Recovering From A Merge Failure With Fabric Manager; Recovering From A Merge Failure With The Cli - Cisco 9134 - MDS Multilayer Fabric Switch Troubleshooting Manual

Merge Failure Troubleshooting
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Recovering from a Merge Failure with Fabric Manager

To recover from a merge failure using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
Select the CFS tab for the application that you are configuring and check the merge field to identify a
Step 1
switch that shows a merge failure. For example, choose Fabricxx > All VSANS > DPVM and select the
CFS tab to determine if there is a merge failure for DPVM.
Set the Config Action drop-down menu to commit and click Apply Changes to restore all peers in the
Step 2
fabric to the same configuration database.

Recovering from a Merge Failure with the CLI

To recover from a merge failure using the CLI, follow these steps:
To identify a switch that shows a merge failure, issue the show cfs merge status name application-name
Step 1
command. Example command output follows:
Switch# show cfs merge status name ntp
Physical
Failure Reason: Conflicting entries in the compared databases
Local Fabric
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Switch WWN
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20:00:00:05:30:00:6b:9e
20:00:00:0e:d7:00:3c:9e
Remote Fabric
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Switch WWN
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20:00:00:0d:ec:06:55:c0
For a more detailed description of the merge failure, issue the show cfs internal session-history name
Step 2
application name detail command. Example command output follows:
switch# show cfs internal session-history name ntp detail
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x
7-6
Merge Status:Failure [ Mon Nov 22 06:49:52 2004 ]
IP Address
10.76.100.167
10.76.100.52
IP Address
10.76.100.205
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Time Stamp
User Name
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Fri Aug 24 04:30:19 2007
admin
Fri Aug 24 04:30:19 2007
admin
Fri Aug 24 04:30:19 2007
admin
Fri Aug 24 04:30:19 2007
admin
Fri Aug 24 04:30:19 2007
admin
Fri Aug 24 04:33:07 2007
admin
Chapter 7
[Merge Master]
[Merge Master]
Source WWN
Session ID
20:00:00:0d:ec:04:99:c0
3848
20:00:00:0d:ec:04:99:c0
3848
20:00:00:0d:ec:04:99:c0
3849
20:00:00:0d:ec:04:99:c0
3848
20:00:00:0d:ec:04:99:c0
3848
20:00:00:0d:ec:04:99:c0
3868
Troubleshooting Cisco Fabric Services
Event
LOCK_REQUEST
LOCK_ACQUIRED
COMMIT
LOCK_RELEASE_REQUEST
LOCK_RELEASED
LOCK_REQUEST
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