system shut down cleanly?

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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:55:31 +0000
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

We had a system down when we arrived in this morning. We had a DBA logged in
with SU access. We diagnosed the problem as below. Is there anything elso to
check. I cant get into a blame game with no proof of wrong doing. As it
stands, the system may have shutdown, but I cant see how.
An help would be appreciated.

Alan

1. We looked for a crash dump file. There is none present.

2. We looked at all the log files. The log files showed no evidence of any
unusual occurrences. The boot sequence gave no indication of an unclean
system shutdown.
checked messages, biblog, syslogs etc

3. We ran a sys_check on the system, to make sure we hadnt missed anything
silly. Again we found nothing to suggest the system had crashed.

4. The system is monitored by the HP Collect utility. From this utility we
were able to pinpoint the system going down to within 10/15 seconds.

5. Once we had the exact downtime of the system, we were able to use the
collect utility to see what was running and who was logged in at that time.
No unusual processes were running.

6. Oracle was not shut down cleanly on the system.

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