fcmsutil reports "Error Idle Interrupts"

[A. Daniel King_1]

Under HP-UX 11.0, on at 5158 fiber card ...

#fcmsutil /dev/td7 stat

...
Error Idle Interrupts 1092
...

What is this? Is this any cause for alarm?

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

These messages are generated by the tach chip.

Error Idle Interrupts is the equivalent of a EMS Event #17 which bests describes this event:

Event 17
Severity: Information
Description: The Fibre Channel Driver received an ERQ frozen interrupt from the adapter
Cause:The Tachyon TL adapter generated an interrupt indicating that the ERQ has been frozen. This is caused by the driver requesting the Tachyon TL chip to freeze the ERQ.
Action:No action is required. Informative message.The driver will recover from this condition

The ERQ Frozen event is a Event #24:
Event 24
Severity: Information
Description: The Fibre Channel Driver received a FCP assists completion message
Cause:The Tachyon TL adapter generated an interrupt indicating that the FCP Assists have been frozen. This is caused by the driver requesting the Tachyon TL chip to freeze the FCP Assists.
Action:No action required. Informative message. The driver will recover from this condition.

These can be viewed at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/ems/dm_TL_adapter.htm

If you need more information that this, it would be best to talk to someone in HW support.
Cheryl