Re: IPL Startup and Odd Changes?

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Paul.

Nope, they kept everything the same.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:20 PM Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Brad,
>
> With the move to the new building, would this now be on a different/new
> network/and/or firewalls?
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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> Subject: IPL Startup and Odd Changes?
>
> Ok, this is a little strange so bear with me.
>
> I work with a client and they recently moved buildings.  Yesterday when
> they brought the system back up there were some oddities:
>
> 1.  Every web server instance was started, including APACHEDFT (which is
> set to not autostart).  This of course stopped their real web server
> instance from starting.  Easily fixed.
>
> 2.  The QUSRWRK subsystem was not started.  This caused the SSHD server to
> not  start which in turn means their node job(s) weren't running.  This
> again was fixed by starting the subsystem, starting SSHD and then starting
> the node job.
>
> 3.  QNTC wasn't showing any shares available (which are very important in
> their applications).  I couldn't get those back.
>
> So, we thought something went wrong with the IPL.  Didn't see anything in
> the job log or QSYSOPR or in QPGMR for the job log for QSTRUP.
>
> So they IPLd last night again.
>
> This morning QHTTPSVR subsystem and NO web jobs were running (which is
> opposite of what happened before).
>
> QUSRWRK was not running.  I started the web jobs and QUSRWRK, SSHD and
> then checked QNTC (after doing this, I wish I would have before).  All the
> shares were now there.
>
> So this is odd... why would these subsystems/etc be not starting during an
> IPL?  And why the oddities with QNTC?
>
> They IPL once a week and never had this issue before.  I don't think the
> move to the new building would have had any effect, but I thought I'd
> mention it since it's the only thing we can think of that changed.
>
> No PTFs installed recently either.   V7R3.
>
> Bradley V. Stone
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