Updated: 11 December 1998

DECamds User's Guide

DECamds displays them in the Event Log window. Node is replaced by the name of the node to which the event is related. Process is replaced by the name of the process to which the event is related.

• LOASTQ, node process has used most of its ASTLM process quota
• LOBIOQ, node process has used most of its BIOLM process quota
• LOBYTQ, node process has used most of its BYTLM job quota
• LODIOQ, node process has used most of its DIOLM process quota
• LOENQU, node process has used most of its ENQLM job quota
• LOFILQ, node process has used most of its FILLM job quota
• LOPGFQ, node process has used most of its PGFLQUOTA job quota
• LOPRCQ, node process has used most of its PRCLM process quota
• LOTQEQ, node process has used most of its TQELM job quota
• LOWEXT, node process working set extent is too small
• LOWSQU, node process working set quota is too small
• PRBIOR, node process buffered I/O rate is high
• PRBIOW, node process waiting for buffered I/O
• PRCCOM, node process waiting in COM or COMO
• PRCCUR, node process has high CPU rate
• PRCMUT, node process waiting for a mutex
• PRCPUL, node process has used most of its CPUTIME process quota
• PRCPWT, node process waiting in COLPG, PFW, or FPG
• PRCQUO, node process waiting for a quota
• PRCRWA, node process waiting in RWAST
• PRCRWC, node process waiting in RWCAP
• PRCRWM, node process waiting in RWMBX
• PRCRWP, node process waiting in RWPAG, PWNPG, RWMPE, or RWMPB
• PRCRWS, node process waiting in RWSCS, RWCLU, or RWCSV
• PRCUNK, node process waiting for a system resource
• PRDIOR, node process direct I/O rate is high
• PRDIOW, node process waiting for direct I/O
• PRLCKW, node process waiting for a lock
• PRPGFL, node process high page fault rate
• PRPIOR, node process paging I/O rate is high

3.11 Lock Contention Summary Window

Figure 3-12 Lock Contention Summary Window

Locks are written to AMDS$LOCK_LOG.LOG; see Section B.3 for more information. To interpret the information displayed in the Lock Contention Summary window, you should have an understanding of OpenVMS lock management services. For more information, see the OpenVMS System Services Reference Manual.

You can open a Lock Contention Summary window from the Event Log or System Overview windows, as follows:

• In the Event Log window, click MB3 on any lock contention-related event and choose Display from the menu.
• In the System Overview window:
  1. Click MB3 on any node or group line, and choose Display from the menu.
  2. Choose Lock Contention Summary from the submenu.

Table 3-12 describes the Lock Contention Summary window data fields.

Table 3-12 Lock Contention Summary Window Data Fields

Field	Displays
Resource Name	The resource name associated with the $ENQ system service call.
Master Node	The node on which the resource is mastered.
Parent Resource	The name of the parent resource. If no name is displayed, the resource listed is the parent resource.
Duration	The amount of time elapsed since DECamds first detected the contention situation.
Status	The status of the lock. See the $ENQ(W) description in the OpenVMS System Services Reference Manual.

You can open a Single Lock Summary window from the Lock Contention Summary window. See Section 3.12 for more information.

Figure 3-13 shows how to determine which filters can or cannot be displayed. To filter specific locks from the display, choose Filter Data... from the Customize menu on the Lock Contention Summary window. A filter dialog box appears with a list of locks currently being filtered from the display.

To add a filter, use either of the following methods:

• Type the name of a filter in the Input Lock Name to Filter field and click on the Add button. You can use the asterisk (*) wildcard character to specify a range of filters. For example, $DSA*$WAITER will filter all locks beginning with $DSA and ending with $WAITER and anything in between.
• Click on a lock in the Lock Contention Summary window. The name of the lock will appear in the Input Lock Name to Filter field (as shown in Figure 3-13). You must click on the Add button to add the filter.

Figure 3-13 Filtering Lock Events

You can remove a lock from the filter list by selecting a lock and clicking on the Remove button. Any lock contentions affected by the removed filter will be displayed.

DECamds detects the following lock contention-related events and displays them in the Event Log window. Italicized words are replaced with actual values.

