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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 21, 2022

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mmhealth node show should explicitly show the cluster status, too

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Currently mmhealth node show can report the node as healthy while there are problems elsewhere in the cluster, e.g. in the filesystem component:
# mmhealth node show

Node name: somenode.somedomain

Node status: HEALTHY

Status Change: 13 days ago

Component Status Status Change Reasons & Notices

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FILESYSMGR HEALTHY 27 days ago -

GPFS HEALTHY 13 days ago -

NETWORK HEALTHY 27 days ago -

FILESYSTEM DEGRADED 27 days ago ill_unbalanced_fs(fs1, fs2, fs3)

DISK HEALTHY 27 days ago -

GUI HEALTHY 27 days ago [gui_login_attempt_failed]

LOCALCACHE TIPS 27 days ago lroc_sensors_inactive, lroc_set_buffer_desc_tip

PERFMON HEALTHY 27 days ago -

THRESHOLD HEALTHY 27 days ago -

Using the machine-readable output you get a degraded state for the node which is quite confusing:

...
mmhealth:State:0:1:::somenode.somedomain:FILESYSTEM:somenode.somedomain:NODE:DEGRADED:2022-02-22 14%3A29%3A54.746091 CET:

...

So the "node show" does not only show node data but also cluster data. Therefore an additional line below "Node status:" called Cluster status:" would be helpful, reporting DEGRADED in this situation.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 13, 2022

    Thank you for submitting this Idea for Spectrum Scale. We will review this request and see if it is something we can implement in the near future.


    Sincerely,

    Spectrum Scale team

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