How to prevent Unified Manager from reporting "Port Status Down" event for unconnected/unused network ports

Applies to

• Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM)
• OnCommand Unified Manager (OCUM)

Description

• When Active IQ Unified Manager detects a network port of which link status is down, it reports Port Status Down event for the node like the following example

• Unified Manager will not report Port Status Down events for ports when the link status is down
• This article explains how to prevent Unified Manager from reporting Port Status Down event for network ports that are intentionally disconnected/unused by disabling the port in ONTAP

Procedure 

1. Enable advanced mode on ONTAP CLI

set advanced

2. Confirm the current "up-admin" property for the port

network port show -node -port -fields link, up-admin

Example: Cluster::*> network port show -node Node-01 -port e0b -fields link, up-admin

node port link up-admin

-------- ---- ---- --------

Node-01 e0b down true

3. Change "up-admin" to false for the port.

network port modify -node -port -up-admin false

4. Confirm the port is administratively disabled.

network port show -node -port -fields link, up-admin

5. To use/connect the port in the future, it can be re-enabled by setting -up-admin true

network port modify -node -port -up-admin true

Additional Information

• FAQ: Active IQ Unified Manager Event Management
• Ontap System manager shows unused port as a red color icon