Solved: Standby CM Hangs in pending state

Michael Anderson · ‎06-17-2008

I have a Standby CM running 4.0.9 that we just installed. Tried to upgrade it to 4.0.19 and it just sat there in pending state for a long time. It appeared to be hung because I couldn't get to it remotely any longer. Rebooted the box and set it up as an AA instead. The game plan was to get it upgraded, then convert it to a Standby CM. So now the box sit's, showing online via the CM as a Standby CM (even though it's set to AA) and it still sits there in pending state. How can I get this resolved? TIA

dstolt · ‎06-18-2008

You cannot change device mode from the CM, only from the command line. I would de-register it from the CM again, configure the device mode, set the role as standby and then re-register it. Otherwise it's database settings may not allow it to function correctly. Changing device modes is a fairly intrusive process in CMS.

Interesting interface note. I have not seen that to date, however if you can recreate it, I would have the TAC open a DDTS on it. It would be worth tracking.

Dan

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dstolt · ‎06-17-2008

What version is the Primary CM running? standby CMs are only online if the primary and standbys are running the same version.

If you are converting it to a AA, I would restore factory default, delete it from the CM and readd it so it's database entries as a CM are removed.

Hope that helps,

Dan

Michael Anderson · ‎06-17-2008

The Primary CM is running 4.0.19. I managed to blow it away in the Primary CM. Forced a CMS de-registration on the AA. Re-registered it as an AA and got the code upgraded to 4.0.19. (I did hit what I believe is a bug her which I will explain later). Now I need to change it's funtion to a Standby CM but I don't know if I can do this from the Primary CM.

So the bug I hit was that when the WAAS was rebooted to load the new code I lost connectivity for a long time. Check the switch that it was connected to and saw the interface was up/down. Bounced the interface on the WAAS and it came back. Fortunate for me the box is in our DC. Had this been remote I'm not sure a bounce of the switch interface would have worked. FYI - I have my interfaces on an etherchannel with the load-balancing set to ip-dst (round-robin didn't work).

dstolt · ‎06-18-2008

You cannot change device mode from the CM, only from the command line. I would de-register it from the CM again, configure the device mode, set the role as standby and then re-register it. Otherwise it's database settings may not allow it to function correctly. Changing device modes is a fairly intrusive process in CMS.

Interesting interface note. I have not seen that to date, however if you can recreate it, I would have the TAC open a DDTS on it. It would be worth tracking.

Dan

Michael Anderson · ‎06-18-2008

Ok, so I followed your advice and it appears to have worked. Thank you.

On the etherchanneling issue I had I found flow-control desireable set on 'some' of the interfaces. Shut if off and it appears to be stable.