IBM Tivoli Monitoring

Issue

ECS Community edition will fail to completely initialize the storage pool on machines that have the IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent installed. The storage pool will forever stick in the "Initializing" state and attempts to create a VDC will result in HTTP 400 errors.

Analysis

Doing a ps -ef inside the container will show that dataheadsvc and metering are restarting frequently. Looking at /opt/storageos/logs/metering.log will show a bind exception on port 10110. This port is already bound by Tivoli's k10agent process.

Workaround

1. Uninstall Tivoli Monitoring or
2. Change the port on impacted nodes.

Changing the port on ECS

On all nodes, you will need to edit /opt/storageos/conf/mt-var.xml to change the bind port from 10110 to 10109. Edit the file and change the line:

<property name="serviceUrl" value="service:jmx:rmi://127.0.0.1:10110/jndi/rmi://127.0.0.1:10111/sos" />

to:

<property name="serviceUrl" value="service:jmx:rmi://127.0.0.1:10109/jndi/rmi://127.0.0.1:10111/sos" />

Then restart the metering service:

kill `pidof metering`