Servers not accessible via ISeries Command

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Hi,

since this morning I’ve got little trouble with my Dominoserver at the ISeries (Domino 6 on OS/400 V5R2).

No command will work with a server specified, for example: SBMDOMCMD CMD(‘sh ta’) SERVER(myserver) will result in " Domino command not submitted. Reason code 1.", which means that there is an error in verifying the server.

Also the serverlist will leave blank on “wrkdomsvr”.

The File /QIBM/USERDATA/LOTUS/LOTUS_SERVERS is, as far as I can see O.K. (Server=… for each Dominopartition), but I haven’t take a look in this file until I’ve searched this forum today.

Does anybody here can help?

Kind regards

Carsten

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Subject: Servers not accessible via ISeries Command

Seems like the LOTUS_SERVERS file got corrupted or can not be accessed. Something to try:

  • Just in case, ensure that the owner and authorities of the LOTUS_SERVERS file (and its parent directory) are correct (dspaut command):

Object . . . . . . . . . . . . : /QIBM/USERDATA/LOTUS/LOTUS_SERVERS

Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . : QNOTES

Primary group . . . . . . . . : *NONE

Authorization list . . . . . . : *NONE

           Data     --Object Authorities--

User Authority Exist Mgt Alter Ref

*PUBLIC *RX

QNOTES *RWX X X X X

  • Unfortunately, there is not an automatic process to regenerate the LOTUS_SERVER file, so it has to be manually reviewed. These are the lines that must exist for each Domino server:

SERVER=MYSERVER

TYPE=DOMINO

DIRECTORY=/domino/servers/myserver

SBSD=DOMINO03

PARTITION=3

LIBRARY=QNOTES

EXEPATH=/QIBM/PRODDATA/LOTUS/NOTES

CRTREL=6.0.0

CURREL=6.0.1

INFO=AUTOSTART=*NO;

Before to modify anything, make a copy of the current LOTUS_SERVERS file in your system (even if it’s corrupted it’s worth to have a backup before start playing).

You could try adding just one Domino server information at a time. Interesting lines are SERVER, DIRECTORY, SBDS and PARTITION since they may vary depending of the values specified when configuring the Domino server. The rest of the lines should be as shown above. If you have a good naming scheme in the system and can restablish the relationships between such values then simply verify/modify as appropiate. If not, you will need to perform an investigative job, here some inquires:

  • Are there any joblogs/spooled files from previous operations on the Domino servers where the Domino server-subsystem appear(e.g. STRDOMSVR)?

  • Do the SBSD objects names in the QUSRNOTES library tell you something? (the partition number normally corresponds to the last digits in the SBSD name)

  • Is there a common “base” IFS directory from where all your Domino servers data directories reside?

  • Another approach to try (in the case that we are not sure if the file contains weird characters inside) would be deleting the current LOTUS_SERVERS file, run a CFGDOMSVR (to get the file recreated) and manually add each of the previous existing servers one by one to the created file (copying/pasting from the existing lines).

Good luck,

Marcos.

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Subject: RE: Servers not accessible via ISeries Command

Hello Marcos,

thanks for your reply. I’ve checked the Lotus_Servers File regarding the necessary entries. All required lines are there.

So I will try to make a new one with cfgdomsvr. Because the Domino Servers on the machine are up and running fine so far, I will try to do this at the weekend.

Hope that everything will be O.K. then.

Kind regards

Carsten

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Subject: RE: Servers not accessible via ISeries Command

Hello Marcos,

I’ve found out, that this was an OS/400 Problem with the IFS. After fixing it with the rclstg-Command, (nearly) everything is working well now. I’m afraid I haven’t looked at the OS-Log quite well :frowning:

So let me thank you once again for your help…

Best regards

Carstem