Aria Operations for Logs is down.

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• The Aria Operations for Logs UI is down and inaccessible.
• The node(s) are accessible via SSH.

Environment

Aria Operations for Logs 8.x

Cause

The root partition is full on one or more nodes in the cluster. This can be checked by running the following on each node in the cluster:

df -h

Note: Typically, the root partition is either sda4 or sda5.

In the /var/log/ directory, the messages file has grown to over 4GB. Run the following to check the file sizes:

cd /var/log
ls -lthrS

 

Resolution

The /var/log/messages file can be truncated by running the following commands:

cd /var/log/
truncate -s 0 messages

or

cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages

Check the utilization again:

df -h

The boot partition should be around 40 - 45%. If this is true, then reboot the nodes.

Note: If you find many files with a 0 byte size, you may delete these as well by navigating to the appropriate directory and running:

find . -maxdepth 1 -empty -delete