How to troubleshoot Perforce Server?

Step 1 – Get Comfortable with directory structure and files?

• /etc/perforce/
• /etc/perforce/p4dctl.conf.d/master.conf – Server Config file
• /etc/perforce/p4dctl.conf.d/p4p-master.conf – proxy Config file
• /opt/perforce/sbin – Perforce Server
• /opt/perforce/bin – Peforce Client
• /opt/perforce/servers/master – Files and Database of perforce Depot
• /opt/perforce/servers/p4p-master – Cache Perforce Proxy
• /opt/perforce/servers/master/logs – Logs files
• /etc/init.d/helix-p4dctl – Service file

Step 2 – Check the permission of following files. it should owned by Perforce

• /opt/perforce/
  $ chown -R perforce:perforce .

Step 3 – Check the Size of Storage

Step 4 – Check the CPU utilization

Step 5 – Check the RAM utilization

Step 6 – Check the Firewall for port used in Perforce

Step 7 – Check the certificates

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