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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Troubleshooting Guide, Release 3.x
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Chapter 4 Troubleshooting Hardware
Troubleshooting Supervisor Issues
Verifying That a Standby Supervisor Is in the Powered-Up State Using Device Manager
To verify that a standby supervisor is in the powered-up state using Device Manager, follow these steps:
Step 1 Choose Physical > Modules.... and verify that the operational status of the standby supervisor
(OperStatus) is PoweredUp.
Step 2 Right-click the standby supervisor and select Reset from the drop-down menu to restart the standby
supervisor.
Verifying That a Standby Supervisor Is in Powered-Up State Using the CLI
To verify that a standby supervisor is in the powered-up state using the CLI, follow these steps:
Step 1 Use the show module command on the active supervisor to verify that the standby supervisor in the
powered-up state.(See Example 4-13.)
Example 4-13 show module Command Output
switch# show module
Mod Ports Module-Type Model Status
--- ----- -------------------------------- ------------------ ------------
5 0 Supervisor/Fabric-1 DS-X9530-SF1-K9 active *
6 0 Supervisor/Fabric-1 powered-up
8 8 IP Storage Services Module powered-dn
Mod Sw Hw World-Wide-Name(s) (WWN)
--- ----------- ------ --------------------------------------------------
5 2.1(2) 1.1 --
Mod MAC-Address(es) Serial-Num
--- -------------------------------------- ----------
5 00-0b-be-f7-4d-1c to 00-0b-be-f7-4d-20 JAB070307XG
* this terminal session
Step 2 Use the show module internal event-history module command to determine what component may have
failed.
Step 3 Use the reload module command to restart the standby supervisor.
Troubleshooting Supervisor Modules
Note If only one supervisor module is installed, ensure that automatic synchronization is off before servicing
the other module. This prevents the switch from attempting to fail over to an unavailable module.
This section provides a workaround for a failed supervisor under certain conditions. An example
situation is used to describe the problem and the workaround.