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"vifmgr.lifdown.noports" alert occurs without clear reason

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  • ONTAP 9

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.

 

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