Viewing collector reports, Verifying storage mirroring server connectivity – HP Storage Mirroring Software User Manual

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Viewing collector reports

If you are not seeing data returned for the nodes you have created, run the Collector Errors Report.

This can be accessed by:

1.

Right-click on the node that isn't returning the data.

2.

Select

SMRC Reports.

3.

Select

Data Collection Errors.

Looking at the error messages can often determine the cause of the data not being displayed. Below

are some common examples and what they mean:

If the collector errors report does not indicate what the problem is, proceed to look at the log files.

For more information, see

Changing log levels

on page 7-1.

Verifying Storage Mirroring server connectivity

To test connectivity from a Storage Mirroring server to a Storage Mirroring server, use the following

command-line tool:
dtrc_modtest –e –m doubletake –f

MODULE

–t

HOSTNAME

–T 3 –

USERNAME

PASSWORD

Common Collector Errors

Reason

Error querying server 'servername': 9 : Double Take

server is incompatible or the version could not be

determined

The SMRC Collector is unable to communicate

with Storage Mirroring on the server. Ensure

that Storage Mirroring is configured on the

server and that it is a supported version by

Storage Mirroring.

RPC Server is unavailable attempting to connect to

\\servername\root\cimv2 via WMI

Check connectivity and configuration with

wbemtest. Check firewall settings allow

connection to server from SMRC collector.

WMI query on servername failed

Check connectivity and configuration with

wbemtest. Also happens intermittently when

WMI is being used by another process.
Make sure that DCOM is turned on.

Cannot monitor servers of type <product type

name> (<product type code>)

The SMRC Collector checks the product type of

the Storage Mirroring server being monitored.

Storage Mirroring does not allow you to gather

data from the following Storage Mirroring

products.

z

Storage Mirroring for Windows - Replication

SSE

z

Storage Mirroring for Windows - Replication

SE

z

Storage Mirroring for Windows - Replication

ASE

z

Storage Mirroring for Windows - SSE

z

Storage Mirroring for Small Business

Server

z

Storage Mirroring ShadowCaster - SBS

z

Storage Mirroring ShadowCaster -

Standard

z

Storage Mirroring ShadowCaster -

Enterprise

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