01 Oct 07 Welcome to hpux.ws

This site was created for two reasons. It was meant to document procedures, scripts and processes that I felt were important to myself and the greater HP-UX community.

This project is owned by ISN Corporation, a Subchapter S Corporation based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

If you want to contribute to the site, let me know. hpuxadmin in gtalk hpuxconsulting in yahoo messenger

Regards,

Steven “Shmuel” Protter: Rosh Tzurim, Israel

Tags: blog, forums.itrc.hp.com, hpux, itrc

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13 Aug 18 Disk is hung by drd nothing works

claimed on ioscan

fuser -c shows clean

drd is insists the disk is busy

DRD crashed causing the issue.

Don’t want to reboot that is an admission of defeat.

ERROR: Analysis of file system creation fails.
– Analysis of target fails.
– Analysis of the configuration with disk “/dev/disk/disk143” fails.
– The analysis step for creation of an inactive system image failed.
– The default DRD mount point “/var/opt/drd/mnts/sysimage_001/” cannot be used due to the following error(s):
– The mount point /var/opt/drd/mnts/sysimage_001/ is not an empty directory as required.
* Analyzing For System Image Cloning failed with 1 error.
* DRD operation failed, contents of /var/opt/drd/tmp copied to /var/opt/drd/save.

======= 08/13/18 06:39:16 EDT END Clone System Image failed with 1 error. (user=hcladmin) (jobid=ohonq001)

cd /var/opt/drd/mnts/

rm -rf *

scsimgr clear_kmstat -D /dev/rdisk/disk143

scsimgr: Cleared the Kmetric data successfully

DRD nirvana.

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Tags: drd, hpux 11.31, LVM, scsimgr

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24 Jul 18 My spam filter needs spam @ spamdepot@hpux.ws

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30 Nov 17 No downtme migration of mounted filesystem to new storage type

On LVM 1.0 Volume group, the task is no downtime storage migration.
 Hitachi to Pure Solid State storage. Mirror/UX required.
 Disks are almostthe same size:

dbrestore:root > diskinfo /dev/rdisk/disk42
 SCSI describe of /dev/rdisk/disk42:
 vendor: HITACHI
 product id: OPEN-V
 type: direct access
 size: 16777216 Kbytes
 bytes per sector: 512
 dbrestore:root > diskinfo /dev/rdisk/disk52
 SCSI describe of /dev/rdisk/disk52:
 vendor: PURE
 product id: FlashArray
 type: direct access
 size: 10485760 Kbytes
 bytes per sector: 512

pvcreate /dev/rdisk/disk52
 vgextend /dev/vgtest /dev/disk/disk52

Before state:
 dbrestore:root > vgdisplay -v vgtest
 --- Volume groups ---
 VG Name /dev/vgtest
 VG Write Access read/write
 VG Status available
 Max LV 255
 Cur LV 1
 Open LV 1
 Max PV 16
 Cur PV 2
 Act PV 2
 Max PE per PV 4095
 VGDA 4
 PE Size (Mbytes) 4
 Total PE 6654
 Alloc PE 1024
 Free PE 5630
 Total PVG 0
 Total Spare PVs 0
 Total Spare PVs in use 0
 VG Version 1.0
 VG Max Size 262080m
 VG Max Extents 65520

--- Logical volumes ---
 LV Name /dev/vgtest/lvtest
 LV Status available/syncd
 LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
 Current LE 1024
 Allocated PE 1024
 Used PV 1

--- Physical volumes ---
 PV Name /dev/disk/disk42
 PV Status available
 Total PE 4095
 Free PE 4095
 Autoswitch On
 Proactive Polling On