• LCKCNT, node possible contention for resource resource
• LRGHSH, node lock hash table too large n entries
• RESDNS, node resource hash table dense percentage full n resources, hash table size n
• RESPRS, node resource hash table sparse, only percentage full n resources, table size n

3.12 Single Lock Summary Window

Figure 3-14 Single Lock Summary Window

In a Single Lock Summary window, if DECamds cannot determine the node name for the group, it uses the cluster system ID (CSID) value, which the OpenVMS Cluster software uses to uniquely identify cluster members.

To open a Single Lock Summary window, do one of the following:

• In the Lock Contention Summary window, double-click on any field. You can also click MB3 on any field, and choose Display Lock from the menu.
• In the View menu of the Lock Contention Summary window, choose Display Lock.
• In the Event Log window, click MB3 on any lock blocking-related or lock waiting-related event, and choose Display from the menu.

Table 3-13 describes the Single Lock Summary window data fields.

Table 3-13 Single Lock Summary Window Data Fields

Field	Displays
Granted Lock
Node	The node name on which the lock is granted.
LKID	The lock ID value (which is useful with SDA).
Process Name	The name of the process owning the blocking lock.
Lock Type	One of the following: Local Copy, Process Copy, or Master Copy.
Resource Name	The name of the resource.
Parent Resource	The name of the parent resource (if any).
Granted, Conversion, and Waiting Queue
Node	The node on which the lock block resides.
Process Name	The process name of the process owning the lock.
LKID	The lock ID value (which is useful with SDA).
GR Mode	One of the following modes at which the lock is granted: EX, CW, CR, PW, PR, NL.
RQ Mode	One of the following modes at which the lock is requested: EX, CW, CR, PW, PR, NL.
Duration	The length of time the lock has been in the current queue (since the console application found the lock).
Flags	The flags specified with the $ENQ(W) request.

You can open a window about a specific process in the Single Lock Summary window by double-clicking on the process name.

DECamds detects the following single lock-related events and displays them in the Event Log window. Node is replaced by the name of the node to which the event is related. Process is replaced by the name of the process to which the event is related.

• LCKBLK, node process blocking resource resource
• LCKWAT, node process waiting for resource resource granted to process on node node

The Cluster Transition/Overview Summary window shown in Figure 3-15 displays information about each node in an OpenVMS Cluster. This window is very similar to the System Overview window; however, the Cluster Transition window lists only one cluster for each set of nodes in a cluster, while the System Overview window lists all the nodes and the user-defined groups the nodes are in.

The window displays summary information as well as information about individual nodes: System Communication Services (SCS) name, SCS ID, Cluster System ID, Votes, Lock Directory Weight value, cluster status, and last transition time.

The data items shown in the window correspond to data that the Show Cluster utility displays for the SYSTEM and MEMBERS classes. A status field display of "unknown" usually indicates that DECamds is not communicating with the node.

Figure 3-15 Cluster Transition/Overview Summary Window

To open the Cluster Transition/Overview Summary window, do either of the following:

• In the System Overview window, click MB3 on a node line. Choose Display from the menu displayed and Cluster Transition Summary from the submenu. The system displays the Cluster Transition/Overview Summary window.
• In the Event Log window, Click MB3 on a cluster-related event. Choose Display from the menu displayed and Cluster Transition Summary from the list displayed.

Note: The Cluster Transition Summary menu option is not available for nodes that are not in the cluster; it is not available from lines that display groups.

3.13.1 Data Displayed

The Cluster Transition/Overview window has two panel displays:

• The Summary (top) panel displays cluster summary information.
• The Cluster Members (bottom) panel lists each node in the cluster.

Table 3-14 describes the Summary panel data fields.

Table 3-14 Data Items in the Summary Panel of the Cluster Transition/Overview Summary Window

Data Item	Description
Formed	Date and time the cluster was formed.
Last Trans	Date and time of the most recent cluster state transition.
Votes	Total number of quorum votes being contributed by all cluster members and quorum disk.
Expected Votes	Number of votes expected to be contributed by all members of the cluster as determined by the connection manager. This value is based on the maximum of the EXPECTED_VOTES system parameter and the maximized value of the VOTES system parameter.
Failover Step	Current failover step index; shows which step in the sequence of failover steps the failover is currently executing.
Members In	Number of members of the cluster DECamds has a connection to.
Members Out	Number of members of the cluster DECamds either has no connection to or has lost connection to.
Quorum	Number of votes required to keep cluster above quorum.
QD Votes	Number of votes given to Quorum Disk. A value of 65535 means there is no Quorum Disk.
Failover ID	Failover Instance Identification: unique ID of a failover sequence; indicates to system managers whether a failover has occurred since the last time they checked.

