Farm Error Status Codes

Every farm has an error status code that is associated with the farm to indicate whether the farm is currently in an abnormal state.

• The error status code of 0 represents a health state.

• The error status code of 1000 means that the farm manager is processing a request.

• An error status code other than 0 or 1000 means that the farm has an error.

During the request process, the farm's internal state changes whenever the transition process is completed with a success. If the farm fails to transition from one internal state to another internal state, the farm's internal state is not changed and the farm is set with an error status. The value of the error status code is the failed internal state value.

For example, if the farm failed the transition from state ALLOCATED (20) to state WIRED (30), the farm is still left with the internal state ALLOCATED (20) and the farm error status code is set to 30 to represent the failed state WIRED. Just before the code is set to 30, it is 1000 to indicate that the request is in progress.

Whenever a farm error occurs, a critical error message is generated in the system log file /var/adm/messages.

The farm manager will not process any further farm requests until the error condition is changed and the error status code is cleared to 0.