Persistent Switch health alert after removing or replacing switch
Applies to
- ONTAP
- Cluster Switch
Issue
- Switch health alert is present for a cluster switch after being disconnected
Cluster::> system health alert show
Node: Cluster-02
Example:
Alert ID: SwitchSSHAccess_Alert
Alert ID: SwitchInfoUpdateFailure_Alert
Resource: Old-Cluster-SW2 (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)
- Health alerts for disconnected switch
::*> system health subsystem show
Subsystem Health
----------------- ------------------
SAS-connect ok
Environment ok
Memory ok
Service-Processor ok
Switch-Health degraded
CIFS-NDO ok
Motherboard ok
IO ok
MetroCluster ok
MetroCluster_Node ok
FHM-Switch ok
FHM-Bridge ok
SAS-connect_Cluster ok
::*> system health subsystem show -subsystem switch-Health
Subsystem: Switch-Health
Health: degraded
Initialization State: initialized
Number of Outstanding Alerts: 4
Number of Suppressed Alerts: 0
Node: switch1
Subsystem Refresh Interval: 5m
- The switch is no longer seen after being disconnected:
ONTAP 9.8 and above
::>system switch ethernet show
Error: There are no entries matching your query.
ONTAP 9.7 and below
::>system cluster-switch show
Error: There are no entries matching your query.