Blade ICE BMD00178 manual Management Module/GbESM Connectivity

BLADEOS 6.3 Application Guide

Management Module/GbESM Connectivity

Currently, the IBM management module is designed to provide one-way control of the GbESM. As a result, the GbESM may lose connectivity to the management module via the management port under the following conditions:

￿If new IP attributes are pushed from the management module to the GbESM while the IP Routing table is full, the new attributes will not be applied.

Solution: Enable “External Management over all ports,” connect to the switch using other interface and then clear the routing table. Then push the IP address from the management module. If this does not work, use Solution 2 below.

￿If you execute the /boot/reset CLI command on the GbESM or the GbESM resets itself, the management module might not push the IP attributes to the switch, and connectivity may be lost.

Solution 1: If you should experience any connectivity issues between the switch module and the management module, go to the “I/O Module Configuration” window on the management module’s Web interface. Under the “New Static IP Configuration” section, click Save to trigger the management module to push the stored IP attributes to the switch module.

Solution 2: If Solution 1 does not resolve your connectivity issue, then go to the “I/O Module Admin/Power/Restart” window on the management module’s Web interface. Restart the switch module in question.

Solution 3: If this still does not resolve the issue, enable Preserve new IP configuration on all resets setting on the management module and restart the switch module via the “I/O Module Admin/Power/Restart” window on the management module’s Web interface.

Note – As a rule, always use the management module Web interface to change the GbESM management IP attributes (IP address, mask and gateway), and then click Save to push the IP attributes to the switch module. Use of the command-line interface to change the switch module management IP attributes may result in duplicated entries for the management IP Interface in the switch route table and/or loss of connectivity via the management module.

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