Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 Troubleshooting Guide - Solaris

Task logs

The tasks that are created on the system are logged for diagnostic purposes in the tasklog file in the /etc/vx/log/ directory. This file logs an entry for all task-related operations (creation, completion, pause, resume, and abort). The size of the task log is checked after an entry has been written, so the actual size may be slightly larger than the size specified. When the log reaches the maximum size, the current task log file, tasklog, is renamed as the next available historic log file. Historic task log files are named tasklog.1, tasklog.2, and so on up to tasklog.5. A maximum of five historic log files are tracked.

Each log file contains a header that records the host name, host ID, and the date and time that the log was created. The following are sample entries from a task log file:

# 159571211, 16905,  Thu Aug 21 02:54:18 2014
  184 - SNAPSYNC  Starting 00.00% 0/65536/0 SNAPSYNC full1-v1 vvrdg
# 455972214, 16929,  Thu Aug 21 02:54:24 2014
  184 - SNAPSYNC Finishing 96.88% 0/65536/63488 SNAPSYNC full1-v1 vvrdg

Each entry contains two lines. The first line contains the following:

The client ID is the same as the one recorded for the corresponding command and transactions in command log and transaction log respectively.

The second line contains task-related information in the following format:

<id> <parent_id> <type> <state> <progress status> <desc> <nodename> 
<additional_flags>
<id>                : task id
<parent_id>         : task id of parent task. If the task does not have 
parent then '-' is reported
<type>              : The Type of Task
<state>             : Starting/Pausing/Resuming/Aborting/Finishing
<progress status>   : % progress followed by the triplet 
(start_offset/end_offset/current_offset) or for parent task 
(total_child_tasks/finished_child_tasks/active_child_tasks).
<desc>              : Description of the task and objects involved.
<nodename>          : optional nodedname.
<additional_flags>  : optional flags such as auto-throttled, smartmove.