Lots of entries in the log files after synchroizing the clock

Marcelo_NEC — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:34:47 GMT

Hi NetApp community.

We noticied that some our clock were out of sync, and after synchronizing, we set up a crontab to run the command "set storageArray time" every night.

# crontab -l

(...)

* 3 * * * /maint/netapp/netapp_sync_clock.sh

But now we see in the "major-event-log.txt"

# grep -e 'Date/Time:' -e 'Description:' major-event-log.txt | head
Date/Time: 6/21/18 4:01:07 AM
Description: Controller return status/function call for requested operation
Date/Time: 6/21/18 4:01:07 AM
Description: Synchronize controller clock
Date/Time: 6/21/18 4:00:49 AM
Description: Controller return status/function call for requested operation
Date/Time: 6/21/18 4:00:49 AM
Description: Synchronize controller clock

(...)

# grep -e 'Date/Time:' -e 'Description:' major-event-log.txt | wc -l
16384

Why this happens? Is this normal?

Thanks for your attention.

Marcelo

Re: Lots of entries in the log files after synchroizing the clock

AlexDawson — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:40:00 GMT

Hi there,

This may be due to a BURT detailed in https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1005736/loc/en_US#__highlight

Suggested response is to upgrade Santricity OS

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