Re: Lengthy SNA Distribution Recovery step in IPL -- MIDRANGE-L

SMTP isn't running. It never should have except for the default of Autostart of *YES and the ALWRLY *ALL (which seems like a dangerous security hole out of the box). This customer never would have used the SMTP server. In fact, they never have. It was the spammers who took advantage of the open relay when the external adapter was mistakenly lit up without filtering applied.

Pete had me *clear on strmsf and it was a pretty instantaneous startup. I am not sure how to look at QMSF entries in the journal.

There may not be any messages waiting to be sent out (leftovers from the spammers). I don't have any indication that something is "leftover" from the open relay outside of the lengthy SNA Distribution Recovery (which could just be a red herring). I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything and clean up, so that all the disk space is recovered and the next IPL will run in minutes, rather than over an hour.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.valadd.com

On 9/1/2010 12:41 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

Are things running ok with your SMTP server now, the only issue is the long
ipl step??

There might be QMSF entries in your journal or possibly you might have some
joblogs that might point to what is going on. Did you do a clear on your
MSF when the problem started.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Pete Helgren<pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jack: They are at V5R4M0. Not completely current, on CUME (9321). I
don't know what Step Code it was, I should have written it down

Pete: I ran the strmsf and it completed normally. No other messages
issued. I am not sure why the IPL is longer but it sure hung up at the
SNA Distribution Recovery step for quite a while (60 minutes, give or
take). Normally, I could bounce this thing in 20 minutes and most of
that time was spent shutting down the IXA and IXS.

Evan: I ran the two commands you suggested. Here is what the job log
shows:

qrydst
Requested distribution complete, 0 distributions.

RCLDLO DLO(*ALL)
All document library objects are being reclaimed.
Activity related to documents and folders is now allowed.
All documents and folders are now available.
*ALL of type *N in folder path *N reclaimed.

All: I'll monitor this at the next IPL and take better notes. I get
zero hits when I google for "SNA Distribution Recovery" (except for
midrange) and without the quotes I don't do much better. Nothing in the
job log during IPL looks abnormal.

Thanks. I'll keep you posted.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.valadd.com

On 9/1/2010 8:50 AM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

What is the IPL step code, what version of I5/os.

Current on PTF's.
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Pete,

I don't know why SNA& Mail relay would make the IPL longer, but
have you tried to do a STRMSF *CLEAR? Instead of the regular STRMSF.

It's a shot in the dark.

Pete

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Subject: Lengthy SNA Distribution Recovery step in IPL

A few weeks back I dealt with an open relay issue on a 520 that I
eventually got sorted out. At least I *thought* I got it sorted out.
The biggest fallout was that there were a jillion spool files generated
in the process and it took a dltsplf and a rclsplstg to get back some
critical space. But I still have my suspicions that there are still
files lurking. What raised my suspicions was that last night when I
IPL'd the SNA Distribution Recovery step took over an hour. When I had
IPL'd the system after the rclsplstg a few weeks ago the SNA
Distribution Recovery step also took equally as long. Seems like SNA is
"recovering" but recovering what?

So the questions are: Why is the IPL taking so long at that step
(instead of minutes, like it used to)? Where should I look for
"leftovers" after the open relay? Could there be undelivered messages
queued up somewhere? WRKDSTQ shows nothing in any of the queues.

Thanks

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Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.valadd.com

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