If there are multiple fiber connections to the switch, it will need to be zoned so that the two connections don't see each other.
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Subject: [Avid-L2] Wicked Switch of the West? Fibre Switch that is
So our SanMP runs through a Qlogic SanBox 5600 Fibre Switch, just like our medianet unitys do. Today one of the SNS EVO JBOD chassis was beeping so the AEs reset it. Perhaps unrelated but a while later I got bounced off SanMP. It turns out the Fibre switch went stupid and I did a power cycle and it woke up and all was well for about 40 minutes. Now I've spent the afternoon power cycling the Fibre Switch. When it dies I find all the left green connection lights by the fibre connections blinking in unison. After a power cycle there is a couple minutes or so rebooting which has lights going on and off during the process. In the end the lights over the fibre connections left lights come on! down the line and the right activity lights start to twinkle. All is good for a while then poof.
Our tech had us hook up an ethernet cable to our internal network. I assume he can remotely log into the switch and he said he was going to see if there was any indication of a power supply issue. How does the ethernet connection to the switch work? Is it something you can log into it in a browser using the right ip address, like I do with my Tektronix scope and other devices? What wealth of information can be had there? I would assume things related to the switch configuration but does the unit have some sort of cache of error logs etc... to help trouble shoot?
Now I've had the switch not fail for almost an hour. Does that mean this is an intermittent issue or is it near the end of the day when others are not pulling as much power. I've been the only one in our facility accessing the SanMP fibre network today but I wouldn't rule out power spikes that may be coming from other equipment when more people are working.
If we do end up shot gunning the Fibre Switch do they usually come with a usable standard configuration so we could plug and play so to speak? I've never had to configure ethernet switches but perhaps those are a very different beast. Do all Fibre Switches require user intervention before they can be used out of the box?
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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