IJ38990: STARTING/STOPING AGENTS TAKES LONGER IF RUNINFO HAS NON-RUNNING ENTRIES

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.3.0 Fix Pack 7 Service Pack 12 (6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0012)

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Starting and stopping the first ITM agent/server takes an
  additional 25 seconds per non-running PID entry in RunInfo.
  
  Recreate steps:
  
  On a Linux system
  1. Install the OS agent from 6.3.0.7 or 6.3.0.7 SP10
  2. Install MQ monitoring agent.
  3. Configure the OS and MQ agents
  
  4. Start an instance of the MQagent for each Queue Managers
  defined.
  5. Setup kcirunas.cfg so that the MQ default instance is not
  started at reboot.
  6. Setup kcirunas.cfg so that each MQ instance boots as mqm.
  7. Run UpdateAutoRun.sh
  8. Kill -9 one or more MQ agent instances
  9. Attempt to start all MQ instances.
  10. ERROR: Notice that the first MQ agent isntance that attempts
  to start take longer (25 seconds for each MQ agent instance that
  was killed)
  

Local fix

• Run the cinfo -R command before starting or stopping ITM agents
  or servers.
  

Problem summary

• Starting/Stoping agents takes longer if RunInfo has non-running
  entries
  
  
  Starting and stopping the first ITM agent/server takes an
  additional 25 seconds per non-running PID entry in RunInfo.
  

Problem conclusion

• The code has been changed to fix the problem.
  
  
  The fix for this APAR is contained in the following maintenance
  packages:
  
     | service pack | 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0012
  

Temporary fix

• Run the cinfo -R command before starting or stopping ITM agents
  or servers.
  

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  OMEG DIST INSTA

• Fixed component ID

  5608A41CI

Applicable component levels