Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server (Linux based)
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2)
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2)
Situation
When running NSS on a OES2 SP1 Linux server, the administrator has a variety of tools available, to view and or manage the NSS Pools and volumes on a server
For example tools such as:
- nssmu
- nsscon
- iManager
- etc
However, you are also able to check for any active pools, using the ' nss /pools ' command from within a console terminal. This will list all available NSS pools and volumes running on the server.
The tool that is responsible for this specific output is the '/opt/novell/nss/sbin/nss.pl' file. We have found the tool currently has a limitation of displaying more than 12 NSS pools within a terminal.
You can easily verify this by setting up a number of NSS pools on your system, ranging from POOL_01 up to for example POOL_20, and when you would issue the ' nss /pools ' command, the output would look similar as below :
oes232-node111:~ # nss /pools
Pool Name State Attributes Logical Volumes
----------------- ----------- ----------------- -------------------
POOL_01 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_01
Multi use detect
POOL_02 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_02
Multi use detect
POOL_03 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_03
Multi use detect
POOL_04 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_04
Multi use detect
POOL_05 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_05
Multi use detect
POOL_06 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_06
Multi use detect
POOL_07 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_07
Multi use detect
POOL_08 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_08
Multi use detect
POOL_09 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_09
Multi use detect
POOL_10 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_10
Multi use detect
POOL_11 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_11
Multi use detect
POOL_12 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_12
Multi use detect
oes232-node111:~ #
Verifying the same within any other available tools such as NSSMU, NSSCON, etc, you will see that all NSS pools are listed, accounted for, and fully functional. This is merely a 'cosmetic' issue, as the perl script is just not capable of displaying them properly.
For example tools such as:
- nssmu
- nsscon
- iManager
- etc
However, you are also able to check for any active pools, using the ' nss /pools ' command from within a console terminal. This will list all available NSS pools and volumes running on the server.
The tool that is responsible for this specific output is the '/opt/novell/nss/sbin/nss.pl' file. We have found the tool currently has a limitation of displaying more than 12 NSS pools within a terminal.
You can easily verify this by setting up a number of NSS pools on your system, ranging from POOL_01 up to for example POOL_20, and when you would issue the ' nss /pools ' command, the output would look similar as below :
oes232-node111:~ # nss /pools
Pool Name State Attributes Logical Volumes
----------------- ----------- ----------------- -------------------
POOL_01 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_01
Multi use detect
POOL_02 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_02
Multi use detect
POOL_03 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_03
Multi use detect
POOL_04 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_04
Multi use detect
POOL_05 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_05
Multi use detect
POOL_06 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_06
Multi use detect
POOL_07 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_07
Multi use detect
POOL_08 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_08
Multi use detect
POOL_09 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_09
Multi use detect
POOL_10 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_10
Multi use detect
POOL_11 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_11
Multi use detect
POOL_12 ACTIVE Multiple Volumes VOL_12
Multi use detect
oes232-node111:~ #
Verifying the same within any other available tools such as NSSMU, NSSCON, etc, you will see that all NSS pools are listed, accounted for, and fully functional. This is merely a 'cosmetic' issue, as the perl script is just not capable of displaying them properly.
Resolution
The problem is resolved with an updated version of the nss.pl file,
which will be made available in a future update