HW assist keep alive messages are missed intermittently from the partner node, the error is rectified within two minutes: Keep-Alive Status: Error: did not receive hwassist keep alive alerts from part...HW assist keep alive messages are missed intermittently from the partner node, the error is rectified within two minutes: Keep-Alive Status: Error: did not receive hwassist keep alive alerts from partner. The issue persists even after following this KB article: cf.hwassist.missedKeepAlive: HW-assisted takeover missing keep-alive messages from HA partner The Service Processor (SP) firmware is already upgraded to the latest compatible version as mentioned in the Service Processor upgrade link.
If a UDP packet is dropped, blocked, wedged, redirected, etc.. and a node doesn't receive it, then the node will just wait for 180 seconds, until the next one is sent. For the cause of cf_hwassist_mis...If a UDP packet is dropped, blocked, wedged, redirected, etc.. and a node doesn't receive it, then the node will just wait for 180 seconds, until the next one is sent. For the cause of cf_hwassist_missedKeepAlive, because hw-assist configured and transmit with IP and port(default 4444) on e0M which goes through customer network environment, nearly every instance of this type of failure, is due to network dropped packets.