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тАО01-21-2011 09:45 AM
тАО01-21-2011 09:45 AM
Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
We have many HP RX servers with multiple unused 2 or 4 port cards. Currently these cards are configured in status "AWAITING_LINK_UP"
Recently a port on one of these unused cards attempted to activate:
vmunix: 0/0/4/1/0/4/0: Fabric Name Server rejected GPN_FT query.
vmunix: Reason code: unable to perform request;
vmunix: Explanation: FC-4 Type not registered.
vmunix: This may indicate that the HBA port is not part of a zone.
vmunix: Please check zone configuration on your switch.
While no damage was done, it did create alarms.
I could not determine what caused this card to attempt to activate.
1) Perhaps something changed on the fabric switch ?
Since this card is unused
1) I could it be simply disable it.
2) Would there be any unwanted side effects from disabling an unused card ?
3) Could unused cards set in a state other than disabled, so they won't turn noisy?
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тАО01-21-2011 09:59 AM
тАО01-21-2011 09:59 AM
Re: Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
If those are NOT cabled and you had those messages, then someone must have plugged in an FC Cable?
Check via: fcmsutil /dev/tdN or /dev/fcdN
If it has a link active.
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тАО01-21-2011 10:05 AM
тАО01-21-2011 10:05 AM
Re: Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
-Bad HBA /or unzoned
-Bad cable /no connection
-Bad switch/storage port on the other side or
not configured
Possibly it was configured as a stand by so
it got tried to activate.
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тАО01-21-2011 10:49 AM
тАО01-21-2011 10:49 AM
Re: Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
They aren't used.
They are extra installed FC cards.
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тАО01-21-2011 10:50 AM
тАО01-21-2011 10:50 AM
Re: Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
So, that does seem possible ? Agreed ?
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тАО01-21-2011 10:51 AM
тАО01-21-2011 10:51 AM
Re: Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
Something came along and attempted to activate/connect to it.
Frankly, I don't know what happened to cause that.
Short of removing the card, I'm wondering what the best method of dealing with this problem is.
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тАО01-21-2011 10:57 AM
тАО01-21-2011 10:57 AM
Re: Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
with the below commands.
/opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil device_file -f disable
/opt/fcms/bin/fcmsutil device_file enable
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тАО01-21-2011 11:08 AM
тАО01-21-2011 11:08 AM
Re: Fibre Channel Card Status: AWAITING_LINK_UP
Agreed. Cable was plugged in or switch port was activated.
Hope this helps!
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тАО01-21-2011 11:34 AM
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