Is this a bug in SYMCLI 6.4/6.5? symaudit output

Hostnames are "safe" .. as long as your DNS does not resolve them from outside .. And I hope your DNS does not resolve internal names from outside

The sid is no more visible

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It's not critical, so I'll wait.

P.S. the sid is still visible in my first post (3rd line).
Is putting hostnames in the post OK? (also appears).

Unfortunatly I'm unable to reproduce your issues 'till friday... If you want, open a SR as soon as possible. Or if you prefer, wait till friday

Message was edited by:
Stefano Del Corno

Hey Stefano,
did you have the chance to check this for me?
Thanks.

I've installed my very first 6.5 solution enabler .. But I was unable to run tests .. I had some strange output even with 6.4 .. However I think I need some more tests .. And since I can use VPN, I think I'll run some more tests soon

Cool
Let me know what you find

OK .. I did my tests ...

I've got consistent results between all tested S.E. versions ..

I tested 6.5.0, 6.4.0, 6.3.1 .. And all three versions gave the same (and correct) results.

I used either symdev 1087 and 108E (that are the meta head and a meta member) .. And symaudit -start_date xxx -symdev www always picked up the same rows from all three different hosts. Selected rows were all related to the supplied device (it was an RDF activity but I suspect it doesn't mind).

As per my findings it looks good .. Maybe the issue is with the output. When symaudit formats the ranges in the output, they are all overlapped. I suspect that the bug may be in the output, not in the events retrived from the storage.

I'll also be able to post output from commands before friday ..

Can you do a specific test for me?

For example, if you used the 1087 device, try creating a clone session between any device in range of 0000:1086 as a source dev and clone it to any device in range of 1088:FFFF ( ). take a device like 555 and clone it to 108e you've mentioned before. Now run symaudit list -symdev 1087 -sid XXX and see if the clone event pops. If it's the same behavior as in my box it will happen to you too.

Ok? Thanks.

Since 1087 is a metahead but it also a R2 device I suspect that I'll use it as my source .. I'll try to find another 8way meta where to clone R2 data ...

Tests are at their very beginning ..

star2_bc/root> cat pairfile.clone
1087 108F

star2_bc/root> symclone -sid xxx -file pairfile.clone -nop -precopy create

'Create' operation execution is in progress for the device list in
device file 'pairfile.clone'. Please wait...

'Create' operation successfully executed for the device list
in device file 'pairfile.clone'.

wait some time .. 'till clones can be activated ..

star2_bc/root> symclone -sid xxx -file pairfile.clone activate

Execute 'Activate' operation for the 1 specified device(s)
in device file 'pairfile.clone' (y/) ? y

'Activate' operation execution is in progress for the device list in
device file 'pairfile.clone'. Please wait...

'Activate' operation successfully executed for the device list
in device file 'pairfile.clone'.


Ok .. now we have some symaudit entries .. hopefully
Let's verify if commands are working fine ....

ac0_bc/root> symaudit -sid xxx list -start_date 04/08/08 -symdev 108f:108f

A U D I T L O G D A T A

Symmetrix ID : 000287700xxx

Record Function Action
Number Date Time Application Host Class Code
------ -------- -------- ---------------- ------------ -------- ---------

57712 04/10/08 15:17:01 SYMRDF star2_bc RDF Split
57717 04/10/08 15:21:58 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Create
57721 04/10/08 15:34:03 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Activate

ac0_bc/root> symaudit -sid xxx list -start_date 04/08/08 -symdev 1087:1087

A U D I T L O G D A T A

Symmetrix ID : 000287700xxx

Record Function Action
Number Date Time Application Host Class Code
------ -------- -------- ---------------- ------------ -------- ---------

57717 04/10/08 15:21:57 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Create
57721 04/10/08 15:34:02 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Activate

ac0_bc/root> symcli

Symmetrix Command Line Interface (SYMCLI) Version V6.5.0.0 (Edit Level: 872)
built with SYMAPI Version V6.5.0.0 (Edit Level: 872)


Any further test ??

Message was edited by:
Stefano Del Corno

Thanks but that's not what I was looking for.
I actually wanted to make a symaudit test that should not make any results.

For example: You made a clone between 1087 and 108f. (hopefully they are not meta head devices, but a single hyper device.)
Now I wish you to find a device that's between 1087 and 108f (like 108e...) that was NOT a part of the clone! Let me know what symaudit output you get on that dev.
Sorry for making you make all those tests
Thanks,
Maxim.

Forgive me .. I missed the real aim of your tests ... I'll update the thread as soon as I can run some more tests ..

Latest tests... I think there is definitly something that's broken in 6.4. and 6.5...

I think I'll file a bug against SE.

