topic Re: Interconnect status unknown in BladeSystem - General

Interconnect status unknown

rccmum — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:01:56 GMT

Hello,

I have a c7000 chassis with blades running linux. The chassis suddenly lost connectivity.
I see following errors in the OA syslog. Can someone please advise me how to troubleshoot this problem?

Jan 22 13:19:49 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 6 changed to Unknown
Jan 22 13:19:49 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 2 changed to Unknown
Jan 22 13:19:50 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 5 changed to Unknown
Jan 22 13:20:06 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 6 changed to OK
Jan 22 13:20:06 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 6 changed to Unknown
Jan 22 13:20:06 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 2 changed to OK
Jan 22 13:20:06 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 2 changed to Unknown
Jan 22 13:20:06 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 5 changed to OK
Jan 22 13:20:06 OA: Health status of interconnect in bay 5 changed to Unknown

Thanks in advance.

Re: Interconnect status unknown

JKytsi — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:43:38 GMT

start with ILO and OA firmwares.
Update ILOs first then OA

Re: Interconnect status unknown

Raghuarch — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:09:17 GMT

You need to remove the OA tray not the OA module and reinsert the same.

What is the version of OA you are using.

Re: Interconnect status unknown

rccmum — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:03:47 GMT

The OA version is 2.20

Is it really a OA issue? I was suspecting an issue with the interconnect as their status was being changed.

Re: Interconnect status unknown

Raghuarch — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:38:21 GMT

First thing i would suggest is update the OA to 2.32.
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=329290&prodSeriesId=3188465&prodNameId=3188475&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-799b3bc32a6041b78c9b0a4de5

If you are still seeing the error, Remove and Insert the OA tray ... If the OA tray is not seated properly you see this kind of messages.

Looking at the messages i think it should have been a reset of the IO module.

Did you loose the connectivity or you saw these messages and assumed that you lost connectivity? .... Is it back now?

Re: Interconnect status unknown

rccmum — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:54:49 GMT

We did loose the connectivity. The blades came back up after a while. Maybe some reset was taken place internally but not sure what exactly happened. Nothing was done physically on the chassis, everything worked after sometime.

The health status changed within a sec from OK to unknown which is interesting. Maybe there was communication problem between OA to VC-Enet modules?

I wanted to know VC firmware vesion. Looking at show all output, it doesn't show it??

The only way to get VC firmware is through VC manager GUI?

Re: Interconnect status unknown

JKytsi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:14:07 GMT

Re: Interconnect status unknown

rccmum — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:18:29 GMT

How do I know the VC firmare version currently on the modules using CLI?

I know VC GUI can show that. Does VC offers CLI?

Re: Interconnect status unknown

Raghuarch — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:54:35 GMT

From OA execute connect interconnect
Login to VC CLI.

In The first line you will see the version. it will be before copyright information.

HP Virtual Connect Management CLI v1.xx

Re: Interconnect status unknown

rccmum — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:22:56 GMT

Thanks!