"vifmgr.lifdown.noports" alert occurs without clear reason
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.3
Issue
Below vifmgr.lifdown.noports
alert occurs and hosted port(SOURCE port) is being removed from cluster LIF without any hardware issue on the port. The SOURCE port status change to Operational status:down/Administrative status:up and LIF failover does not happen.
[?] Tue Jun 23 03:00:00 KST [nas-01: statd: kern.uptime.filer:info]: 3:00am up 254 days, 1:59 27588375019 NFS ops, 1628003065 CIFS ops, 0 HTTP ops, 0 FCP ops, 0 iSCSI ops
[?] Tue Jun 23 03:32:12 KST [nas-01: vifmgr: vifmgr.lifdown.noports:alert]: LIF nas-01_clus1 (on virtual server xxxxxxxxxx), IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, currently cannot be hosted on node nas-01, port e0a, or any of its failover targets, and is being marked as down.
[?] Tue Jun 23 03:32:13 KST [nas-01: vifmgr: vifmgr.lifBeingRemoved:notice]: LIF nas-01_clus1 (on virtual server xxxxxxxxxx), IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, is being removed from node nas-01, port e0a.