Obituaries not progressing (logged in this time)

[Toi]

Hi,

I have 3 NW51SP3 Servers running NDS Ver 8.77.

I thought they were running perfectly the last weeks, but after performing a Health Check today, I found out that there are a lot of Obituaries (Deletes and Moves) that are not progressing. I have done everything support.novell.com and I know (-xk3 and Backlinker; changing the Master; Flatcleaner etc.) Nothing happens. The Servers are communicating perefctly (the Obituaries are replicated) and All processed=YES. 8.77 should be the latest NDS-Version.
HELP!!!!

Torsten Schumacher
CNI, CDE, CNE
Germany

 

[TheLad]

Can you see the obits if you use DSBROWSE on the Master server? If so, can you remove them?

 

[Toi]

Yes, I see them but if I want to delete them I get a 601 error

Strange thing happened over night. On one Server some Obits vanished. I declared him Master and made him resend all Objects - with no result. The Replicas are still looking different in DSBROWSE?
Thx
Torsten

 

[TheLad]

Toi - check out Novell TID 10064117 but be very careful. The "DSREPAIR -XK3" and the "DSREPAIR -OT" do work as I have used them before but it must be considered as a last resort. Get your backups ready and let us know how you get on.

 

[Toi]

Thanks for the Warning, but I crossed this border already.
Did the -xk3 +blink *b - Nothing
Used -OT - Nothing

Only thing that happened (ohoh) is that the MOVED Obits are still there but the INHIBIT_MOVES are gone...
Found A Field Test Beta of DS877g - any experience with this one?
Torsten

 

[yvfwc]

Toi - If you have the ability you might want to call the DS folks at Novell Support. They repaired, in short order, what started out as a minor problem but was progressivly getting worse. As far as support results go, it was the best call I ever made. Plus I got some pointers about changes that would be helpful to NDS specific to my WAN. Unless you are a NDS guru, which most of us aren't, they live & breath this stuff.

Cheers,

Mark ;-)