Guidelines for error analysis

An error can sometimes have a cascade effect resulting in additional errors, given that the failure of one routine can also cause subsequent routines in its track to fail. Some of these errors affect only the thread of a particular client process, while others errors can affect the OpenSwitch server or coordination module process itself.

Errors that originate from the same thread have the same stored procedure ID (spid) in the OpenSwitch error log. Whenever possible, check the first error in a series of errors that share the same spid to diagnose the root cause of the problem.

Most errors result from: