The TCA-CP root partition is filled 100%

Products

• VMware Telco Cloud Automation

Issue/Introduction

The root partition for the TCA Control Plane appliance is filled to 100%

Environment

2.3

Cause

• The logrotate functionality fails to rotate the messages log file under the /var/log/ directory
• This file should normally rotate once it reaches 10MB in size but fails to and can grow into multiple GB in size

Resolution

Resolved in TCA 3.x.

Workaround:

1. Access the TCA-CP appliance using SSH
2. Confirm the partition is full using the following command
   # du -h
3. Navigate to the /var/log directory and confirm the messages file has grown large in size
   # cd /var/log
# ls -lh
# rm messages
4. Restart the syslog service
   # systemctl restart syslog-ng