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False positive alerts about wrongly cabled cluster network switches

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Applies to

  • All FAS and AFF platforms
  • ONTAP 9
  • Cluster Network Switches
  • ActiveIQ Wellness

Issue

  • The following alert is raised in ActiveIQ Wellness

"The two IP addresses used by the node's RDB Sitelist are connected to same cluster switch, compromising cluster resiliency if the cluster switch fails."

  • Physical inspection of the cluster confirms cabling is following best practices
  • One cluster port does not report a remote device ID

cluster::> network port show -fields remote-device-id
node          port remote-device-id
------------- ---- ----------------
node-01          e0M  -
node-01          e0a  switch1
node-01          e0b  swtich2
node-01          e0c  -
node-01          e0d  -
node-02          e0M  -
node-02          e0a  -
node-02          e0b  switch2
node-02          e0c  -
node-02          e0d  -
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