| Title: | VAX and Alpha VMS |
| Notice: | This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1 |
| Moderator: | VAXAXP::BERNARDO |
| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1997 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 703 |
| Total number of notes: | 3722 |
Help!
We just experienced something really strange:
If we did LAT connections to any one of 3 nodes in an OpenVMS 6.1
VAXcluster we would get the SYS$ANNOUNCE message, Username: prompt
and then it would take almost a minute before we got the Password:
prompt.
If we did Telnet connections to any one of 3 nodes in this same
cluster at during this same time window we would get SYS$ANNOUNCE,
Username: prompt and Password: prompt in seconds (probably less).
Eventually we could make the connections either way just fine.
Anyone have any ideas as to what was happening and why the difference
between LAT and Telnet?
If more information is required let me know.
Thanks.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 697.1 | Difficult to diagnose after the fact... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Thu Jun 05 1997 15:52 | 18 |
Given the consistency of the location of the problem in the login sequence, this would appear to be a host-related problem, not a transport problem. I'd expect there were some locks held on the system authorization files by some slower (batch) jobs, and that the difference between LAT vs Telnet is little more than a fluke. (If these commands were interspersed, and a consistent transport-specific difference was noted, then there might be something going on in LAT...) Use DECamds -- see the OpenVMS documentation set for details on this seperately-installed tool -- to look at the locking. Older versions of DECamds are licensed with a VMScluster -- more recent versions don't require a VMScluster license. I'd suspect any information on the actual cause is long gone... | |||||