General Troubleshooting Approach

Although there is no one procedure that will enable you to evaluate all problems with Solaris Volume Manager, the following process provides one general approach that might help.

1. Gather information about current configuration.

2. Look at the current status indicators, including the output from the metastat and metadb commands. There should be information here that indicates which component is faulty.

3. Check the hardware for obvious points of failure. (Is everything connected properly? Was there a recent electrical outage? Have you recently added or changed equipment?)