VCS 5.1 SP1 Zone agent returning offline even though the resource is online
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Description
Error Message
2011/01/25 12:18:18 VCS NOTICE V-16-1-10301 Initiating Online of Resource res_z1 (Owner: Unspecified, Group: res_zone1) on System sys2a
2011/01/25 12:18:21 VCS WARNING V-16-10001-14056 (sys2a) Zone:res_z1:monitor:Zone is running without specified milestone [multi-user] online - returning offline.
Cause
From VCS 5.1 SP1 and above, VCS Zone agent attribute BootState's default value is changed to "multi-user".
Excerpt from /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/types.cf file.
type Zone (
[...]
str BootState = multi-user
[...]
)
During Zone/monitor, the agent checks for the milestone specified in BootState attribute and returns the status accordingly.
Once the specified milestone comes online monitor returns online for the zone resource. Zones may take some time to enter multi-user milestone. If monitor is called before this, above message is printed and resource is returned as offline.
If Zone takes more then 2 monitor cycles to enter multi-user mode, then Agent calls clean and faults the Zone resource.
Resolution
Ensure that milestone specified in BootState attribute is online for the zone using the below command from global zone.
# zlogin svcs -o STATE -H milestone/multi-user
If a local zone takes more than 2 minutes to online multi-user milestore, increase the OnlineWaitLimit of Zone resource accordingly.
Use below procedure to increase the time from 2 to 5 monitor cycles to allow local zone to online configured BootState.
# haconf -makerw
# hatype -modify Zone OnlineWaitLimit 5
# haconf -dump -makero
Applies To
Solaris 10 with non-branded Zones running VCS 51SP1 and above.
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