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Brocade switch port offline with Persistently Disabled state (Area has been acquired)

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Applies to

  • All Brocade hardware platforms
  • All Brocade fabric operating system (FOS) platforms

Issue

  • Portshow of the affected port reports Persistently Disabled status:

portshow 145
portDisableReason: Area has been acquired
portCFlags: 0x0
portFlags: 0x4021     PRESENT U_PORT DISABLED LED
LocalSwcFlags: 0x0
portType:  26.0
portState: Persistently Disabled
Protocol: FC
portPhys:  5    No_Sync      portScn:   2    Offline   
port generation number:    262
state transition count:    29  

  • On a Brocade switch, the status may look like ths in the switchshow output:

Index Slot Port Address Media  Speed        State    Proto
============================================================
145    7   17   029100   id    N32          No_Sync     FC  Disabled (Persistent)  (Area has been acquired)

  • sfpshow reports Tx stat as -inf

=============
Slot  7/Port 17:
=============
Identifier:  3    SFP
Connector:   7    LC
Transceiver: 6804406000000000 8,16,32_Gbps M5 sw Inter,Short_dist
Encoding:    6    64B66B 
[...]
Vendor Name: BROCADE         
Vendor OUI:  00:05:1e
Vendor PN:   57-1000333-01   
[...]
Temperature: 45      Centigrade 
Current:     0.000   mAmps 
Voltage:     3296.4  mVolts 
RX Power:    -3.4    dBm (454.0uW) 
TX Power:    -inf    dBm (0.0   uW)

  • Under errdump log, we could see below errors:

2022/09/26-19:00:53, [FABR-1034], 134131, SLOT 2 | FID 128, INFO, pun-brcx6-02, Area 145 have been acquired by port 7/16. Persistently disabling port 7/17.
2022/09/26-19:16:01, [FABR-1034], 134153, SLOT 2 | FID 128, INFO, pun-brcx6-02, Area 145 have been acquired by port 7/16. Persistently disabling port 7/17.
2022/09/26-19:43:54, [FABR-1034], 134155, SLOT 2 | FID 128, INFO, pun-brcx6-02, Area 145 have been acquired by port 7/16. Persistently disabling port 7/17.
2022/09/26-19:44:56, [FABR-1034], 134157, SLOT 2 | FID 128, INFO, pun-brcx6-02, Area 145 have been acquired by port 7/16. Persistently disabling port 7/17.
2022/09/26-19:54:26, [FABR-1034], 134159, SLOT 2 | FID 128, INFO, pun-brcx6-02, Area 145 have been acquired by port 7/16. Persistently disabling port 7/17.

 

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