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MAP1100 Sections 25 and Resource State information

MAP1100 Section-25, Display Details for a Resource State

About this task

Note: If the Large File Transfer (the tenth System Check Type status from the top) is FAILED, this System Check Type cannot be displayed.

Procedure

  1. Figure 1 is an example of the detail window for the resources state (in this example, an error condition is not shown).
    Figure 1. Window: Details of a resource state
    Window: Details of a resource state
  2. Description: A resource has unexpected status.
  3. Action: Display and repair any open related serviceable events. If there are none, contact your next level of support. The next level of support must remotely connect to repair this condition.

MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States

Procedure

Perform the following steps to determine the resource state:
  1. From the navigation area, click Storage Facility Management > storage facility.
  2. From the bottom Task area, click Service Utilities > View Storage Facility Resource States. The View Resources State window opens.
  3. Scroll down to see the states of the various resources.
    Figure 2. Window: View Resource States
    Window: View Resource States

MAP1100 Section-29, Storage Facility Power State

Procedure

  1. Display the resource state details. See MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States.
  2. Check the state of the IBM.EssStorageFacility resource. The normal state=0. See Table 1 for the storage facility power states that are possible.
    Table 1. Storage facility power states (powerState=)
    State Meaning
    -1 Undetermined
    0 On
    1 Off
    2 Powering On
    3 Powering Off
    4 Power Exception

MAP1100 Section-30, CEC enclosure

About this task

There are two CEC enclosures in each storage facility. The CEC enclosures are shown as SF systems on the management console.

Procedure

Perform the following steps to determine the state of the storage facility systems:
  1. From the navigation area, click Storage Facility Management > storage facility > Server View.
  2. In the right content area, find the storage facility state. For example, Server-9117-MMA-SN13AABF0 Operating.

MAP1100 Section-31, Storage Facility Partitions

Procedure

Perform the following steps to determine the state of the storage facility partitions:
  1. From the navigation area, click Storage Facility Management > storage facility > Server View > server.
  2. In the right content area, find the storage facility state. For example, Server-9117-MMA-SN13AABF0 Operating.
  3. Find the storage facility partition state. For example, SF1300150ESS11 Running.

MAP1100 Section-32, Storage Facility Image LPARs

Procedure

  1. Display the resource details. See MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States.
  2. Check the state of the IBM.EssServer resource. The normal state is state=0. See Table 2 for the storage facility image server states that are possible:
    Table 2. Storage facility image server states
    State Meaning Description
    0 Online The server is operational.
    1 Offline The server is in service mode.
    2 Resuming The server is in the process of going online.
    3 Quiescing The server is in the process of going offline.
    4 Fenced The server has been fenced by the storage facility image.
  3. To see additional information for LPAR status, see MAP1260 Displaying the storage facility image (SFI) state.

MAP1100 Section-33, Storage Facility Images

Procedure

  1. Display the resource details. See MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States.
  2. Check the state of the IBM.EssStorageFacilityImage resource. See Table 3 for the storage facility image states that are possible.
    Table 3. Storage facility image states
    State Meaning Description
    0 Online The storage facility image is running and capable of processing all storage facility image functions.
    1 Offline Both of the associated LPARs are offline.
    2 Resuming The storage facility image is in the process of coming online.
    3 Quiescing The storage facility image is in the process of going offline.
    4 Quiescing Exception The storage facility image is attempting to quiesce, but there are conditions that prevent a normal quiesce from completing.
    5 Forced Quiescing The storage facility image is in the process of performing a forced quiesce operation.
    6 Fenced The storage facility image has failed and is offline.

MAP1100 Section-35, Host Adapters and Ports

Procedure

  1. Display the resource details. See MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States.
  2. Check the state of the IBM.EssHA resource and the IBM.EssHAPort resource. See Table 4 and Table 5 for the host adapter and host adapter port states that are possible:
    Table 4. Host adapter states
    State Meaning Description
    0 Online The host adapter is operational.
    1 Offline The host adapter is in service mode.
    2 Resuming The host adapter is in the process of coming online.
    3 Quiescing The host adapter is in the process of going offline.
    6 Fenced The host adapter has been fenced by the storage facility image.
    Table 5. Host adapter port states
    State Meaning Description
    0 Online The I/O port is enabled to operate in the enabled ULPs.
    1 Offline The I/O port is not operational on the attached I/O interface.
    2 Resuming The I/O port is in the process of going online.
    3 Quiescing The I/O port is in the process of going offline.
    6 Fenced The I/O adapter for this I/O port is not configured to this storage facility image.

MAP1100 Section-36, Device Adapter

Procedure

  1. Display the resource details. See MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States.
  2. Check the state of the IBM.EssDA resource. See Table 6 for the device adapter states that are possible:
    Table 6. Device adapter states
    State Meaning Description
    0 Online The device adapter is operational.
    1 Offline The device adapter is not operational.

MAP1100 Section-37, Display Rack Power System Resources

Procedure

Perform the following steps to determine the state of the RPC cards:
Note: The normal state is Available.
  1. From the navigation area, click Storage Facility Management > storage facility.
  2. From the bottom Task area, click Service Utilities > Activate/Deactivate Resources. The Show Resources window opens.
  3. Click Show Rack Enclosures. The Show Rack Enclosures window opens
  4. Select a rack and then click Show FRUs. The Show Rack FRUs window opens. See Figure 3.
    Figure 3. Window: Show Rack FRUs
    Window: Show Rack FRUs
  5. The RPC cards, PPS and rack batteries status is shown in the list.

MAP1100 Section-38, DDMs State

Procedure

  1. Display the resource details. See MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States.
  2. Check the state of the IBM.EssDDM resource. See Table 7 for the DDM states that are possible.
    Table 7. DDM states
    State Meaning Description
    0 Normal The storage device is operational and functional in its current disk usage.
    1 Installing A new storage device has been discovered.
    2 Verifying The storage device is made accessible to the device adapter, its characteristics are determined, cabling is checked, and diagnostics are run.
    3 Formatting A verified storage device requires low-level formatting and the formatting operation is in progress.
    4 Initializing The storage device is being initialized with all zero sectors.
    5 Certifying The storage device is being read accessed to determine that all sectors can be read.
    6 Rebuilding Sparing has occurred and this formerly spare storage device is being rebuilt with data of the array for which it is now an array member.
    7 Migration Target DDM migration is migrating another array member storage device to this spare storage device.
    8 Migrating Source DDM migration is migrating another array member storage device to this spare storage device.
    9 Failed The storage device has failed and an immediate repair action is required.
    10 Failed - Deferred Service The storage device has failed and a repair action is not immediately required.

MAP1100 Section-39, FCIC Card State

Procedure

  1. Display the resource state details. See MAP1100 Section-28, Displaying Resource States.
  2. Check the state of the IBM.EssFCIC resources. See Table 8 for the FCIC card states that are possible:
    Table 8. FCIC card states
    State Meaning
    0 Online
    1 Offline