Just upgraded my Brightmail 8240 appliance from 9.5.1 to 9.5.2.
The upgrade crashed just as describe in this article :
I did follow the solution, and the update finally succeeded. After a reboot from the upgraded appliance, I got an error from the box :
======================= ALERT NOTIFICATION ================================
The following hardware components are not responding/working:
Host Component Problem
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SomeHost DISK Unknown
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I've tried to restart the snmpd service, and the problem switch from UNKNOWN to ERROR.
I've restarted the appliance, and the controller claim that the RAID array is optimal, so the problem seems to be elsewhere.
Looking carfully at the rebooting appliance, I was able to see this error when trying to load AFASNMPD
/etc/init.d/afasnmpd: line 30: /dev/MAKEDEV.afa: no such file or directory.
Looking further, it looks like AFASNMPD is taking care of my RAID controller monitoring. If I try to stop this service, I'll get a FAILED error. Starting up the service again will bring the same MAKEDEV.afa error.
This doesn't look critical, but I would like to get rid of these warning. Is it a known issue ? Is it related to my earlier crash while updating ? Is there a fix ?
Thank you!