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1136937 2010-09-13 21:48:00 Good morning all,

We've got an error message appearing on a server, it seems to occur most mornings around 8AM (See attached) on a Server 2003 box here.

Did a bit of looking into it, apparently it may have been relating to a disc not being in a CD Drive or something along those lines? The annoying thing is it breaks our monitoring via SNMP until we login remotely to the admin console and clear the error message. Just clicking on "OK" and it disappears for the day, and SNMP resumes immediately.

It's a MSSQL server too, so if a disk was missing, we'd probably have users complaining pretty quickly that things weren't working.

Does anybody have any ideas on what may be causing this / how to resolve it?

Any suggestions much appreciated,

Cheers


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
1136938 2010-09-13 22:37:00 Read this:?

www.consumingexperience.com 		pctek (84)
1136939 2010-09-13 22:51:00 Yes, it's the first Google result when you throw in half the error message ;)

I've done scans for malware / viruses
I've just tried putting in a floppy disk image into the machine also. I guess I should have mentioned it's a VM on ESXi, sorry for leaving that out.

Nice to meet you on the weekend too :) 		Chilling_Silence (9)
1136940 2010-09-13 23:48:00 Ah well, I'm not a server guru......thought it worth a guess......
You know you look far too young to be out of school...... 		pctek (84)
1136941 2010-09-13 23:51:00 Good morning all,

We've got an error message appearing on a server, it seems to occur most mornings around 8AM (See attached) on a Server 2003 box here.

Did a bit of looking into it, apparently it may have been relating to a disc not being in a CD Drive or something along those lines? The annoying thing is it breaks our monitoring via SNMP until we login remotely to the admin console and clear the error message. Just clicking on "OK" and it disappears for the day, and SNMP resumes immediately.

It's a MSSQL server too, so if a disk was missing, we'd probably have users complaining pretty quickly that things weren't working.

Does anybody have any ideas on what may be causing this / how to resolve it?

Any suggestions much appreciated,

Cheers




Chill.

Have you tried a cold boot? 		SolMiester (139)
1136942 2010-09-14 02:55:00 You know you look far too young to be out of school......

Technically I was homeschooled, and finished high-school equivalents a decade ago now ... but thanks, I'll keep that in mind when I'm 40, might make me feel younger :D

We could do a cold-boot, but it's in-use 24/7 (Honestly is!) so any downtime is less than ideal.

Any other ideas?

Thanks :)


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
1136943 2010-09-14 03:14:00 Technically I was homeschooled, and finished high-school equivalents a decade ago now ... but thanks, I'll keep that in mind when I'm 40, might make me feel younger :D

We could do a cold-boot, but it's in-use 24/7 (Honestly is!) so any downtime is less than ideal.

Any other ideas?

Thanks :)


Chill.

Off-topic I know, but are you replicating it if it's used that much? 		nofam (9009)
1136944 2010-09-14 06:35:00 I'll keep that in mind when I'm 40, might make me feel younger :D

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Your wife will hate you because you'll be one of those people that looks young even when old.......:D 		pctek (84)
1136945 2010-09-14 10:33:00 Technically I was homeschooled, and finished high-school equivalents a decade ago now ... but thanks, I'll keep that in mind when I'm 40, might make me feel younger :D

We could do a cold-boot, but it's in-use 24/7 (Honestly is!) so any downtime is less than ideal.

Any other ideas?

Thanks :)


Chill.
Doh, just remembered you said the server is a VM, can you not connect\disconnect the cd drive with esxi? 		SolMiester (139)
1136946 2010-09-14 11:03:00 Does anything show up in the event logs? Deimos (5715)
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