lpfc 0000:07:00.0: 0:0459 Adapter heartbeat failure, taking this port offline.

[Fadia Almarei]

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Dear All

i have SLES 11 SP1 OS eunning on DL785 G6 server, today i get the following error which cause the SAN devices to be down , we are using VMAx storage with powerpath installed and even we have two fbre cards with two switch connection we get the SSAN device to be down

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kernel: [1378021.453319] lpfc 0000:07:00.0: 0:0459 Adapter heartbeat failure, taking this port offline.:

what is the error satnd for and what is the cause of the problem and how to solve it .

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

May be this link will give you an fair idea about this error.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02579995

The above link discusses the issue with RHEL but you will get an idea what to do with SLES.

[Fadia Almarei]

Dear Sir

thank you for your reponse

but the current kernel i have is 2.6.32.12-0.7-default ; hich is higher than the buged one

BR;

fadia Almarei