MultiNICB warning of Standby Interface

[SST]

Using VCS 5.0 MP1 on Solaris 9. MutliNICB is set to UseMpathd. In my IPMP group, one of the two interfaces is marked as STANDBY. Why is the MultiNICB agent kicking out a warning that the interface is in STANDBY? It can still be used for IP failover by Mpathd.

ce0: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1500 index 2
        inet 172.16.238.229 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.16.238.255
        groupname rs_cluster_nics1
        ether 0:3:ba:b3:83:f4
oratest.ovnt.com:SunOS.ROOT 1877 # ifconfig ce1
ce1: flags=69040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY,INACTIVE> mtu 1500 index 3
        inet 172.16.238.230 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.16.238.255
        groupname rs_cluster_nics1
        ether 0:3:ba:b3:83:f5

[Veritas_Veritas]

Hi SST,

What is the configuration of your  Multinicb resource ?

Regards,

Munish

[Jeffrey_S]

Did you ever get a reply to this?

I have similar config (though on Solaris 10, VCS 5.0MP1) - ipmp, with one interface that's standby and I'm seeing errors in the MultiNICB.log every 10 seconds or so warning about the standby interface -

2008/05/15 09:29:44 VCS WARNING V-16-10001-6526 MultiNICB:prodtier-ipmptest:monitor:Interface e1000g1 is a standby(inactive) interface!

Any thoughts?

[Ros_Peasgood]

Also have a similar config (Solaris 10,  both SPARC & x86, VCS 5.0 (with MP1 for sparc)) and the same messages.  Not a big problem, just irritating that it fills up the logs.  Any feedback anyone?

[George_Lombard]

Check the VCS Bundled agent installation and configuration guide for details about configuring the MultiNICB resource and than delete the "standby" flag from your interface configuration in /etc/hostname.<NIC>