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April 13th, 2010 15:00
persistent enable fails on brocade bladecenter switch to isl to ds4900
I am having an issue in being able to persistently enable port 0 on my new blade center switch, which is where I plug in the isl connection. I have a few other switches like this (brocade 4020s or 4024s) and have never had an issue using the portcfgpersistentenable 0 command. Today when I try it, I get the error message
Port Action Failed
Error when persistent enable port 0 - Operation not supported on this port.
I just upgraded the FOS to 6.2.1b, which is what the rest of my switches are running. The port is licensed, and from what I can see it is set up like all the other ones that are working. I know this command should work because when I upgrade the firmware, my other switches regularly persistently disable port 0 during the "non-disruptive" reboot. All my switches in my fabric are brocades, even though the blade center switches are in the IBM chassis.
Any ideas?
dynamox
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April 13th, 2010 15:00
Are all ports licensed ?
Licenseport --show
zzanne
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April 14th, 2010 06:00
I have 10 licenses on the switch. The ports I'm using are licensed - 0 being the one I'm having issue with.
Output:
20 ports are available in this switch
No POD licenses are installed
Dynamic POD method is in use
10 port assignments are provisioned for use in this switch:
10 port assignments are provisioned by the base switch license
* 5 port assignments are added if the first POD license is installed
* 5 more assignments are added if the second POD license is installed
5 ports are assigned to installed licenses:
5 ports are assigned to the base switch license
Ports assigned to the base switch license:
0*, 1*, 2*, 15*, 16*
Ports assigned to the first POD license:
None
Ports assigned to the second POD license:
None
Ports not assigned to a license:
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19
5 license reservations are still available for use by unassigned ports
5 license assignments are held by offline ports (indicated by *)
zzanne
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April 14th, 2010 10:00
That's just the way they come. All of the 4020 type model of those switches has first shown up to me as persistently disabled. In order to ISL, I have to persistently enable the port or the little red light won't come on. Also, I've had to upgrade the FOS on all of these a few times and my oldest switches pretty much always persistently disable at some point during the upgrade, causing my ISL to go away. My new ones don't seem to do that. I'm not the one in charge of the blade centers, so I'm not sure if something that is being done before I am able to get into my switches is causing the disable, or if that is how they are supposed to be.
zzanne
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April 14th, 2010 10:00
I figured out my problem. Apparently the admin of the blade chassis did not enable external managment for my switch. After that was changed to enabled, I am able to persistently enable my port 0.
dynamox
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April 14th, 2010 10:00
Annette,
i am just curious why are you persistently enabling the port ? I have a bunch of 4024 that are isl'ed to a McData director and i never had to do that.
Thanks
dynamox
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April 14th, 2010 10:00
very interesting, i have not experience that on our 4024 but they all come with all ports licensed (if that has anything to do with it). Thank you for sharing.