PV Name /dev/disk/disk52
 PV Status available
 Total PE 2559
 Free PE 1535
 Autoswitch On
 Proactive Polling On

dbrestore:root > ioscan -NfnCdisk /dev/disk/disk42
 Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
 ===================================================================
 disk 42 64000/0xfa00/0x21 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HITACHI OPEN-V
 /dev/disk/disk42 /dev/rdisk/disk42
 dbrestore:root > ioscan -NfnCdisk /dev/disk/disk52
 Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
 ===================================================================
 disk 52 64000/0xfa00/0x35 esdisk CLAIMED DEVICE PURE FlashArray
 /dev/disk/disk52 /dev/rdisk/disk52
 dbrestore:root > bdf | grep test
 /dev/vgtest/lvtest 4194304 19544 3913845 0% /test
 dbrestore:root > lvdisplay -v /dev/vgtest/lvtest
 --- Logical volumes ---
 LV Name /dev/vgtest/lvtest
 VG Name /dev/vgtest
 LV Permission read/write
 LV Status available/syncd
 Mirror copies 0
 Consistency Recovery MWC
 Schedule parallel
 LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
 Current LE 1024
 Allocated PE 1024
 Stripes 0
 Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
 Bad block on
 Allocation strict
 IO Timeout (Seconds) default

--- Distribution of logical volume ---
 PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
 /dev/disk/disk42 1024 1024

--- Logical extents ---
 LE PV1 PE1 Status 1
 00000 /dev/disk/disk42 00000 current
 00001 /dev/disk/disk42 00001 current
 00002 /dev/disk/disk42 00002 current
 ...
 01022 /dev/disk/disk42 01022 current
 01023 /dev/disk/disk42 01023 current

dbrestore:root > lvextend -m 1 /dev/vgtest/lvtest /dev/disk/disk52
 The newly allocated mirrors are now being synchronized.This operation will
 take some time. Please wait ....
 Logical volume "/dev/vgtest/lvtest" has been successfully extended.
 Volume Group configuration for /dev/vgtest has been saved in /etc/lvmconf/vgtest.conf
 dbrestore:root > lvdisplay -v /dev/vgtest/lvtest
 --- Logical volumes ---
 LV Name /dev/vgtest/lvtest
 VG Name /dev/vgtest
 LV Permission read/write
 LV Status available/syncd
 Mirror copies 1
 Consistency Recovery MWC
 Schedule parallel
 LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
 Current LE 1024
 Allocated PE 2048
 Stripes 0
 Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
 Bad block on
 Allocation strict
 IO Timeout (Seconds) default

--- Distribution of logical volume ---
 PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
 /dev/disk/disk42 1024 1024
 /dev/disk/disk52 1024 1024

--- Logical extents ---
 LE PV1 PE1 Status 1 PV2 PE2 Status 2
 00000 /dev/disk/disk42 00000 current /dev/disk/disk52 00000 current
 00001 /dev/disk/disk42 00001 current /dev/disk/disk52 00001 current
 00002 /dev/disk/disk42 00002 current /dev/disk/disk52 00002 current
 ...
 01023 /dev/disk/disk42 01023 current /dev/disk/disk52 01023 current

dbrestore:root > bdf | grep test
 /dev/vgtest/lvtest 4194304 19544 3913845 0% /test
 dbrestore:root > lvreduce -m 0 /dev/vgtest/lvtest /dev/disk/disk42
 Logical volume "/dev/vgtest/lvtest" has been successfully reduced.
 Volume Group configuration for /dev/vgtest has been saved in /etc/lvmconf/vgtest.conf
 dbrestore:root > bdf | grep test
 /dev/vgtest/lvtest 4194304 19544 3913845 0% /test
 dbrestore:root > lvdisplay -v /dev/vgtest/lvtest
 --- Logical volumes ---
 LV Name /dev/vgtest/lvtest
 VG Name /dev/vgtest
 LV Permission read/write
 LV Status available/syncd
 Mirror copies 0
 Consistency Recovery MWC
 Schedule parallel
 LV Size (Mbytes) 4096
 Current LE 1024
 Allocated PE 1024
 Stripes 0
 Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
 Bad block on
 Allocation strict
 IO Timeout (Seconds) default

--- Distribution of logical volume ---
 PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
 /dev/disk/disk52 1024 1024

