Common ficon issues – Brocade FICON Administrator’s Guide (Supporting Fabric OS v7.3.0) User Manual
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Undetermined board types cannot be swapped. For example, a blade swap will fail if the blade
type cannot be identified.
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Blade swapping is not supported when swapping to a different model of blade or a different port
count. For example, you cannot swap an FC8-32 blade with an FC8-48 port blade.
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Blade swapping is not supported on application blades.
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Blade swapping is supported on the FX8-24 blade, but only the 12 Fibre Channel ports will swap.
The GbE and VE_ Ports will not be swapped.
For procedures and more information on blade swapping, refer to the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide.
Common FICON issues
Any information you need to verify that FICON has been set up correctly can be found in the
Administering FICON Fabrics or the Configuring FICON CUP chapters.
Symptom
Probable cause and recommended action
Cascading: No path - Entry Link is ".." message
This typically occurs when one or more of the required
high integrity features for cascading have not been met.
Check the following:
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Review each step in
Configuring switched point-to-
on page 37 and
on page 41 and validate that all
features are configured properly.
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Validate that CUP is online for each backbone or
switch in the fabric with the data center’s system
programmer.
Path to a device does not come online.
No connection to device.
Make sure binding or zoning does not prevent the
connection. Validate the following with the data center's
system programmer:
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Correct switch addresses (not switch IDs) are
used in link statements. Remember that the switch
address is the domain ID converted to hex and
may have an offset.
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The switch ID, used in the CHPID statements, was
defined with the correct switch address.
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All addressing (link statements) uses two-byte
addressing on the channel if two-byte addressing
has been previously used on that channel. This is
necessary even when the specified path is not
cascaded.
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