Table 3-15 describes the Cluster Members panel data fields.

Table 3-15 Data Items in the Cluster Members Panel of the Cluster Transition/Overview Summary Window

Data Item	Description
SCS Name	System Communication Services name for the node (system parameter SCSNODE)
SCS id	System Communication Services identification for the node (system parameter SCSYSTEMID)
CSID	Cluster System Identification
Votes	Number of votes the member contributes
Expect	Expected votes to be contributed as set by the EXPECTED_VOTES system parameter
Quorum	Recommended quorum value derived from the expected votes
Lck:DirWt	Lock Manager distributed directory weight as determined by the LCKDIRWT system parameter
Status	Current cluster member status: MEMBER, UNKNOWN, or BRK_NON (break nonmember)
Transition Time	Time cluster member had last transition

3.13.2 Notes About the Display

Following are notes about the display of data in the window:

• No highlighting conventions are used in the window; all data items are displayed in normal mode.
• You cannot filter out any data.
• The data items in the window are sorted on an "as-found" basis. You cannot change the sort criteria.
• When you click on an item, DECamds temporarily stops updating the window for 15 seconds or until you choose an item from a menu.
• DECamds signals the LOVOTE event when the difference between the cluster's quorum and votes values is less than the threshold for the event:

  LOVOTE, 'node' VOTES count is close to or below QUORUM

  
  The default threshold for LOVOTE is 1.

• You can change collection intervals.

The System Communications Architecture Summary (SCA Summary) window shown in Figure 3-16 displays information about a selected node's virtual circuits and connections to other nodes in a cluster. (The display represents the view one node has of other nodes in the cluster.) More than one type of virtual circuit indicates that more than one path to the remote node exists.

Figure 3-16 SCA Summary Window

Each line in the window shows either a summary of all system applications (SysApps) using the virtual circuit communication or the communication on the connection between a local and a remote SysApp. The data displayed in the window is similar to the information that the Show Cluster utility displays for the CIRCUITS, CONNECTIONS, and COUNTERS classes. Unlike Show Cluster, however, this display shows only SCA connections to other OpenVMS nodes; it does not show SCA connections to the Disk Storage Architecture (DSA) or to devices such as FDDI or DSSI disk controllers.

By clicking MB3 on a node name and choosing View SysApps from the pop-up menu, you can display the system applications that are using virtual circuits. This option expands the list below a virtual circuit to show all the system applications that contribute to that virtual circuit. (The SysApp lines are dimmed and right-justified.)

To hide the display of system applications, click MB3 and choose Hide SysApps from the pop-up menu.

To display a menu that allows you to toggle between Raw and Rate data, click MB3 on the data to the right of the State field. (For messages, the default is the display of rate data; raw data is the default for all other types of data.)

To open an SCA Summary window, follow these steps:

1. In the Cluster Transition/Overview Summary window, click MB3 on an SCS name.
   The system displays a pop-up menu.
2. Choose Display SCA Summary.
   The system displays the System Communication Architecture (SCA) Summary window.

Table 3-16 describes the SCA Summary window data fields.

Table 3-16 Data Items in the SCA Summary Window

Data Item	Description
NodeName	SCS name of the remotely connected node.
VC(Type)	The virtual circuit being used and its type.
State	The state of the virtual circuit connection.
Messages	Relatively small data packets sent and received between nodes for control information.
Block Transfer	Fields listing the count of the number of block data transfers and requests initiated.
KB Mapped	Field listing the number of kilobytes mapped for block data transfer. Note: This field is available in Raw data format only.
Block Data (KB)	Fields listing in kilobytes the data transferred via block data transfer.
Datagrams	Number of unacknowledged messages sent between virtual circuits.
Credit Wait	Number of times the connection had to wait for a send credit.
CDT Wait	Number of times the connection had to wait for a buffer descriptor.
Local SysApp	Name of the local system application using the virtual circuit.
Remote SysApp	Name of the remote system application being communicated to.

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