--- Logical extents ---
 LE PV1 PE1 Status 1
 00000 /dev/disk/disk52 00000 current
 00001 /dev/disk/disk52 00001 current

...
 01023 /dev/disk/disk52 01023 current

dbrestore:root > bdf | grep test
 /dev/vgtest/lvtest 4194304 19544 3913845 0% /test
 dbrestore:root >

Tags: HP-UX, LVM, no downtime hp-ux storage migration

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28 Nov 17 An xpinfo that works in hpvm guests and on non Hitachi storage

Hitachi shops faced annoyance times two:
1. xpinfo does not work on non-Hitachi storage for example Pure storage
2. xpinfo does not work on hpvm guests depending on how the storage is passed through from the hpvm host

I now present xpinfonew which though raw and unfnished
The output:

myserv0:root > ./xpinfonew
Device path ldev
==========================================================================
/dev/rdisk/disk111 =:=
/dev/rdisk/disk12 30:86
/dev/rdisk/disk172 03:f3
/dev/rdisk/disk215 46:2c
/dev/rdisk/disk216 46:30
/dev/rdisk/disk217 46:34
/dev/rdisk/disk218 46:38
/dev/rdisk/disk219 46:28
/dev/rdisk/disk220 46:25
/dev/rdisk/disk221 46:27
/dev/rdisk/disk222 46:2a
/dev/rdisk/disk223 46:2e
/dev/rdisk/disk224 46:32
/dev/rdisk/disk225 46:2b
/dev/rdisk/disk226 46:2f
/dev/rdisk/disk227 46:33
/dev/rdisk/disk237 46:37
/dev/rdisk/disk238 46:36
/dev/rdisk/disk239 46:26
/dev/rdisk/disk240 46:29
/dev/rdisk/disk241 46:2d
/dev/rdisk/disk242 46:31
/dev/rdisk/disk243 46:35
/dev/rdisk/disk244 46:39
/dev/rdisk/disk4 aa:bf
/dev/rdisk/disk5 8b:c3
/dev/rdisk/disk6 03:a6
/dev/rdisk/disk9 01:00

myserv0:root > ./xpinfonew raw
Device path ldev
==========================================================================
/dev/rdisk/disk111 =
/dev/rdisk/disk12 3086
/dev/rdisk/disk172 03f3
/dev/rdisk/disk215 462c
/dev/rdisk/disk216 4630
/dev/rdisk/disk217 4634
/dev/rdisk/disk218 4638
/dev/rdisk/disk219 4628
/dev/rdisk/disk220 4625
/dev/rdisk/disk221 4627
/dev/rdisk/disk222 462a
/dev/rdisk/disk223 462e
/dev/rdisk/disk224 4632
/dev/rdisk/disk225 462b
/dev/rdisk/disk226 462f
/dev/rdisk/disk227 4633
/dev/rdisk/disk237 4637
/dev/rdisk/disk238 4636
/dev/rdisk/disk239 4626
/dev/rdisk/disk240 4629
/dev/rdisk/disk241 462d
/dev/rdisk/disk242 4631
/dev/rdisk/disk243 4635
/dev/rdisk/disk244 4639
/dev/rdisk/disk4 aabf
/dev/rdisk/disk5 8bc3
/dev/rdisk/disk6 03a6
/dev/rdisk/disk9 0100

cat xpinfonew
#!/bin/ksh
# Get ldev from any disk regardless of storage provider
#
# 10/26/2017 Steven “Shmuel” Protter steven.protter@hcl.com
#

echo “Device path \t\t ldev ”
echo “==========================================================================”

ioscan -NfnCdisk | awk ‘/rdisk/{ print $(NF) }’ | awk -F_ ‘{ print $1 }’ | sort -u |while read -r dv
do
ldev=$(/var/adm/bin/getldev.ksh ${dv} ${1} );
echo “${dv} \t ${ldev}”
done

