F6748-CFC card does not get power

[Alexander.Khlemanov_2]

Hi All,

We have got Cat6509 switch with Sup720 and 12.2(17a)SX IOS. There are already two WS-F6748-DFC3B blades in this switch working absolutely fine. We have got a new WS-F6748-CFC blade and have plugged it in slot 3. In "show module" the new card is present and the "power module 3" command was accepted. But the card does not get any power at all and "show power module 3" command reports that the blade is plugged in, its administrative status is up but its power status is down (in brackets it also says "not supported"). Does anybody know if we are supposed to do something different to make the switch to provide power for the 6748-CFC blade?

Thanks.

[sbaddipu]

You have 2 DFC cards and 1 CFC card in that chassis. You can check the fabric mode settings

"show fabric". If the mode was set to only support DFC cards, your CFC card my not come up.

Also check to see if you have enough power "show power".

Satya

[Alexander.Khlemanov_2]

We'll try this, thanks a lot!

[Alexander.Khlemanov_2]

Here is the "show fabric" output. Does it look all right for the CFC blade to operate?

KBLON_CAT6K2#sh fabric

show fabric active:

Active fabric card in slot 5

Backup fabric card in slot 6

show fabric mode:

Global switching mode is Compact

dCEF mode is enforced for system to operate

Fabric module is required for system to operate

Modules are not allowed to operate in bus mode

Truncated mode is not allowed due to dCEF-only mode

Module Slot Switching Mode

1 dCEF

2 dCEF

5 dCEF

6 dCEF

show fabric congestion management:

Fabric clear-block is off.

show fabric status all:

slot channel speed module fabric

status status

1 0 20G OK OK

1 1 20G OK OK

2 0 20G OK OK

2 1 20G OK OK

5 0 20G OK OK

6 0 20G OK OK

show fabric utilization all:

slot channel speed Ingress % Egress %

1 0 20G 0 1

1 1 20G 0 0

2 0 20G 0 0

2 1 20G 0 0

5 0 20G 0 0

6 0 20G 0 0

show fabric errors all:

Module errors:

slot channel crc hbeat sync DDR sync

1 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 0 0 0 0

2 0 0 0 0 0

2 1 0 0 0 0

5 0 0 0 0 0

6 0 0 0 0 0

Fabric errors:

slot channel sync buffer timeout

1 0 0 0 0

1 1 0 0 0

2 0 0 0 0

2 1 0 0 0

5 0 0 0 0

6 0 0 0 0

KBLON_CAT6K2#

Thanks again.

[andrew.burns]

Hi,

The key problem here is the "not supported" output, although I'm not sure why that would be the case if you already have two similar modules working ok. The IOS you are using is pretty old and you might want to upgrade that in any case - it may be necessary to get the new card working.

HTH

Andrew.