[Info-vax] SYSMAN - insufficient event flags?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-02-27 23:45:02 +0000, mcleanjoh at gmail.com said:

> Just lately we've been seeing a problem with SYSMAN, a problem that 
> returns the message(s) ...
> 
> %SYSMAN-I-OUTPUT, command execution on node NODEN2
> %SYSMAN-I-NODERR, error returned from node NODEN2
> -LIB-F-INSEF, insufficient event flags
> 
> What's the cause?

Too few event flags, obviously.  Use of event flags often being a more 
general problem for application development, too.

> What's the cure?

Fix the SYSMAN code (probably not feasible for most folks reading this 
newsgroup), or restart the SMI server to paper over the bug.

As for the background...

Tossed the query /SYSMAN LIB-F-INSEF, insufficient event flags/ at the 
Bing search engine and that kicked out the following quote: "There is a 
known bug ("known limitation") in SYSMAN, still present in 8.4: if one 
uses it a lot, one can get the "insufficient event flags" error.  
Workaround is to kill the SMI processes, de-assign some logical names 
and restart the SMI server."   That'll probably show up in a Google 
Groups search, as well.

Tried a slightly tailored search /openvms sysman insufficient event 
flags/ via the Google search engine and that kicked out the following 
HP forums discussion: 
<http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Management/OpenVMS-v7-3-1-Cluster-SYSMAN-insufficient-event-flags/td-p/5025334> 


General recommendation beyond applying patches and related is to 
STOP/ID the SMISERVER process on the node that's reported back the 
cited INSEF error and then issue the following DCL command on that same 
node to restart the SYSMAN daemon: @SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP SMISERVER


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