The code:
cat /var/adm/bin/getldev.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
# Get ldev from any disk regardless of storage provider
#
# 10/26/2017 Steven “Shmuel” Protter steven.protter@hcl.com
#
argies=$#
if [ $argies -eq 0 ]
then
echo “———— 1 argument required device path ex: /dev/rdisk/disk101 ————-”
exit 1
fi
dv=$1
fmt=$2
## /usr/sbin/scsimgr lun_map -D ${dv} | awk ‘/World Wide Identifier/{ print $(NF) }’
rldev=$(/usr/sbin/scsimgr lun_map -D ${dv} | awk ‘/World Wide Identifier/{ print substr ( $NF, length($NF) – 3, length($NF) ) }’);

l1=$(echo ${rldev} | awk ‘{ print substr ( $NF, length($NF) – 3, 2 ) }’);
l2=$(echo ${rldev} | awk ‘{ print substr ( $NF, length($NF) – 1, length($NF) ) }’);

### echo “raw: ${rldev} l1: ${l1} l2: ${l2} …”
if [ “$fmt” = “raw” ]
then
echo ${rldev}
else
echo “${l1}:${l2}”
fi

Should work on any SAN based storage

Tags: HP-UX, hpux, storage ldev, storage ldev works in hpvm guests, xpinfo improvement

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01 Aug 17 Need a longer hostname 8+ Don’t forget the kernel parameter

Host names need to be descriptive. The trend toward longer names has been going on for years.

As a legacy Unix, HP-UX CAN keep up.

kctune -v expanded_node_host_names

mygush0:root > kctune -v expanded_node_host_names
Tunable expanded_node_host_names
Description Enables expanded node and host names (read manpage for warnings)
Module sysconfig
Current Value 0 [Default]
Value at Next Boot 0 [Default]
Value at Last Boot 0
Default Value 0
Constraints expanded_node_host_names >= 0
expanded_node_host_names <= 1
Can Change Immediately or at Next Boot

hostname is set in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

But to make the system fully compatible the kernel needs to be set.

mygush0:root > kctune expanded_node_host_names=1
==> Update the automatic ‘backup’ configuration first? y
* The automatic ‘backup’ configuration has been updated.
* Future operations will update the backup without prompting.
WARNING: Setting the expanded_node_host_names parameter to 1 will allow
administrators to set node and host names larger than 8 and 64
characters/bytes, respectively. It is strongly recommended
that all related manpages and documentation be understood
before setting larger names. Larger names can cause some
applications which use those names to behave incorrectly or
fail.
* The requested changes have been applied to the currently
running configuration.
Tunable Value Expression Changes
expanded_node_host_names (before) 0 Default Immed
(now) 1 1
mygush0:root > kctune -v expanded_node_host_names
Tunable expanded_node_host_names
Description Enables expanded node and host names (read manpage for warnings)
Module sysconfig
Current Value 1
Value at Next Boot 1
Value at Last Boot 0
Default Value 0
Constraints expanded_node_host_names >= 0
expanded_node_host_names <= 1
Can Change Immediately or at Next Boot

Good to go.

Tags: hp-ux long hostnames

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28 Apr 17 Handle with care: TCP wrappers /etc/hosts.allow

Real life story.

DMZ based server dedicated to SFTP was configured with sshd rules in /etc/hosts.allow
sshd : ALL@16.89.97.*:ALLOW
sshd : ALL@14.251.*:ALLOW
sshd : AAL@208.94.61.*:ALLOW

Should have been:

sshd : ALL@16.89.97.*:ALLOW
sshd : ALL@14.251.*:ALLOW
sshd : ALL@208.94.61.*:ALLOW

That network was the firewall to the outside world.

The end users were inconvenienced and the firewall team wasted a lot of time reviewing rues and looking at logs.

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09 Feb 17 A Script to identify entries for a particular user

Starting a series on automation scripting.

