Environment
Novell Cluster Services version 1.8
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
Situation
The cluster event log is not
updating properly. We tried ConsoleOne and NRM and the result is
the same. Downing the cluster and rebooting the nodes did not
help. Nor did recreating the SBD cluster partition.
Resolution
The cluster event log is actually
stored on the SBD partition starting at sector 65. It uses the free
space on the partition (space that isn't used for cluster split
brain monitoring). We store the log as a list with a head and tail
pointer. We found the the load order in the LDNCS.NCF
file was incorrect which was causing the log to not get initialized
properly. We corrected the load order problem and the log
started working as it should.