VIOS IVM unavailable - how do I restart it?

UNIX AIX
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Hi everyone,
Sorry if this post is in the wrong place. I searched the forums for "IVM" and it turned up no results. Hopefully someone knows about this. My dilemma is that I have multiple IBM JS12 Express blades in our blade center, each running VIOS 2.1.0.10-FP-20.1 and hosting a couple LPARs. Out of my 6 VIO servers, 3 of them have unavailable IVMs. The IVM (Integrated Virtualization Manager) is the web interface that comes up when you bring up http://<hostname> in a browser. On the 3 VIO servers experiencing this issue, I'm getting page cannot be displayed when going to the IVM. SSH works fine and I'm not finding any services stopped that should be running.

I don't know when or why the IVM has stopped working on half my VIO servers but I'd like to find a way to start the IVM without rebooting the blades. Reboots will surely fix this but will also cause production outages for the LPARs running on each blade - I'm trying to avoid that.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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I have only had one IVM act that way. I didn't have any luck, and in the end had to reboot the blade. Hopefully, you won't have that problem.

Have you SSH'd or Telnet'd into the IVM. Perhaps restarting the HTTP daemon would do the trick.

oem_setup_env

That command will break you out of the restricted shell, and give you root access on the box.

ps -ef | grep http

Shows this "/usr/bin/ksh /usr/ios/lpm/sbin/httpdmgr start" so issuing a "restart" there might do the trick.'

Good luck.

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smurphy,
Thanks a bunch for the advice. I switched out of the restricted shell to get root access and grepped for http. Sure enough, it wasn't running. Executing "/usr/ios/lpm/sbin/httpdmgr start" gave me an error stating that lwistart.sh was not running. I located that at /usr/ios/lpm/gui/httpd/bin/ and executed it. That's now running, and when I run httpdmgr start it now says "Error: lwistart.sh is already running. Done" So I'm not sure what this thing wants. It's not happy whether or not lwistart.sh is running. Seems to be sending me in circles. So I ended up opening a PMR with IBM and I'll post the solution when we find one.

Thanks!

---------- Post updated at 11:24 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:20 AM ----------

HA! Guess I spoke too soon. I just checked the IVM web interface again after posting my reply and now it's available. So it apparently needs some time after executing lwistart.sh before it becomes available. Seemed to take about 10 minutes.

Thanks again, smurphy. Your advice worked. I just needed a little patience. :slight_smile: