topic Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

Andres Bohren — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:10:23 GMT

Hi all,

We have two ESX Servers with HP Agents 7.80 installed. In Insight Manager and on the SHM the two unused NIC's are reported with the orange Icon. Can i somehow configure the NIC Agents witch Interfaces to monitor?

Thank's Andres

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

Michael Felkins — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:05:59 GMT

I have the same problem with unused HBA ports. Any help or ideas?

Mike

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

Arnold van Poecke_1 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:03:21 GMT

I have the same problem.
DL380G5 and NC364T with only 2 ports used, the other ports are reported with link down in HP SIM.
Howto disabled this?

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

Andres Bohren — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:22:00 GMT

Even when you shut down the Interface in the Console, the Agent still reporting a failure...

Hope this will be fixed in the next release.

Best Regards
Andres

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

Paul_627 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:24:19 GMT

See:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1159203

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

ffrancois — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:37:37 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem with smh hpmgmt-8.0.0-vmware3x.

2 unused NICs report failure.

Did you found a solution

thx
francois

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

James Kennedy_4 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:35:18 GMT

I use the ifconfig command on the console to shut the nic's down.

Type 'ifconfig', it will display all your nics.
Look for the ones that aren't transmitting (TX/RX should be 0)

Then type 'ifconfig nic down' (where nic is the name of the nic)

This seems to work most of the time, but it doesn't hold after a reboot, so I usually have to do them all over again. Luckily VMware hosts are rarely rebooted.

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

Dana Swanson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:38:41 GMT

As a work around you can run a normal network cable from one port to another and "fool" the network cards, making them appear to be on a network. The gigabit standard creates a crossover connection when you use a normal non-crossover network cable.

Dana

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

ffrancois — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:50:10 GMT

Ifconfig nic down works fine for me.

Is someone know how disable this at boot in ESX.

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

MuhammadN — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:30:24 GMT

use "ifconfig vmnicX down" -- where X = nic #

Re: ESX 3.0.2 Unused NICs reporting Failure

Chammond — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:52:30 GMT

Add the command to /etc/rc.local.

Chris