Re: IPL Startup and Odd Changes?

[frank boke <fboxxx1958@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, i must have missed the it but did you find out what caused the oddities
after ipl startup?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 10:50 AM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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