Isilon: How to determine why a node is in an attention state

Summary: When viewing the Status area of the Cluster Status page in the OneFS web administration interface, one or more nodes might be in an attention state. Nodes in attention state are indicated with a yellow dot in the Status column. It might not always be evident why the nodes are in this state. Viewing the Node Status page by clicking the node number in the ID column does not provide any additional information. Any node that is in an attention state has experienced an event that has not ended. This article explains how to use the OneFS web administration interface or the command line in OneFS to verify a node's attention status. ...

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Instructions

Procedure

From the OneFS web administration interface:

Check the Events > Summary page to verify any active events for a specific node:

  1. Log in to the OneFS web administration interface and do one of the following:
    • In OneFS 7.0 and later, click Dashboard > Events > Summary tab. 
    • In OneFS 6.5 and earlier, click Status > Events > Summary.
  2. In the New Events section, click the Scope heading twice to sort the events so that individual nodes are listed first.
  3. Click View Details in the Actions column for any event that does not have an end time to view additional information about the event.

From the command line:

Filter events from the isi events command by logical node number (LNN):

  1. Open an SSH connection on any node in the cluster and log in using the "root" account.
  2. Run the following command from the command line, where < LNN> is the node to list events for:
      
    isi events list --wide --nodes=<LNN>

In the following example, node 2 as three active events:

isi events list --wide --nodes=2

ID    STARTED           ENDED SEV LNN MESSAGE
2.303 09/19/12 09:15:31 --    C   2   One or more drives (bay(s) 30, 31 / type(s) HDD, HDD) are ready to be replaced.
2.304 09/19/12 09:16:11 --    W   2 The /var/crash partition is near capacity (100.0% used)
2.305 09/19/12 09:16:51 --    C   2 Chassis Fan3 (ISI F3) out of spec.

Review isi  events man page for additional filtering options.

Affected Products

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Article Properties
Article Number: 000020275
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 30 Jun 2025
Version:  4
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