How to find out the info regarding Solaris, server hang or shutdown.

rajaniyer123 · 02-15-2008, 08:57 PM

Hi

As I am handling the Solaris 9 Server remotely.

As in last week the server has stopped to respond suddenly, we have tried to ping, ssh which was not working. As ultimately we have asked the Data Centre Team to hard reboot the same, to resolve the issue.

In the same ref I would like to know how we come to know the reason, what caused to reboot the same, i.e . any log file, etc..

I have check /var/adm/messages, but not found any detail for the same.

Thanks
Rajan

custangro · 02-15-2008, 11:53 PM

Try

/var/adm/messages*

or

sar

rajaniyer123 · 02-16-2008, 01:34 AM

As I have checked /var/adm/messages but not found anything , also while executing the command sar it gives error

sar: can't open /var/adm/sa/sa15
No such file or directory

Please suggest.

Thanks
Rajan

jlliagre · 02-16-2008, 01:59 AM

What kind of server is it ?
Was there a crash dump generated in /var/crash/<hostname>/ ? (I doubt because you say nothing appears in the messages file).

rajaniyer123 · 02-16-2008, 03:35 AM

Hi

The server is Sun Serverblade1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 650MHz). Also crashdump is disabled

Thanks
Rajan

jlliagre · 02-16-2008, 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rajaniyer123

Also crashdump is disabled

Then there is no hope for you to get a trace if the hang was due to a kernel panic.