ALARMD System Log Messages

This chapter describes messages with the ALARMD prefix. They are generated by the alarm process (alarmd).

ALARMD_CONFIG_ACCESS_ERROR

System Log Message

function-name: error-message

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) experienced the indicated problem while attempting to parse the configuration database.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_CONFIG_CLOSE_ERROR

System Log Message

Unable to close configuration database

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not close the configuration database.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_CONFIG_PARSE_ERROR

System Log Message

Unable to parse configuration; using defaults

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not parse the configuration and used default values while initializing.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_CONFIG_RECONFIG_ERROR

System Log Message

Re-configuration failed, using previous values

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not parse new configuration and used previous values.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_CONNECTION_FAILURE

System Log Message

after count attempts process-name connect returned error: error-message

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) was unable to connect to the indicated process

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

warning

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

ALARMD_DECODE_ALARM_OBJECT_ERROR

System Log Message

Cannot decode error test from object alarm-object, reason alarm-reason for if_name interface-type

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) encountered invalide alarm object.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_EXISTS

System Log Message

alarmd already running; exiting

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) exited because it discovered that another alarmd process is already running.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

ALARMD_EXISTS_TERM_OTHER

System Log Message

Killing existing alarmd and exiting

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) discovered that another alarmd process is already running. It terminated the other process and exited.

Type

Event: This message reports an event, not an error

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

ALARMD_IFDALARM_TYPE_ERROR

System Log Message

Unknown interface alarm type: alarm-type

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not recognize an interface type alarm due to it's unknown alarm type.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_IFDEV_RTSLIB_FAILURE

System Log Message

function-name: library-function-name failed on error-message socket (socket-option)

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) failed to access an interface device because an error occurred during the indicated call to the routing socket library.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_IPC_MSG_ERROR

System Log Message

function-name: error code error-code, type message-type, subtype message-subtype, opcode message-opcode

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) detected an error in an interprocess communication (IPC) message with the indicated characteristics.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_IPC_MSG_WRITE_ERROR

System Log Message

alarmd_send_msg: ipc_msg_write failed: error-message.

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) is not able to write a new ipc message to the given ipc pipe.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

warning

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

ALARMD_IPC_UNEXPECTED_CONN

System Log Message

Invalid connection id: connection-who

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) received an ipc message from an unexpected connection.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_IPC_UNEXPECTED_MSG

System Log Message

function-name: invalid message received: message (message type message-type, subtype message-subtype)

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) received an unexpected message with the indicated characteristics.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_MEM_ALLOC_FAILURE

System Log Message

function-name: alarmd memory allocation failed

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not allocate memory.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_MGR_CONNECT

System Log Message

function-name evSelectFD: initial pipe create aborted (errno error-code)

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not open a pipe for interprocess communication (IPC).

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_MULTIPLE_ALARM_BIT_ERROR

System Log Message

Multiple alarm bits: 0xalarm-bit

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) expected one alarm bit set for an interface alarm when it received multiple.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

ALARMD_PIDFILE_OPEN

System Log Message

Unable to open PID file 'filename': errno error-code

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not open the file where it stores its process ID (PID).

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Cause

The alarm process (alarmd)might have detected that another alarmd process was running and tried to read the file so that it could use the PID recorded there when terminating the other process.

ALARMD_PIPE_WRITE_ERROR

System Log Message

Pipe write error: error-message

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) experienced a fatal error while writing to a pipe.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Cause

There was no reader for the pipe.

ALARMD_SOCKET_CREATE

System Log Message

Unable to create socket for process-name connection: errno error-code

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) could not create socket.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

ALARMD_UNEXPECTED_EXIT

System Log Message

evMainLoop returned return-value (errno error-code)

Description

The alarm process (alarmd) exited unexpectedly and reported the indicated error.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON