Overview of Troubleshooting the System

This chapter describes some DiskSuite problems and their appropriate solution. It is not intended to be all-inclusive but rather to present common scenarios and recovery procedures.

Prerequisites for Troubleshooting the System

Here are the prerequisites for the steps in this section:

• Have root privilege.

• Have a current backup of all data.

General Guidelines for Troubleshooting DiskSuite

Have the following information on hand when troubleshooting a DiskSuite problem:

• Contents of the /etc/vfstab file

• Status of state database replicas, metadevices, and hot spares, either from DiskSuite Tool or from the output of the metadb(1M) and metastat(1M) commands

• Disk partitioning information, either from the prtvtoc(1M) command or Storage Manager (Solaris systems), or the fdisk command (x86 systems)

• Solaris version

• Solaris patches

• DiskSuite patches