[MTP] Manual Vertica Database Rebuild Procedure
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[MTP] Manual Vertica Database Rebuild Procedure

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Article ID: 9674

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Products

CA Application Delivery Analysis MTP (NetQoS / ADA)

Issue/Introduction

The ADA Multi-Port Monitor stores short term application performance metrics in a Vertica database. This database can fail or become corrupt for several reasons and may need to be rebuilt. In the event that a rebuild is necessary, it is best to completely remove Vertica and rebuild it.

 

Vertica corruption can happen for many reasons, the most prominent being:

1) The Multi-Port Monitor was rebooted, crashed, or halted without the database being in a 'STOP' state.

2) The /nqxfs filesystem may have become corrupt

3) The Multi-Port was upgraded to 10.3 (known issue)



Environment

MTP All VersionsCentOS 5.X & 6.X

Resolution

1)Even though Vertica runs on localhost, we have sometimes seen problems when there are oddities/inconsistencies with DNS resolution of the MTP host name.  The best way we’ve found to resolve this is to add an entry in the /etc/hosts file to make sure the MTP host name is properly resolved.  

     a) On the MTP, add an entry to the /etc/hosts file for the MTP’s IP address and hostname.  Note:  you must have root privileges to edit this file; when logged in using the netqos account, you will need to prefix the edit command with sudo:

 

                sudo  vi  /etc/hosts

 

An example of the entry that gives the IP followed by the fully qualified domain name followed by the short name would be:

                10.0.0.1      mtp1.example.local  mtp1

 

     b)        Confirm that the MTP’s IP address and hostname can now be resolved consistently by performing the following commands:

                 hostname

                 nslookup   <ip address>

                 nslookup   <hostname>

                 ping –a    <hostname>

 

2)            Stop the processes that directly access the Vertica database.

                                sudo /opt/NetQoS/scripts/stopprocs.sh

 

3)            Confirm that there is no Vertica database processes running.  To find whether a Vertica process is running,                use the following command:

                                 ps -ef  | grep vertica

                If the Vertica process is running, it will display a line similar to the following:

                        dbadmin 9047 1 2 Jul02 ? 04:25:30 /opt/vertica/bin/vertica –C capture –D                                       /nqxfs/vertica/capture/v_capture_node0001_catalog –h            127.0.0.1 –p 5433

 

                If there is a process running, kill it using the Linux kill -9 <pid> command (e.g.  kill -9 9047  would kill the above process).

                 

4)            Manually drop the database (including making sure that the /nqxfs/vertica/capture folder is removed). Type out the following, do not copy

 

                                su  -  dbadmin  -c "/opt/vertica/bin/adminTools  -t  drop_db  -d capture"

 

                (when prompted for password, enter ‘dbadmin’).  Note syntax of command is different.  It is ‘su dash’

 

                For versions prior to 10.6 run: 

                                sudo    rm  -r  /nqxfs/vertica/capture

 

                 For 10.6 and later it should be

                                 sudo    rm  -r  /nqxfs/nq_runtime/vertica/capture


 

 

5)            Restart the Vertica spreadd daemon. **This step is for 10.3 and below ONLY**

                sudo   /sbin/service    spreadd   stop

                sudo   /sbin/service    spreadd   start

 

6)            Recreate the database.

                sudo  /opt/NetQoS/install/setupVertica.sh –new

 

7)            Restart the MTP services

                sudo /opt/NetQoS/scripts/startprocs.sh