"VCS WARNING V-16-10001-7505 (server02) NIC:csgnic:monitor: (0) is less than or equal to (0): Resource is offline" is reported by the VCS NIC agent if no NetworkHosts are configured for the NIC agent

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Description

Error Message

2006/09/05 03:57:17 VCS WARNING V-16-10001-7505 (server01) NIC:csgnic:monitor:(0) is less than or equal to (0): Resource is offline
2006/09/05 03:58:16 VCS WARNING V-16-10001-7505 (server01) NIC:csgnic:monitor:(0) is less than or equal to (0): Resource is offline
2006/09/05 03:58:17 VCS WARNING V-16

Resolution


If no NetworkHosts are configured, VCS NIC agent use netstat -ni as explained in article 234400.
Solaris 10 1/06 with Kernel 118822-29 have a known bug of bge drivers BUG ID 6342824, It can not gather the information from bge0 and bge1 and display all the traffic under lo0 for ipkts and opkts which NIC Agent monitoring script use for comparing & making the decision.

Apply Solaris 10 kernel patch 118822-30 with bge driver patch 122027-04.

VCS Config

group nic (
       SystemList = { server01 = 0, server02 = 1 }
       Parallel = 1
       )

       NIC csgnic (
               Device = bge0
               )

       Phantom nicphant (
               Critical = 0
               )



       // resource dependency tree
       //
       //      group nic
       //      {
       //      NIC csgnic
       //      Phantom nicphant
       //      }

Before Applying the Patch

#uname -a
SunOS labdxb01 5.10 Generic_118822-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,A70


netstat -ni

Name  Mtu  Net/Dest      Address        Ipkts  Ierrs Opkts  Oerrs Collis Queue
lo0   8232 127.0.0.0     127.0.0.1      220121 0     220121 0     0      0    
bge0  1500 192.168.100.0 192.168.100.100 0      0     0      0     0      0    


After Applying the Patch

bash-3.00# hastatus -sum

-- SYSTEM STATE
-- System               State                Frozen

A  labdxb01             RUNNING              0
A  labdxb02             RUNNING              0

-- GROUP STATE
-- Group           System               Probed     AutoDisabled    State

B  ClusterService  labdxb01             Y          N               ONLINE
B  ClusterService  labdxb02             Y          N               OFFLINE
B  nic             labdxb01             Y          N               ONLINE
B  nic             labdxb02             Y          N               ONLINE



bash-3.00# netstat -ni
Name  Mtu  Net/Dest      Address        Ipkts  Ierrs Opkts  Oerrs Collis Queue
lo0   8232 127.0.0.0     127.0.0.1      4885   0     4885   0     0      0
bge0  1500 192.168.100.0 192.168.100.100 1741   0     1983   0     0      0

bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS labdxb01 5.10 Generic_118822-30 sun4u sparc SUNW,A70

 
 

 

Issue/Introduction

VCS NIC agent will fail with the following message in engine_A.log if no NetworkHosts configured for NIC agent. Running Solaris 10 1/06 Kernel 118822-29 with bge0 & bge1 interface configured as Device for NIC resource "VCS WARNING V-16-10001-7505 (server02) NIC:csgnic:monitor: (0) is less than or equal to (0): Resource is offline"