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Re: [Xen-users] how to debug hardware lockups?

To: "Stefan Bauer" <stefan.bauer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] how to debug hardware lockups?
From: "Rudi Ahlers" <rudiahlers@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:45:33 +0200
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a server which locks up about once a week (for the past 3
>> weeks now), without any warning, and the only way to recover it, is to
>> reset the server. This causes unwanted downtime, and often software
>> loss as well.
>>
>> How do I debug the server, which runs CentOS 5.2 to see why it locks
>> up? The CPU is an Intel Q9300 Core 2 Quad, with 8 GB RAM, on an Intel
>> Motherboard
>>
>> The last few entries before the server froze, is:
>>
>>
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:59008
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
>> [127.0.0.1]:59008
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:47729
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
>> [127.0.0.1]:47729
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:47890
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
>> [127.0.0.1]:47890
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:50023
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
>> [127.0.0.1]:50023
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Connection from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:58459
>> Nov 15 07:15:20 saturn snmpd[2527]: Received SNMP packet(s) from UDP:
>> [127.0.0.1]:58459
>> Nov 15 10:10:10 saturn syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
>
> Rudi,
>
> i just wondering what these SNMP-Packages are for? I know from some of
> my Accesspoints, that they are able to get rebootet by snmp.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> stefan
>
> _______________________________________________


The server has Cacti installed to monitor bandwidwth of the switches,
and XEN VPS's, hence the 5 minute snmp entries, but there's nothing
configured that can shut it down.

The server literally just freezes up, and we need to send someone to
the datacentre to reboot it.


-- 

Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers

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