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  • 1.  hardware monitoring (arcconf) fails after some time

    Posted Sep 29, 2015 06:42 AM

    I monitor the status of all logical drives on one of our servers usinf remote arcconf (adaptec controller). All works fine for some time. After a few days the controller can't be monitored anymore using arcconf. No data is returned.

    Once restarting sfcbd-watchdog (/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart) helped. But the last two times a restart isn't possible with the following message:

    /etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop

    Getting Exclusive access, please wait...

    Exclusive access granted.

    sfcbd cannot be stopped, please try again.

    I have to reboot the complete host to get the monitoring working again.

    Any idea? Which log should I check?

    Thanks

    Robert



  • 2.  RE: hardware monitoring (arcconf) fails after some time

    Posted Sep 29, 2015 06:49 AM

    Could you check and post on here the /var/log/syslog.log

    /var/log/hostd.log and /var/log/vmkernel.log might also be useful.

    Thanks



  • 3.  RE: hardware monitoring (arcconf) fails after some time

    Posted Sep 29, 2015 11:42 AM

    Hi,

    I have all three logs attached.

    Relevant might be: "User: 3816: wantCoreDump:sfcb-adaptec_st signal:6 exitCode:0 coredump:disabled" in the vmkernel.log

    In the syslog.log my attempts to restart the sfcb can be seen.

    Thanks

    Robert



  • 4.  RE: hardware monitoring (arcconf) fails after some time

    Posted Nov 13, 2015 06:23 AM

    Hello.

    I have a similar problem with the asr-8405. Is there a solution?



  • 5.  RE: hardware monitoring (arcconf) fails after some time

    Posted Feb 21, 2016 10:01 AM

    Hi,

    ASR71605E and ESXi 5.5

    same Problem here, i have to restart CIM Server Service to get fresh data, but perfoming actions on Maxview is like Lottery.

    Restarting the Server is also a Lottery, because in most cases ther are no disks after an reboot.

    You have to do a complete Power Cycle to get the disks back (Raid and RAW as well).



  • 6.  RE: hardware monitoring (arcconf) fails after some time

    Posted Dec 28, 2016 10:26 AM

    Same shit on esxi 5 and 6.

    Sometimes help 'services.sh restart' but sometimes process sfcbd-watchdog is locked and no possibility to do anything - only restart of esxi helps (like MS windows).