NIC Team Redundancy decreased

[Andrew Barcus]

I have a NIC team on a ProLiant 785-G5 consisting of four Gigabit NICs (2 each connected to separate HP J4819A ProCurve Switch 5308xl units). The server runs SQL2000 and is a busy little box.

On occasion the following event log message occurs. There are no corresponding error events in our switch logs. Does anyone know or have a theory as to why the team becomes degraded?

Log Name: System
Message Source: HP Ethernet
Event ID: 4
User: -
Event Message
An Ethernet team's redundancy has decreased. A team member has changed to failed or degraded state.

[Roger Faucher]

Andrew:

What software version are you running on your 5308xl units?

Have you checked for newer NIC drivers?

32bit:

http://tinyurl.com/7qhuze

64bit:

http://tinyurl.com/74wnc2

Have you been able to determine which of the 4 NICs fails to see if it's consistently the same one?

Make a great day!

Roger