Veritas Access Appliance 8.3 Troubleshooting Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (8.3)
Platform: Veritas 3360,Veritas 3350,Veritas 3340
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      General tips for the troubleshooting process
    3.  
      General techniques for the troubleshooting process
  2. General troubleshooting procedures
    1.  
      About general troubleshooting procedures
    2.  
      Viewing the Access Appliance log files
    3.  
      About event logs
    4.  
      Setting the CIFS log level
    5.  
      Setting the NetBackup client log levels and debugging options
    6.  
      Retrieving and sending debugging information
    7.  
      Collecting time-based and archived logs
  3. Monitoring Access Appliance
    1.  
      About monitoring Access Appliance operations
    2.  
      Monitoring hardware components
  4. Common recovery procedures
    1.  
      About common recovery procedures
    2.  
      Restarting servers
    3.  
      Restarting cluster services
    4. Bringing services online
      1.  
        Using the services command
    5.  
      Recovering from a non-graceful shutdown
    6.  
      Testing the network connectivity
    7.  
      Troubleshooting with traceroute
    8.  
      Using the traceroute command
    9.  
      Collecting the metasave image of a file system
    10.  
      Replacing an Ethernet interface card (online mode)
    11.  
      Replacing an Access Appliance node
    12. Speeding up episodic replication
      1.  
        About synchronizing an episodic replication job
      2.  
        Synchronizing an episodic replication job
    13.  
      Uninstalling a patch release or software upgrade
  5. Troubleshooting the Access Appliance cloud as a tier feature
    1.  
      Troubleshooting tips for cloud tiering
    2.  
      Issues when reading or writing data from the cloud tier
    3.  
      Log locations for checking for cloud tiering errors
  6. Troubleshooting Access Appliance installation and configuration issues
    1.  
      How to find the management console IP
    2.  
      Viewing the installation logs
    3.  
      Installation fails and does not complete
  7. Troubleshooting Access Appliance CIFS issues
    1.  
      User access is denied on a CTDB directory share
  8. Troubleshooting Access Appliance GUI startup issues
    1.  
      Resolving GUI startup issues
  9. Troubleshooting Veritas Data Deduplication issues
    1.  
      Log locations for the Veritas Data Deduplication server
  10.  
    Index

About event logs

In addition to the system log, each Access Appliance feature has an associated event log. When a problem occurs, one of the quickest ways to learn more about what occurred is to examine these log files. Event logs for Access Appliance features are stored in the /opt/VRTSnas/log directory.

Note:

You should not delete or alter log files while troubleshooting, as it may hamper further investigation by Veritas Technical Support.

To view the event logs:

  1. Use SSH to log in to the node using admin privileges.
  2. Type support elevate and when prompted enter the password for the maintenance account.
  3. Navigate to the /opt/VRTSnas/log directory.

    Event logs for Access Appliance features are stored in this directory.

    For example, the cifs.log contains CIFS event logs.