Warning! Assistant partition /var reaches 81%.

[LD22]

Good Morning,
I found this today, not sure where to start with it. Any help would be appreciated.
Full Warning:Warning! Assistant partition /var reaches 81%. SW activations are blocked. Assistant will be reinstalled when 95% is reached.

Details: Disk space needs to be increased through deleting unnecessary files e.g. old activated RLCs & HFs or Logs

This is a OS4K v8.1 Duplex

 

[sbcsu]

I'm sure others will have a different view but this is what I have done to resolve this.

Log on via PUTTY to the eth0 IP address using root
cd /
cd /var/log
dir
you will see a lot of bz2 files which are taking up space
to delete them
rm *.bz2
then you can verify that the partition is not full by inputting df -m

I have logged on to eth0 of each processor using root

and also to the assistant IP address using engr doing the same as above.

In V8.1 this is a common occourance

 

[LD22]

sbcsu thanks for your quick response. I did the for mentioned, however the Warning is still there on the Assistant front page. Possibily just slow to update ? I also had a problem with my OSCC v9.2, some of the RT reports were stuck, not updating but it seems that as soon as I cleared those .bz2 files that problem cleared right up. I'll let it sit overnight and see how it is in the morning.Thanks again for your help.

 

[sbcsu]

I normally 'do' the eth0 of the A processor and the B processor also putty to the assistant IP address and do the same.
If you do a ls or a dir command you will see other files like 'messages' - I delete those also

 

[LD22]

Hi sbcsu,

I went back into Linux, Assistiant IP, and did see the message files but what would be the command format to delete them. My Linux experiance is limited.
Are these files just log type files containing semi useless information ?

linux:/var/log # ls
ASconf.log messages-20191223 messages-20210512
ASdlsapi messages-20191228 messages-20210518
ASswa2 messages-20200103 messages-20210524
ConsoleKit messages-20200109 messages-20210529
NetworkManager messages-20200115 messages-20210604
YaST2 messages-20200121 messages-20210610
acpid messages-20200126 messages-20210616
apache2 messages-20200131 messages-20210622
audit messages-20200206 messages-20210628
backup.trace messages-20200212 messages-20210703
btmp messages-20200218 messages-20210709
faillog messages-20200224 messages-20210715
firewall messages-20200229 messages-20210721
ha_server.log messages-20200306 messages-20210727
ha_server.log.1.bz2 messages-20200312 messages-20210802
krb5 messages-20200317 messages-20210808
lastlog messages-20200322 messages-20210814
localmessages messages-20200327 messages-20210819
localmessages-20200502 messages-20200401 messages-20210825
localmessages-20210812 messages-20200407 messages-20210831
logs messages-20200412 messages-20210906
mail messages-20200418 messages-20210912
mail.err messages-20200424 messages-20210917
mail.info messages-20200430 messages-20210923
mail.warn messages-20200506 messages-20210928
makula.trc messages-20200511 messages-20211004
messages messages-20200517 messages-20211010
messages-20190125 messages-20200523 messages-20211016
messages-20190129 messages-20200529 messages-20211022
messages-20190204 messages-20200604 messages-20211026
messages-20190208 messages-20200609 messages-20211101
messages-20190214 messages-20200615 messages-20211106
messages-20190219 messages-20200621 messages-20211112
messages-20190225 messages-20200627 messages-20211118
messages-20190302 messages-20200703 messages-20211124
messages-20190307 messages-20200709 messages-20211130
messages-20190313 messages-20200714 messages-20211205
messages-20190319 messages-20200720 messages-20211211
messages-20190325 messages-20200726 messages-20211217
messages-20190330 messages-20200801 messages-20211223
messages-20190405 messages-20200806 messages-20211229
messages-20190410 messages-20200812 messages-20220104
messages-20190416 messages-20200817 messages-20220109
messages-20190422 messages-20200823 messages-20220115
messages-20190428 messages-20200829 messages-20220120
messages-20190503 messages-20200904 messages-20220126
messages-20190509 messages-20200909 messages-20220201
messages-20190515 messages-20200913 messages-20220207
messages-20190521 messages-20200919 messages-20220212
messages-20190527 messages-20200925 messages-20220216
messages-20190602 messages-20200929 messages-20220222
messages-20190607 messages-20201005 messages-20220227
messages-20190613 messages-20201009 messages-20220304
messages-20190618 messages-20201015 messages-20220309
messages-20190624 messages-20201021 messages-20220314
messages-20190630 messages-20201026 messages-20220320
messages-20190705 messages-20201101 messages-20220325
messages-20190710 messages-20201107 messages-20220330
messages-20190715 messages-20201112 messages-20220404
messages-20190720 messages-20201118 messages-20220409
messages-20190726 messages-20201124 messages-20220413
messages-20190801 messages-20201130 messages-20220418
messages-20190806 messages-20201206 messages-20220423
messages-20190812 messages-20201212 messages-20220427
messages-20190818 messages-20201217 messages-20220503
messages-20190823 messages-20201223 messages-20220508
messages-20190828 messages-20201229 messages-20220513
messages-20190903 messages-20210104 messages-20220518
messages-20190909 messages-20210110 messages-20220523
messages-20190914 messages-20210115 messages-20220528
messages-20190919 messages-20210121 messages-20220602
messages-20190925 messages-20210127 messages-20220607
messages-20190927 messages-20210202 messages-20220612
messages-20190929 messages-20210208 messages-20220618
messages-20191001 messages-20210214 messages-20220622
messages-20191006 messages-20210219 messages-20220628
messages-20191012 messages-20210225 ntp
messages-20191018 messages-20210303 os_postinstall.log
messages-20191024 messages-20210309 pbl.log
messages-20191029 messages-20210315 preinstall_assistant.log
messages-20191104 messages-20210321 sa
messages-20191109 messages-20210326 snmp_pipe
messages-20191115 messages-20210401 tomcat6
messages-20191121 messages-20210407 warn
messages-20191126 messages-20210413 warn-20211008
messages-20191202 messages-20210419 wtmp
messages-20191208 messages-20210424 zypp
messages-20191213 messages-20210430 zypper.log
messages-20191218 messages-20210506
linux:/var/log #

 

[Moriendi]

The error message that you had refers specifically to the Assistant, so cleaning up the host OS, i.e. the platform, for node A and node B will not have any impact on the Assistant problem.

You should not delete /var/log/messages, it's a live file and constantly written to.

The other messages files should have been archived but have not been, you would not have this problem if your software was current.

You can delete them with rm messages-2* (from /var/log/ directory) and that will leave the main messages file intact.

If Assistant reinstalls, it's no big deal, there is no telephony outage.

 

[LD22]

We are in the beginning stages of trying to get this rolled up to v10. It was initially installed with v2 in 2005 and I have never seen that error before. Thanks for your help Moriendi.