This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Wicked Switch of the West? Fibre Switch that is

Friday, September 25, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Wicked Switch of the West? Fibre Switch that is

Thanks for the info. I did have to wait patiently while the switch rebooted on the power cycle and I thought I'd screwed the pooch at first. Today the switch is still working from yesterday. The engineer logged in and said the switch was reading "warm" and he thought that might be a factor in its' dying yesterday. During my troubleshooting I did redirect an air conditioning baffle to get more air near the switches. Perhaps that has helped. Also on my last power cycle I let the unit sit unplugged a couple extra minutes. Sometimes unplugging for a while drains internal power buses and that seems to help on some equipment in my experience. Maybe unplugging for 3 or 4 minutes might have given it enough time to cool the problem area if that is in fact the problem. So far today it's working so only time will tell.

---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <domqsilverio@...> wrote :

The 5600 has a JAVA based web GUI you can access. However, its JAVA platform is very old and newer browsers and JAVA version cannot execute it. The Unity server itself should be able to access since its OS and browser is also very old. If he does get in, it does keep a wealth of information to diagnose.

Avid does include a configuration file with every Unity full installer. The zoning portion is the most important as it designates certain ports for all Unity chassis.

FYI - the boot process for these switches is a long process. It includes no or minimal light activity. Don't panic. Once it is done the connection lights will normalize. Any client must reboot after.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:51 PM, John Moore bigfish@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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@...