You can monitor the startup status of
the appliance. Monitoring the startup status can help you determine
and troubleshoot issues.
Before you begin
- Initialize, start, or restart the appliance.
- You must have access to the xcadmin user
name and password.
About this task
You can use the startup user interface panel or the
start-progress command
to monitor the startup status of the appliance.
- Appliance startup user interface panel
- With the user interface panel, you can view a startup status,
including a percentage complete and status of individual servers and
processes. The status refreshes automatically every 15 seconds.
- start-progress command
- You run the start-progress command in the command-line
interface. The command returns the current snapshot of the startup
status. To get an updated version of the startup status, you must
run the command again.
Procedure
- Display the appliance startup status panel in the user
interface.
- Use the following URL to access the appliance startup
status panel:
https://<appliance_hostname>:9443/
The percentage of the startup progress displays.
- If the progress gets stuck at a certain percentage,
you can download the log files to troubleshoot the problem. Click Download
log files.
- Display the appliance startup status in the command-line
interface.
- Log in to the command-line interface. For
more information, see Using the command line interface to run operations on your appliance.
- Run the start-progress command. The status of the appliance startup sequence displays.
- To update the status, run the start-progress command
again.
Example
The following example is a successful startup sequence:
Volume 1 mounted
Volume 2 mounted
Grid administrative service started.
Catalog server started.
Grid configuration service started.
Container server 01 started.
Container server 02 started.
Container server 03 started.
Container server 04 started.
Container server 05 started.
Container server 06 started.
Container server 07 started.
Container server 08 started.
Administrative console started.
- Catalog servers run on the first three appliances in the collective.
You might not see the catalog server startup message if you have more
than three appliances.
- The number of container servers that start depend on the transport
type you are using. With IBM eXtremeIO (XIO), eight container servers
start by default. With Object Request Broker (ORB), 16 container servers
start by default. For more information about transport types, see Configuring IBM eXtremeIO (XIO).
- After the Administrative console started. status
displays, you can log in to the user interface.
What to do next
- The appliance startup panel also shows suspended state when you
run the request suspend and request force-suspend commands.