This one is meant to be run from a master of the universe host, eg a host with root public keys placed on all work servers.

cat searchforid.ksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# test script
#
. ./.scriptenv
# provides standardization for example SSH_CMD=”ssh -q -f -o ConnectionAttempts=3 -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o BatchMode=yes”

LF=”${LOGDIR}/${0}.logfile.txt”
> ${LF}
sc=0

uid=$1
date >> ${LF}

awk ‘{ print $1 }’ $serverlist | while read -r hn
do
echo “################### ${hn} searching for user ${uid} ######################”
echo “################### ${hn} searching for user ${uid} ######################” >> ${LF}
if [ “${hn}” != “mygush0” ]
then
${SSH_CMD} ${hn} “grep ${uid} /opt/iexpress/sudo/etc/sudoers;grep ${uid} /etc/passwd”
sleep 5
${SSH_CMD} ${hn} “grep ${uid} /opt/iexpress/sudo/etc/sudoers;grep ${uid} /etc/passwd” >> ${LF}

else
grep ${uid} /opt/iexpress/sudo/etc/sudoers;grep ${uid} /etc/passwd
grep ${uid} /opt/iexpress/sudo/etc/sudoers >> ${LF};grep ${uid} /etc/passwd >> ${LF}
echo “#######################################################################################################”
echo “#######################################################################################################” >> ${LF}

fi
done
echo “Success count: ${sc} ” >> ${LF}

Tags: automation script, hp-ux script, user search script

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19 Jan 17 Getting rid of an incorrectly corrupt fileset

swlist -l fileset -a state | grep -E -v ‘^#|conf’ ###

VParProvider.VPAR-DOC corrupt

If re-installation does not wotk, try this on specially selected (re non-critical) filesets.

# swmodify -a state=configured VParProvider.VPAR-DOC

swlist -l fileset -a state | grep -E -v ‘^#|conf’ ###

Clean!

Tags: hp-ux corrupt filesets

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21 Jun 16 Removing a serviceguard package from a cluster.

First stop package

umount any filesysytem

Pull back vg’s and disk.

Then:
sglabn2:root > cmviewcl

CLUSTER STATUS
sglabn_cluster up

NODE STATUS STATE
sglabn1 up running
sglabn2 up running

PACKAGE STATUS STATE AUTO_RUN NODE
test_pkg up running enabled sglabn2

UNOWNED_PACKAGES

PACKAGE STATUS STATE AUTO_RUN NODE
dbciLP1 down failed disabled unowned
sglabn2:root > cmdeleteconf -v -p dbciLP1
Maximum configured packages parameter is 300.
Configuring 0 new packages.
Total number of packages configured in the cluster is 2.

Modify the package configuration ([y]/n)? y
Completed the package deletion
sglabn2:root > cmviewcl

CLUSTER STATUS
sglabn_cluster up

NODE STATUS STATE
sglabn1 up running
sglabn2 up running

PACKAGE STATUS STATE AUTO_RUN NODE
test_pkg up running enabled sglabn2
sglabn2:root >

Tags: remove serviceguard package, serviceguard configuration

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16 May 16 NFS with lots of small files:pump up performance

Three kernel parameters that might pump up NFS throughput. Your mileage may vary.

kctune nfs_enable_write_behind=1
kctune nfs_enable_ufc_threshold=1
kctune nfs3_ufc_threshold_percentage=50

Tags: hpux, nfs, nfs kernel parameters, nfs performance

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01 Oct 07 Welcome to hpux.ws

13 Aug 18 Disk is hung by drd nothing works

24 Jul 18 My spam filter needs spam @ spamdepot@hpux.ws

30 Nov 17 No downtme migration of mounted filesystem to new storage type

28 Nov 17 An xpinfo that works in hpvm guests and on non Hitachi storage

01 Aug 17 Need a longer hostname 8+ Don’t forget the kernel parameter

28 Apr 17 Handle with care: TCP wrappers /etc/hosts.allow

09 Feb 17 A Script to identify entries for a particular user

19 Jan 17 Getting rid of an incorrectly corrupt fileset

21 Jun 16 Removing a serviceguard package from a cluster.

16 May 16 NFS with lots of small files:pump up performance

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