IJ40567: CNSA HEALTH EVENT PMSENSORS_DOWN

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Restart of the pmsensors process in the container
  environment failed due to a race condition on apid file.
  pmsensors remained down, not collecting perfmon statistics.
  

Local fix

• Manually start pmsensors process
  

Problem summary

• Restart of the pmsensors process in the container
  environment failed due to a race condition on apid file.
  pmsensors remained down, not collecting perfmon statistics.
  

Problem conclusion

• This problem is fixed in 5.1.4 PTF 1
  To see all Spectrum Scale APARs and
  their respective fix solutions refer to page
  https://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/spectrumscale/spectrum_scale_
  apars.html
  
  Benefits of the solution:
  Restart of the pmsensors process in the
  container environment always succeeds
  
  Work Around:
  Manually start pmsensors process
  Problem trigger:
  Failover of perfmon singleton node CLUSTER_PERF_SENSOR
  to another node requires pmsensors
  restart on old and new node.
  Symptom:
  mmhealth event pmsensors_down in CNSA
  Platforms affected:
  Linux Only
  Functional Area affected:
  perfmon, sysmon
  Customer Impact:
  Medium importance
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  SPEC SCALE STD

• Fixed component ID

  5737F33AP

Applicable component levels