Solved: WS-X6582-2PA question

paul amaral · ‎02-10-2012

1st i would apriciate any thoughts on this.

We have a couple of 2 port adapter Enhanced FlexWANs (WS-X6582-2PA) and i have a few questions on these.

1) Does anyone know if you can assign more I/O memory on each flexwan PA, i looked for a command, while attached to the PA slot and couldn’t find it. Out of 256 Megs of ram it assigns about 68 megs to I/O and on a few PA we only have 30+ megs free not sure if this will become a concern.

FlexWAN-ENH-13/0#sh mem free

Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b) Largest(b)

Processor 41291EC0 181854528 113225864 68628664 66629472 55454808

I/O C000000 67108352 64034248 3074104 3058576 3066008

2) Does fabric syncing only happen on slot 0 of the flexwan? on slot 1 i never see this on the logs.

SLOT 5/0: 00:00:19: %SSA-5-FABRICSYNC_DONE: Fabric sync on Primary channel done.

SLOT 5/0: 00:00:19: %SCP-5-ENABLE: Module enabled

SLOT 5/0: 00:00:25: %SCP-5-ONLINE: Module online

3) On one of the flexwan when i reboot it i see the follow warning message about upgrading soon, but i have no idea what this means, any insight on this would be great. I'm also seeing ECC errors, does this mean the ram is going bad? i recently had all T1s on this card go down at the same time and the only thing that brought them up was a reboot of the flexwan.

FlexWAN-ENH-13/0#sh log

00:00:07: Initializing rate limit function ===!!!

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:09: %CWSLC-6-PA_DET: port adapter detected

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:10: %CWSLC-6-PA_SIGVALID: port adapter signal is valid

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:12: %CWSLC-6-PA_SIGVALID: port adapter signal is valid

00:00:17: PM PLD rev 0x00000071 (valid 0x00000078-00000078) Downrev!

00:00:17: ***************************************************

00:00:17: !!! WARNING: Hardware components are down level !!!

00:00:17: !!! Upgrade soon !!!

00:00:17: !!! I mean it! !!!

00:00:17: ***************************************************

00:00:17: Currently running ROMMON from ROM F2

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:17: %SYS-5-RESTART: System restarted --

Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

IOS (tm) cwlc Software (cwpa2-DW-M), Version 12.2(18)SXF14, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Compiled Thu 08-May-08 00:57 by kellythw

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:17: %HYPERION-5-BUS_MODE_CHANGE: The System Switching Bus Mode chang

ed to Compact mode

00:00:17:

00:00:18: Fabric Information

00:00:18: ==================

00:00:18: Speed = 8G

00:00:18: Channel mode = Mode2-SSA/SSO

00:00:18: Channel = Primary

00:00:18: Serial Primary Channel SYNC SUCCESS!

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:18: %SSA-5-FABRICSYNC_DONE: Fabric sync on Primary channel done.

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:18: %SCP-5-ENABLE: Module enabled

SLOT 13/0: 00:00:20: %SCP-5-ONLINE: Module online

SLOT 13/0: Feb 3 17:28:26: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console

Feb 7 09:18:27: Single bit ECC error (0)

Data 0-8 : 0x207B 0x0000 0xFF00 0xFFFF 0xFFFF 0xFFFF 0xFFFF 0xFFFF 0x0280

Data 9-17: 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000

Address : 0x3CCC 0x0001

Feb 9 17:46:02: Single bit ECC error (0)

Data 0-8 : 0xBFF4 0xFFEF 0xFFFF 0xFFFF 0x3DFF 0x8C08 0xB3B3 0xD799 0x7480

Data 9-17: 0xBF49 0x00F0 0x0000 0x0000 0xB900 0x00C0 0x0000 0x0000 0xA700

Address : 0x25E1 0x0001

thanks for you time, Paul

rsimoni · ‎02-10-2012

Hi Paul,

1) no you cannot

2) It is normal. Altough the flexwan2 has 2 Port Adapters it has just one connection to the fabric (at 8Gbps only by the way), so only one synch is technically possible. Developers decided to go for x/0 notation where the 0 does not represent the PA but the module itself.

3) I see the message popping up 2 times (at least). It does not seem good as this indicates a parity error. If you see it often we might consider it a Hard parity error indicating memory problem. So yes there is a memory or memory controller issue.

Riccardo

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rsimoni · ‎02-10-2012

This warning message does not mean anything. It does not indicate any error condition and can be safely ignored.

It is a debug message that was not meant to show, but somehow does.

Internal bug "CSCec67502 - CWPA2: Remove debug msgs during bootup" documents that (but you cannot see that).

No actual upgrade is required.

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rsimoni · ‎02-10-2012

Hi Paul,

1) no you cannot

2) It is normal. Altough the flexwan2 has 2 Port Adapters it has just one connection to the fabric (at 8Gbps only by the way), so only one synch is technically possible. Developers decided to go for x/0 notation where the 0 does not represent the PA but the module itself.

3) I see the message popping up 2 times (at least). It does not seem good as this indicates a parity error. If you see it often we might consider it a Hard parity error indicating memory problem. So yes there is a memory or memory controller issue.

Riccardo

paul amaral · ‎02-10-2012

Ricardo, thanks very much for your reply.

Do you or anyone else reading this know what the warning message is all about?

"

00:00:17: !!! WARNING: Hardware components are down level !!!

00:00:17: !!! Upgrade soon !!!

00:00:17: !!! I mean it! !!!"

I have several enhanced flexwans and only see this on one.

Also does the 30 meg free for I/O memory seem low for a PA that has all 28 channels in use? If this was too low and causing issue would I be able to see it on the flexwan logs?

Paul

Leo Laohoo · ‎02-10-2012

00:00:17: !!! WARNING: Hardware components are down level !!!

00:00:17: !!! Upgrade soon !!!

00:00:17: !!! I mean it! !!!"

Could be a "send" message by someone warning everyone to get off.

rsimoni · ‎02-10-2012

This warning message does not mean anything. It does not indicate any error condition and can be safely ignored.

It is a debug message that was not meant to show, but somehow does.

Internal bug "CSCec67502 - CWPA2: Remove debug msgs during bootup" documents that (but you cannot see that).

No actual upgrade is required.

paul amaral · ‎02-13-2012

Thank you Riccardo for letting me know.

paul