[geeks] Sun SSP monkeying - any SSP 'experts' about?

[Jonathan Katz]

Anything in the docs I gave you? Also, there is a /var/SUNWsms or
/var/lib/ssp or something that may have the locks for who's the
master.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:45 PM, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
> I have ended up with a pair of E10ks (one since dismantled for spares),
> and a triplet of SSPs. Entertainingly, through surprise and misadventure
> (and quite possibly related to the eventual decommissioning of both the
> E10ks), all three of the SSPs are the "Spare" SSPs - not the MAINs.
>
> The one that already has the EEPROMs for the unit I'm trying to bring up
> appears to not be fully installed right - it gives me the following each
> time I try and run something useful:
> fo_clt_get_host_role: door_call() failed, errno: 9
> Unable to determine role of SSP
> Is SSP initialization complete?
>
> The other two (one is a mirror of the other, I suspect one _was_ the MAIN
> for that E10k, but it's internal disk died and it was simply cloned from
> the corresponding Spare) do not give me such errors - but won't execute
> any commands (ignoring the key differences to the E10k) because it's the
> Spare SSP.
>
> All three machines are running SSP v3.5.0. The documentation suggests that
> the appropriate way to force a fail-over is to run:
> $ setfailover force
> However I'm told (by setfailover) that the command can only be run _on_
> the MAIN... which appears to badly defeat the purpose of having a failover
> setup, unless it failed in such a graceful way as to allow the Spare to
> be told to take-over.
>
> I've tried doing an ssp-unconfig/ssp-config to rebuild the setup on the
> first SSP (with the init complaints), but it never actually asks the
> question "Am I the MAIN SSP?" at the end like the documentation says it
> should.
>
> Frankly, I'm running out of braincells here to come up with something else
> to try.
>
> I'd sure love some suggestions.
>
>  - JP
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