FM (fault Mangement) Output Huge Errlog File. (Doc ID 2824034.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 01, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

ODM Issue Clarification
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=> customer has huge errlog files in FMA:

root# /var/fm/fmd# ls -lrth
total 427756899
drwx------ 2 root sys 2 Nov 12 2015 xprt
drwx------ 5 root sys 5 Aug 6 2016 ckpt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26M Jul 19 2020 errlog.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27M Jul 20 2020 errlog.9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 539M Jul 21 2020 errlog.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26M Jul 22 2020 errlog.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 779M Jul 23 2020 errlog.6
drwx------ 2 root sys 4 Aug 2 2020 rsrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36G Dec 12 2020 errlog.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34M Dec 13 2020 errlog.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32M Dec 14 2020 errlog.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36K Apr 16 09:18 fltlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39G Apr 20 03:09 errlog.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452M Apr 21 03:09 errlog.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 Jul 4 03:10 errlog+-
drwxr-xr-x 7 root sys 8 Oct 7 02:01 topo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280G Oct 7 12:15 errlog

=> They want to know how to rotate errlog before anything else.

Changes

No manual / user changes made

Cause

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