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IV35487: POLLER INCORRECTLY STOPPING THE MONITORS WHILE PROCESSING THE TOPOLOGY UPDATES UPON COMPLETION OF DISCOVERY.

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APAR status

  • Closed as program error.

Error description

  • v3.9.0.68 (v3.9.0.71 -GA refresh build) - platform independent.
    
    Upon completion of discovery, poller incorrectly stops monitors
    resulting in no polling on many devices.
    
    Replication steps:
    1) Do a full discovery and enable few policies, in this example
    we are tracking 'SNMP Link State' policy.
    
    2) Take the dump of 'select * from monitors.current;' from
    service SnmpPoller using ncp_oql.
    
    After very first discovery - poller has following entity from
    above query output:
    
    {
            MAINNODEENTITYID=6620600;
            MAINNODEADDRESS='101.1.1.1';
            MAINNODEENTITYNAME='THIRD_PARTY_NETWORK';
            ENTITYCLASS='NetcoolMPLS';
            LINGERTIME=3;
            CHASSISMANAGED=NULL;
            ENTITYID=6620600;
            ENTITYNAME='THIRD_PARTY_NETWORK';
            ENTITYTYPE=1;
            ACCESSIPADDRESS='101.1.1.1';
            MONITOREDINSTID=1;
            ISMANAGED='true';
            LASTPOLLTIME='2013-01-17 09:59:17';
            LASTPOLLINTERVAL=120;
            LASTPOLLFAILURE='2013-01-17 09:59:17';
            TEMPLATEID=4;
            TEMPLATENAME='SNMP Link State';
            POLICYID=4;
            POLICYNAME='SNMP Link State';
            CURRENTTIME='2013-01-17 09:59:26';
    }
    
    
    3) Do another full discovery and wait for Poller sync with
    latest topology - at this time, take dump of another set of
    'select * from monitors.current;' query:
    
    The results are:
    
    {
            MAINNODEENTITYID=6620600;
            MAINNODEADDRESS='101.1.1.1';
            MAINNODEENTITYNAME='THIRD_PARTY_NETWORK';
            ENTITYCLASS='NetcoolMPLS';
            LINGERTIME=3;
            CHASSISMANAGED=NULL;
            ENTITYID=6620600;
            ENTITYNAME='THIRD_PARTY_NETWORK';
            ENTITYTYPE=1;
            ACCESSIPADDRESS='101.1.1.1';
            MONITOREDINSTID=1;
            ISMANAGED='true';
            LASTPOLLTIME='1969-12-31 19:00:00';  <==not polling
            LASTPOLLINTERVAL=120;
            LASTPOLLFAILURE='2013-01-17 10:07:17';
            TEMPLATEID=4;
            TEMPLATENAME='SNMP Link State';
            POLICYID=4;
            POLICYNAME='SNMP Link State';
            CURRENTTIME='2013-01-17 10:47:32';
    }
    
    
    As you can see above - 'LASTPOLLTIME='1969-12-31 19:00:00';' -
    which means, Poller stopped polling this device.
    

Local fix

  • Restart Poller upon completion of discovery.
    

Problem summary

  • ****************************************************************
    * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
    * All ITNM 3.9 Users.                                          *
    ****************************************************************
    * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
    * Upon completion of discovery, poller incorrectly stops       *
    * monitors                                                     *
    * resulting in no polling on many devices.                     *
    ****************************************************************
    * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
    * | fix pack | 3.9.0-ITNMIP-FP0003                             *
    ****************************************************************
    

Problem conclusion

  • When notification is for interface we only process for polls
    that have interface filters.  When we do process
    we remove the entity from the monitor and if this renders the
    monitor empty we remove the monitor.
    

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

  • APAR number

    IV35487

  • Reported component name

    NC/PRECISIONIP

  • Reported component ID

    5724O52RC

  • Reported release

    390

  • Status

    CLOSED PER

  • PE

    NoPE

  • HIPER

    NoHIPER

  • Special Attention

    NoSpecatt

  • Submitted date

    2013-01-18

  • Closed date

    2013-02-12

  • Last modified date

    2013-02-12

  • 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

    NC/PRECISIONIP

  • Fixed component ID

    5724O52RC

Applicable component levels

  • R390 PSN

       UP

  • R390 PSY

       UP

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Document Information

Modified date:
12 February 2013