GW command showgwports: shows "Line 69, In ? Iport(i, Port) ValueError: Failed To Get Iport Attr"

Asset ID:	1-72-1494017.1
Update Date:	2015-02-04
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Solution 1494017.1 : GW command showgwports: shows "Line 69, In ? Iport(i, Port) ValueError: Failed To Get Iport Attr"

Applies to:

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2 Hardware - Version All Versions and later
Linux x86-64
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

When running the command showgwports in one of the NM2-GW switches, resulting following error:

Ideally, the epxected the output should be:

[root@elorl01gw01-adm ~]# showgwports

INTERNAL PORTS:
---------------

Device   Port Portname Peer Port PortGUID                LID    IBState GWState
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bridge-0 1   Bridge-0-1    4       0x002128c376fac001 0x000b Active   Up
Bridge-0 2   Bridge-0-2    3      0x002128c376fac002 0x002f   Active   Up
Bridge-1 1   Bridge-1-1   2       0x002128c376fac041 0x0035 Active   Up
Bridge-1 2   Bridge-1-2    1       0x002128c376fac042 0x0055 Active   Up

CONNECTOR 0A-ETH:
-----------------

Port               Bridge      Adminstate   Link   State      Linkmode    Speed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0A-ETH-1 Bridge-0-2 Enabled    Up       Up         XFI            10Gb/s
0A-ETH-2 Bridge-0-2 Enabled   Up       Up         XFI            10Gb/s
0A-ETH-3 Bridge-0-1 Enabled    Down   Reset       XFI            10Gb/s
0A-ETH-4 Bridge-0-1 Enabled    Down   Reset       XFI            10Gb/s

CONNECTOR 1A-ETH:
-----------------

Port               Bridge      Adminstate   Link   State      Linkmode    Speed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1A-ETH-1   Bridge-1-2 Enabled    Down Reset       XFI            10Gb/s
1A-ETH-2   Bridge-1-2 Enabled    Down Reset       XFI            10Gb/s
1A-ETH-3   Bridge-1-1 Enabled    Down Reset       XFI            10Gb/s
1A-ETH-4 Bridge-1-1 Enabled    Down Reset       XFI            10Gb/s

Changes

The issue was faced on InfiniBand Gateway Switch (NM2-GW), firmware version 2.0.4-1

[root@elorl01gw01-adm ~]# version
SUN DCS gw version: 2.0.4-1
Build time: Oct 17 2011 10:04:07
FPGA version: 0x34
SP board info:
Manufacturing Date: 2010.12.31
Serial Number: "XXXXXXXXX"
Hardware Revision: 0x0006
Firmware Revision: 0x0000
BIOS version: SUN0R100
BIOS date: 06/22/2010

Cause

This is a known issue and resolved through the (Sun CR 7167619) Bug 15790691

Solution

The fix went into the version 2.1.2. Till the fix is available, a feasible solution is to restart the switch in question.

References

<BUG:15790691> - SUNBT7167619-2.1.2 SHOWGWPORTS FAILS WITH "BXM_EOIB_GET_VLAN_TO_PKEY_MAP() CALL

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