Software And Firmware Issues; Xcp Issues And Workarounds - Sun Microsystems SPARC Enterprise M8000 Product Notes

Software and Firmware Issues

This section describes specific software and firmware issues and workarounds. To
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XCP Issues and Workarounds

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XCP Issues and Workarounds (1 of 2)
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ID Description
6565422 The Latest communication field in
showarchiving is not updated regularly.
6575425 Most XSCF commands should display
"Permission denied" when they are executed
on the Standby XSCF. Instead, some
commands report various errors.
6588650 On occasion, the system is unable to DR after
an XSCF failover to or from backup XSCF.
6624646 Sun Connection Update Manager GUI might
fail to register correctly.
6665174 Following a dynamic reconfiguration
operation using the XSCF commands
deleteboard(8) and addboard(8), you might
see I/O channel degradation, resulting in error
messages and entries in the corresponding
ereport.
If you run into this problem, the fmdump(8)
command will show a report:
ereport.chassis.SPARCEnterprise.asi
c.ioc.ch.leaf.fe
6674742 When the system is stressed with many faults,
the fmd process on the service processor might
hang. Once this happens, fma commands on
the service processor can fail or hang.
lists XCP issues and possible workarounds.
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 Servers Product Notes
Workaround
Disabling and re-enabling archiving refreshes
the Latest communication field in
showarchiving output.
Only the following commands can be executed
on the Standby XSCF: snapshot, switchscf
Do not attempt to run any other command on
the Standby XSCF.
There is no workaround.
Use the command-line interface (CLI) if you run
into any GUI registration issues.
An authorized service represenative can
perform further diagnosis or clear the errors.
Reboot the service processor using the XSCF
command rebootxscf.
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