200 Series Alarm Messages

Alarm Severities

One or more of the following severity levels is associated with each alarm.

Critical

Indicates that a platform service affecting condition has occurred and immediate corrective action is required. (A mandatory platform service has become totally out of service and its capability must be restored.)

Major

Indicates that a platform service affecting condition has developed and urgent corrective action is required. (A mandatory platform service has developed a severe degradation and its full capability must be restored.)

- or -

An optional platform service has become totally out of service and its capability should be restored.

Minor

Indicates that a platform non-service affecting fault condition has developed and corrective action should be taken in order to prevent a more serious fault. (The fault condition is not currently impacting / degrading the capability of the platform service.)

Warning

Indicates the detection of a potential or impending service affecting fault. Action should be taken to further diagnose and correct the problem in order to prevent it from becoming a more serious service affecting fault.

Alarm ID: 200.001

<hostname> was administratively locked to take it out-of-service.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

warning

Proposed Repair Action

Administratively unlock Host to bring it back in-service.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 200.004

<hostname> experienced a service-affecting failure.

Host is being auto recovered by Reboot.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

critical

Proposed Repair Action

If auto-recovery is consistently unable to recover host to the unlocked-enabled state contact next level of support or lock and replace failing host.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 200.011

<hostname> experienced a configuration failure during initialization. Host is being re-configured by Reboot.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

critical

Proposed Repair Action

If auto-recovery is consistently unable to recover host to the unlocked-enabled state contact next level of support or lock and replace failing host.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 200.010

<hostname> access to board management module has failed.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

warning

Proposed Repair Action

Check Host’s board management configuration and connectivity.

Management Affecting Severity

none

Alarm ID: 200.013

<hostname> compute service of the only available controller is not proportional. Auto-recovery is disabled. Degrading host instead.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

major

Severity:

major

Proposed Repair Action

Enable second controller and Switch Activity (Swact) over to it as soon as possible. Then Lock and Unlock host to recover its local compute service.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 200.005

Degrade:

<hostname> is experiencing an intermittent ‘Management Network’ communication failure that have exceeded its lower alarming threshold.

Failure:

<hostname> is experiencing a persistent critical ‘Management Network’ communication failure.”

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

[‘critical’, ‘major’]

Proposed Repair Action

Check ‘Management Network’ connectivity and support for multicast messaging. If problem consistently occurs after that and Host is reset, then contact next level of support or lock and replace failing host.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 200.009

Degrade:

<hostname> is experiencing an intermittent ‘Cluster-host Network’ communication failures that have exceeded its lower alarming threshold.

Failure:

<hostname> is experiencing a persistent critical ‘Cluster-host Network’ communication failure.”

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

[‘critical’, ‘major’]

Proposed Repair Action

Check ‘Cluster-host Network’ connectivity and support for multicast messaging. If problem consistently occurs after that and Host is reset, then contact next level of support or lock and replace failing host.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 200.006

Main Process Monitor Daemon Failure (major):

<hostname> ‘Process Monitor’ (pmond) process is not running or functioning properly. The system is trying to recover this process.

Monitored Process Failure (critical/major/minor):

Critical: <hostname> critical ‘<processname>’ process has failed and could not be auto-recovered gracefully.

Auto-recovery progression by host reboot is required and in progress.

Major: <hostname> is degraded due to the failure of its ‘<processname>’ process. Auto recovery of this major process is in progress.

Minor: <hostname> ‘<processname>’ process has failed. Auto recovery of this minor process is in progress.

OR

<hostname> ‘<processname>’ process has failed. Manual recovery is required.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>.process=<processname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

major

Severity:

[‘critical’, ‘major’, ‘minor’]

Proposed Repair Action

If this alarm does not automatically clear after some time and continues to be asserted after Host is locked and unlocked then contact next level of support for root cause analysis and recovery.

If problem consistently occurs after Host is locked and unlocked then contact next level of support for root cause analysis and recovery.”

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 200.007

Host is degraded due to a ‘critical’ out-of-tolerance reading from the ‘<sensorname>’ sensor

Host is degraded due to a ‘major’ out-of-tolerance reading from the ‘<sensorname>’ sensor

Host is reporting a ‘minor’ out-of-tolerance reading from the ‘<sensorname>’ sensor

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>.sensor=<sensorname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

critical

Severity:

[‘critical’, ‘major’, ‘minor’]

Proposed Repair Action

If problem consistently occurs after Host is power cycled and or reset, contact next level of support or lock and replace failing host.

Management Affecting Severity

none

Alarm ID: 200.014

The Hardware Monitor was unable to load, configure and monitor one or more hardware sensors.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

minor

Proposed Repair Action

Check Board Management Controller provisioning. Try reprovisioning the BMC. If problem persists, try power cycling the host and then the entire server including the BMC power. If problem persists, then contact next level of support.

Management Affecting Severity

none

Alarm ID: 200.015

Unable to read one or more sensor groups from this host’s board management controller

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

major

Proposed Repair Action

Check board management connectivity and try rebooting the board management controller. If problem persists, contact next level of support or lock and replace failing host.

Management Affecting Severity

none

Alarm ID: 210.001

System Backup in progress.

Entity Instance

host=controller

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

minor

Proposed Repair Action

No action required.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 250.001

<hostname> Configuration is out-of-date.

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

major

Proposed Repair Action

Administratively lock and unlock <hostname> to update config.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 250.002

<hostname> Ceph cache tiering configuration is out-of-date.

Entity Instance

cluster=<dist-fs-uuid>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

major

Proposed Repair Action

Apply Ceph service parameter settings.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 250.003

Kubernetes certificates rotation failed on host[, reason = <reason_text>]

Entity Instance

host=<hostname>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

major

Proposed Repair Action

Lock and unlock the host to update services with new certificates (Manually renew kubernetes certificates first if renewal failed).

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 260.001

Deployment Manager resource not reconciled: <name>

Entity Instance

resource=<crd-resource>,name=<resource-name>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

major

Proposed Repair Action

Monitor and if condition persists, validate deployment configuration.

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 270.001

Host <host_name> compute services failure[, reason = <reason_text>]

Entity Instance

host=<host_name>.services=compute

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

critical

Proposed Repair Action

Wait for host services recovery to complete; if problem persists contact next level of support

Management Affecting Severity

warning

Alarm ID: 280.001

<subcloud> is offline

Entity Instance

subcloud=<subcloud>

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

critical

Proposed Repair Action

Wait for subcloud to become online; if problem persists contact next level of support

Management Affecting Severity

none

Alarm ID: 280.002

<subcloud> <resource> sync_status is out-of-sync

Entity Instance

[‘subcloud=<subcloud>.resource=<compute | network | platform | volumev2>’]

Degrade Affecting Severity:

none

Severity:

major

Proposed Repair Action

If problem persists contact next level of support

Management Affecting Severity

none