ATTO Fibre Bridge causing Link Failures on FC switch
Applies to
- Fabric MetroCluster
- ATTO FB7500
Issue
- Many link failure errors are observed on the switch ports connected to this ATTO bridge:
2021/04/13-15:17:49, [PORT-1003], 111567, FID 128, WARNING, FabSW1, Port 11 Faulted because of many Link Failures.
- The ATTO bridge itself cannot obtain FC port error counts:
-
get FCPortErrors all
; Fibre Channel Error Counts
; Port | Link Failures | Sync Loss | Signal Loss | Invalid Tx | Invalid CRC
;==========================================================================
1 Error Obtaining FC Error Counts for port 1
2 Error Obtaining FC Error Counts for port 2
-
- Health Monitor reports the ATTO bridge in an 'error' state:
ClusterA::> storage bridge show
Is Monitor
Bridge Symbolic Name Vendor Model Bridge WWN Monitored Status
---------- ------------- ------- --------- ---------------- --------- -------
ATTO_0.0.0.16
FB-16
Atto FibreBridge 7500N
2000001086603824 true ok
ATTO_0.0.0.17
FB-17 Atto FibreBridge 7500N
20000010866037e8 true error
ATTO_0.0.0.18
FB-18 Atto FibreBridge 7500N
2000001086609e0e true ok
ATTO_0.0.0.19
FB-19 Atto FibreBridge 7500N
2000001086609c06 true ok
- Sysconfig -a does not report the ATTO bridge under any of the adapters.