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Stale entry seen post Switch rediscovery of the Brocade switch on SANnav

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Applies to

  • Brocade Switches
  • SANnav

Issue

  • The port on the switch is a Physical port with No NPIV on it, whereas in SANnav for same port there exists an NPIV.

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  • There was an Active LPAR previously on this port , however it's current state is offline and shouldn't reflect in SANnav, but it is getting highlighted in SANnav and is grayed out .
  • From the host port page, the switch port is connected to a physical host port and NPIV host port (which is shown as a grayed out entry) .

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  • Rediscovered the switches on SANnav post switch deletion from SANnav still stale entry is being reported.
  • Fabric rediscovery tried and issue still persists.

 

  • SANnav log shows that the NPIV host port is removed from the fabric-
mediation-service - [INFO ] 2024-09-2122:21:41.947 [Async-task-pool-8] com.brocade.dcm.mediation.assetcollector.NameServerCollector- Fabric Id: 55, Collection Name: xxxxxx, Collection Type: LAZY,Diff:
* changes on com.brocade.dcm.mediation.assetcollector.container.DevicePortContainer/5e0fc2dd-c83d-4557-b7ab-46a5903c7xxx:
- 'devicePorts' collection changes :
. 'device_port/C0:50:76:09:C5:86:00:xx'removed
. 'device_port/C0:50:76:09:C5:86:00:xy' removed
. 'device_port/C0:50:76:09:C5:86:00:xz' removed
* object removed: device_port/C0:50:76:09:C5:86:00:xx
* object removed: device_port/C0:50:76:09:C5:86:00:xy
* object removed: device_port/C0:50:76:09:C5:86:00:xz

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