorry I happened to have worked my ass off to
> know what I know, and don't want to give it up freely. Why don't I
> just work for no money at all?

Fine. That's your point of view. And you're of course right to
have such point of view.

Others might see things differently, though.

But I wonder, what in the world are you doing in Usenet then?

Alexander

lahuman9 <lahuman9@gmail.com> wrote:
> unprofessional. I'm sorry I happened to have worked my ass off to
> know what I know, and don't want to give it up freely. Why don't I
> just work for no money at all?

Why the hell are you here, then? You realize that a side effect of this
attitude is that your supposed "expertise" is purely theortical until
demonstrated, right?

There's a difference between "expecting" for help on a newsgroup and "hoping"
for help. Everyone needs help at some point, very often for a trial or
experimental system for which formal support doesn't exist. And if you've
established yourself as someone who basically knows what's going on - say,
by helping some others on the group - the real experts might be more
inclined towards helping YOU. People like Casper, James, and Joerg don't
get the respect they do based purely on reports of billable hours.

I've had plenty of "I've got lots of knowledge, I just don't give it away"
-type customers in the past. By the time they're in over their heads they
always have the most interesting (and educational) problems. So I suppose
people like yourself do serve a purpose, if not an obvious one.

--
Brandon Hume - hume -> BOFH.Ca, http://WWW.BOFH.Ca/

In article <df96aa1b-fa30-4076-84ec-ea6147867b05@b1g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
lahuman9 <lahuman9@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Is there such a thing as "good newsgroup support" or is it just post
>and pray that someone wants to give up their hard earned expertise
>in the matter to someone who doesn't feel their equipment is worth
>paying support for? It's exactly professional to respond in the way
>that I did. You want a service for free that people expect to be
>paid
>for. The fact that you were expecting to get it for free is
>unprofessional. I'm sorry I happened to have worked my ass off to
>know what I know, and don't want to give it up freely. Why don't I
>just work for no money at all?
>
My my! Maybe in your world you've got to pay to play for everything.
I'm glad I don't have to live in it. Living in retirement in the
heart of Flyover Country, as I do, I donate what skills I have with
Solaris to the community.

The Ultra 60's were cheap, Solaris is free for the downloading, and
support begins with man pages. Last I knew, I'm the only Solaris site
on my upstream provider's network (and share a few thing they find
useful to them), and know of only one other Solaris site in the state,
230 miles away. I do look to Sun documentation and the Solaris
newsgroups to support my meager efforts at being the top pro Solaris
administrator in this part of the country. Nothing like being a big
frog in a small pond, I suppose. I do like to think that my efforts
make this community a better place to live, and there are enough
people who ask me to keep doing what I've been doing that I keep doing
it.

Most decidedly unprofessional of me to listen to the 1500-odd people
who feel my continued involvement is beneficial and not expect to be
paid for it too, I suppose---if I were to adopt your values. I happen
to have a few values of my own, such as the notion that after paying
into Social Security for 51 years, it was time to take some out. And
that keeping my hand in some of this computer stuff (among other
things I do for free) beats sitting in some retirement community to
play golf, watch TV, be bored, and wait to die.

So I read the newsgroup, and value very highly the work that people
like Casper Dik, James Carlson, Rich Teer, Greg Andrews, and a few
others put into helping small frogs in small ponds keep a system up
and running.

>Grow up

At my age that's hardly a likely thing. Indeed, I'm rather glad I
don't have to.

Hank