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Cisco switch port disabled which is connected to ONTAP storage port

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Applies to

  • ONTAP SAN
  • Cisco MDS

Issue

  • Cisco switch port disabled due to errors recorded at switch:
fc1/31 is down (Error disabled - bit error rate too high)
Hardware is Fibre Channel, SFP is short wave laser w/o OFC (SN)
Port WWN is 20:XX:00:de:fb:05:6f:XX
Admin port mode is F, trunk mode is on
snmp link state traps are enabled
Port vsan is 901
Receive data field Size is 2112
Beacon is turned off
5 minutes input rate 0 bits/sec,0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec
5 minutes output rate 0 bits/sec,0 bytes/sec, 0 frames/sec
2485337151293 frames input,4844638611853560 bytes
0 discards,122 errors
61 invalid CRC/FCS,0 unknown class
0 too long,0 too short
593962127148 frames output,991542727939512 bytes
1 discards,0 errors
7 input OLS,7 LRR,15 NOS,0 loop inits
17 output OLS,1 LRR, 19 NOS, 0 loop inits

switch1 %PORT-5-IF_DOWN_LINK_FAILURE: %$VSAN XXX%$ Interface fc1/31 is down (Link failure loss of signal)
switch1 %PORT-5-IF_UP: %$VSAN XX%$ Interface fc1/31 is up in mode F
switch1 %PORT-5-IF_DOWN_BIT_ERR_RT_THRES_EXCEEDED: %$VSAN XXX%$ Interface fc1/31 is down (Error disabled - bit error rate too high)
  • Storage may see out of order frames:

STIO Adapter:0e IO WQE failure, Handle 0x2, Type 8, S_ID: 11D28, VPI: 3, OX_ID: 3F56, Status 0x3 Ext_Status 0x1d

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