Using S.E: 6.4 I cloned a small device to another small device. There are other devices in between (and no meta at all)

00A3 Not Visible ???:? 15A:CE RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A4 Not Visible ???:? 16A:CB RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A5 Not Visible ???:? 02A:CB RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A6 Not Visible ???:? 15A:DD RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A7 Not Visible ???:? 01C:C10 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488

Here is the pairfile I used ...

00A3 00A7


Cloning took a few seconds (very small devices) so I've been able to create, activate and recreate in a snap

Here are the results...

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star2_bc/root> symcli


Symmetrix Command Line Interface (SYMCLI) Version V6.4.1.0 (Edit Level: 827)
built with SYMAPI Version V6.4.1.0 (Edit Level: 827)

star2_bc/root> cat pairfile
00A3 00A7

star2_bc/root> symclone -sid 142 -file pairfile -nop -precopy create

'Create' operation execution is in progress for the device list in
device file 'pairfile'. Please wait...

'Create' operation successfully executed for the device list
in device file 'pairfile'.

star2_bc/root> symclone -sid 142 -file pairfile query


Device File Name : pairfile
Device's Symmetrix ID : 000287700142


Source Device Target Device State Copy--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ---- Protected Modified Modified
Logical Sym Tracks Tracks Logical Sym Tracks CGDP SRC <=> TGT (%)
--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ----N/A 00A3 0 0 N/A 00A7 0 X..X PreCopy 100

Total -------- -------- --------
Track(s) 0 0 0
MB(s) 0.0 0.0 0.0


Legend:

(C): X = The background copy setting is active for this pair.
. = The background copy setting is not active for this pair.
(G): X = The Target device is associated with this group.
. = The Target device is not associated with this group.
(D): X = The Clone session is a differential copy session.
. = The Clone session is not a differential copy session.
(P): X = The pre-copy operation has completed one cycle
. = The pre-copy operation has not completed one cycle


star2_bc/root> symclone -sid 142 -file pairfile activate

Execute 'Activate' operation for the 1 specified device(s)
in device file 'pairfile' (y/ ) ? y

'Activate' operation execution is in progress for the device list in
device file 'pairfile'. Please wait...

'Activate' operation successfully executed for the device list
in device file 'pairfile'.

star2_bc/root> symclone -sid 142 -file pairfile query


Device File Name : pairfile
Device's Symmetrix ID : 000287700142


Source Device Target Device State Copy--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ---- Protected Modified Modified
Logical Sym Tracks Tracks Logical Sym Tracks CGDP SRC <=> TGT (%)
--------------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------ ----N/A 00A3 0 0 N/A 00A7 0 X... Copied 100

Total -------- -------- --------
Track(s) 0 0 0
MB(s) 0.0 0.0 0.0


Legend:

(C): X = The background copy setting is active for this pair.
. = The background copy setting is not active for this pair.
(G): X = The Target device is associated with this group.
. = The Target device is not associated with this group.
(D): X = The Clone session is a differential copy session.
. = The Clone session is not a differential copy session.
(P): X = The pre-copy operation has completed one cycle
. = The pre-copy operation has not completed one cycle


star2_bc/root> symclone -sid 142 -file pairfile terminate

Execute 'Terminate' operation for the 1 specified device(s)
in device file 'pairfile' (y/ ) ? y

'Terminate' operation execution is in progress for the device list in
device file 'pairfile'. Please wait...

'Terminate' operation successfully executed for the device list
in device file 'pairfile'.

star2_bc/root> cat devices
00A3 Not Visible ???:? 15A:CE RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A4 Not Visible ???:? 16A:CB RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A5 Not Visible ???:? 02A:CB RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A6 Not Visible ???:? 15A:DD RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488
00A7 Not Visible ???:? 01C:C10 RAID-5 N/Grp'd RW 488

star2_bc/root> symaudit -sid 142 list -start_date 04/08/08 -symdev 0A5:0A5

A U D I T L O G D A T A

Symmetrix ID : 000287700142

Record Function Action
Number Date Time Application Host Class Code
------ -------- -------- ---------------- ------------ -------- ---------

57757 04/24/08 08:57:06 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Create
57761 04/24/08 08:57:46 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Activate
57765 04/24/08 08:58:49 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Terminat

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ac0_bc/root> symcli


Symmetrix Command Line Interface (SYMCLI) Version V6.5.0.0 (Edit Level: 872)
built with SYMAPI Version V6.5.0.0 (Edit Level: 872)

ac0_bc/root> symaudit -sid 142 list -start_date 04/08/08 -symdev 0A5:0A5

A U D I T L O G D A T A

Symmetrix ID : 000287700142

Record Function Action
Number Date Time Application Host Class Code
------ -------- -------- ---------------- ------------ -------- ---------

57757 04/24/08 09:58:52 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Create
57761 04/24/08 09:59:32 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Activate
57765 04/24/08 10:00:35 SYMCLONE star2_bc Clone Terminat

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