Description | This article describes how to troubleshoot 'PH_DATAMANAGER_EVTIDX_WRITE_POST_ERROR' errors for a specific worker. |
Scope | FortiSIEM Worker. |
Solution |
This issue is mainly reported for a single worker among other workers and the Supervisor, it is also noticed for the query worker as well.
The following errors have been observed in backend logs.
tail -f /opt/phoenix/log/phoenix.log | grep -i 'PH_DATAMANAGER_EVTIDX_WRITE_POST_ERROR'
2025-07-13T11:51:11.869198+03:00 fsiem-qwkr phDataManager[86900]: [PH_DATAMANAGER_EVTIDX_WRITE_POST_ERROR]:[eventSeverity]=PHL_ERROR,[procName]=phDataManager,[fileName]=EventIndexFile.cpp,[lineNumber]=548,[fileName]=/data/eventdb/CUSTOMER_1/internal/20279/486696-486719-2886866843/tmpseg-5-5811-2147894505-1752105600-1752191999/index/1039n.pst,[errReason]=Current posting is less than last posting,[phLogDetail]=Event index file write posting error
The error can be resolved using the mentioned steps and approach.
Index file and prepare a list of index files, e.g., from above errors, /data/eventdb/CUSTOMER_1/internal/20279/486696-486719-2886866843/tmpseg-5-5811-2147894505-1752105600-1752191999/index/1039n.pst
rm -rf data/eventdb/CUSTOMER_1/internal/20279/486696-486719-2886866843/tmpseg-5-5811-2147894505-1752105600-1752191999/index/1039n.pst
su admin phtools --stop phDataManager phtools --start phDataManager
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