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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Can I change the times at which the GUI runs HW_INVENTORY and related tasks?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">we frequently get messages like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> gui_refresh_task_failed GUI WARNING 12 hours ago The following GUI refresh task(s) failed: HW_INVENTORY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The tasks fail due to timeouts. Running the task manually most times succeeds. We do run two gui nodes per cluster and I noted that both servers seem run the HW_INVENTORY at the exact
same time which may lead to locking or congestion issues, actually the logs show messages like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">EFSSA0194I Waiting for concurrent operation to complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The gui calls ‘rinv’ on the xCat servers. Rinv for a single little-endian server takes a long time – about 2-3 minutes , while it finishes in about 15s for big-endian server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hence the long runtime of rinv on little-endian systems may be an issue, too<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We run 5.0.4-1 efix9 on the gui and ESS 5.3.4.1 on the GNR systems (5.0.3.2 efix4). We run a mix of ppc64 and ppc64le systems, which a separate xCat/ems server for each type. The GUI
nodes are ppc64le.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We did see this issue with several gpfs version on the gui and with at least two ESS/xCat versions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Just to be sure I did purge the Posgresql tables.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I did try<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lstasklog HW_INVENTORY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">/usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/runtask HW_INVENTORY –debug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And also tried to read the logs in /var/log/cnlog/mgtsrv/ - but they are difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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