Mailbox command 17 failure status fff7” message, Process has an exclusive lock” message – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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Troubleshooting

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“mailbox command 17 failure status FFF7” Message

If one or more of your Microsoft Windows hosts are using an Emulex HBA driver, you may see the

following message in Windows Event Viewer:
“mailbox command 17 failure status FFF7”
This message can be safely ignored. The HBAAPI is being used to access data in the FLASH

memory of the adapter that does not exist and this is causing the event to be logged. This issue has

been seen with version 5.2.2 of the driver.

”Process Has an Exclusive Lock” Message

You will receive a message resembling the one shown below if a process has already locked the

EMC Symmetrix storage system and you attempt a process that requires a lock on the Symmetrix

storage system. The Symmetrix storage system can become locked for many reasons. For example,

the storage system becomes locked when it performs LUN mapping, LUN masking or Discovery

Data Collection/Get Details. The Symmetrix storage system may also remain locked after a

provisioning operation has failed.
“SYMAPI routine SymDevMaskSessionStart failed with error code 188: The operation failed

because another process has an exclusive lock on the local Symmetrix.”

Any host

NA

The Unmounted Volume field under Capacity Summary automatically

displays 0 MB if you discovered the host but not the storage system

connected to it. This may occur if you did not enter the IP address of

the storage system when performing discovery and/or your license

does not allow you to discover a particular storage system. See the

Supported Elements section in the “List of Features” to determine

which storage systems you can discover. The “List of Features” is

accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation
Center

in Storage Essentials).

IBM

Storage

Systems

Subsystem

Device Driver

(SDD) or

MPIO (Multi

Pathing IO)

If you discovery an IBM storage system without SDD, incorrect

stitching is displayed in System Manager for the storage system. You

are shown only one path if the storage system is using MPIO instead

of SDD.

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Known Device Issues (continued)

Device

Software

Description

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