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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 9, 2022

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Session recovery via query

CSM is currently designed to stop monitoring underlying replication in an event where certain types of communication failures occur with a subsystem (say after panic/warmstart). It's designed this way to not inadvertently monitor relationships that weren't intentional. Thus, this leaves a Session in a state of failure when these communication errors occur. The recovery routine is quite simple, issue a START or STARTGC command to resume monitoring of the replication; however, this poses certain operational risks in the environment as we perform region switch's with some regularity which changes the expected state of a relationship (i.e. it could be PPRC synchronous or PPRC-XD depending on which region we are operating in). It would be helpful to have a new function that would give us the ability to 'recover status' as our first step in a recovery routine, rather than relying on environmental knowledge. 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 21, 2022

    I believe the issue is that CSM loses communication with the Storage side and CSM marks the GM session as severe (copysets go Defiened in CSM only), however the GM session on the Storage side is still working and in Normal state. When communication is restored between CSM and the Storage hardware, the GM session still remains severe, even thou it is running correctly on the Storage.

    Since CSM marked the session severe, to would be a good idea to have an option in CSM to "resync" the GM session to match the correct state reported on the Storage hardware, prior to the loss of communication.

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 13, 2022
    The issue I think you're talking about is when the hardware query from CSM results in CSM marking the pair as Defined. In this state the only thing that will mark the pair as active again is a start command. The hw however should never return Defined for the pair if the pair is actually active. So that issue really needs to be addressed by the hardware side.

    With that said, we do have a discover command now for FC relationships. We could consider doing the same for remote copy relationships now as well.

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