[Ace] Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

Tue Sep 7 13:47:47 EDT 2021

The timeouts being reported via cavitybypass are wider than just iocnl4

this morning to iocnl2:

https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3901900

Over the weekend the timeouts happened for both iocnl4 and iocsl4

https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3900887
https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3900743

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Subject: Re: Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

Just to start a list of the reported problems, here is what I could gather from the emails.
iochallmag - myrestore caput issue
iocnl4 - cavity bypass failure
Hall B line - unkown fopt problem
NL05 rf - myrestore issue - new zone new rf type hardware, embedded ioc's with soft ioc.

Don't see any network related errors/issues/utilization with any of the associated network ports or network as a whole.  I will continue to keep an eye on things.

Please reply if there is anything I may have missed.
--
Brad Cumbia

Accelerator Network Engineer
Accelerator SysAdmin Group

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
12000 Jefferson Avenue
Newport News, Virginia 23606
Phone (757)269-5839

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Subject: Re: [Controls_dept] Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.
Had an issue on Friday Sept. 3 where I rebooted iocsoftnl05rf for a change and myRestore restored from Aug 19th instead
of Sept 3 right before the reboot. This prevented OPS from restoring beam.
Worked through the issue with Theo and found that the archiver stopped archiving some EPICS PV's that were part
of the active Restore Set for iocsoftnl05rf. These were random signals from the restore set with no noticeable pattern. The archiver
has an algorithm were if it thinks a PV has gone away after some period of time it stops archiving it. However these PV's
never went away. This was the first time I have seen this happen.

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Subject: Re: [Controls_dept] Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

Here's one from Friday that probably falls in this category.  Failed on some caputs, although channels were available:
https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3900716

Another attempt shortly after succeeded:
https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3900725

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Subject: Re: Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

Omar,

Do you remember which IOCs these were?  PC104s or something else?  Was it part of a mass reboot or just a single IOC?

Thanks,
Adam

Adam Carpenter
Accelerator Operations Software Department
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
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Subject: Re: [Ace] Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

Is anything machine dependent?

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Subject: Re: [Controls_dept] Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

What's the suspicion?  Has there been a big uptick in network traffic recently, or have we gradually been approaching some limit?  Or just some failing hardware somewhere?

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Subject: Re: [Controls_dept] Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

This nay also be related

In the past weeks, we have also performed hard reboots on iocs with  multiple tries failing to complete network connections  .

2-3 hard reboots to  succeed.

Omar

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Subject: [Ace] Network timeouts being reported from various applications -- feels ominous.

Observing that in the past 24 hours there have been several seemingly unrelated applications having trouble making connections to EPICS signals.

Cavity History

https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3900743

FOPT

https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3900317

myRestore

https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3900705

It might be wise to start looking for signs of distress in name server, softIOC hosts, network switches, etc.

-Theo

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