Problem in APA configuration

[Sanjoy Paul]

Hi ,

I am facing problem in APA configuration in a VPAR of Rx8640 machine , OS verion: 11.31
Here is the details :
We have got 2 NICs , 4 ports ( 2 per NIC ) in each VPAR

For the concerned VPAR , the ports are lan5,lan6.lan12,lan13

LAN 5 --> SW05 port:g12/5 lan901
LAN 6--------> backup swictch
lan12 --> SW06 port:g10/5 LAN901
lan13--------> backup switch

Backup APA ports go to same backup switch and dedicated for backup activity . Production APA ports are going to ports of two different switchs ( SW05 & SW06 ) . Backup bonded ports are working fine when proper gateway is set . Production bonded ports are not working . Only responding to ping , no telnet or ssh is happening .

Please help us to resolve this issue

[Jim Keeble]

Do you have the production and backup NICs connected to different subnets? Also, it's fairly unusual to have ports on two different switches aggregated together, as you describe your production. Here's how this would normally look:

lan902 is a Lan Monitor Failover group that contains:

lan901, link aggregate that contains:
lan5
lan12
lan5 and lan12 are on SW05, and
configured as a "channel" (Cisco) or
"trunk" (most other switch vendors'
terminology).

lan900, link aggregate that contains:
lan6
lan13
lan6 and lan13 are on SW05, and
configured as a "channel" (Cisco) or
"trunk" (most other switch vendors'
terminology).

lan902 will be the interface name that has your production IP. lan901 will be primary, and the production IP will "fail over" to lan900 if lan901 goes down.

If you are trying to have lan 6 and 13 to standby for your production, and production and backup are different subnets, that's not how failover works, sorry.