System Messages and Recovery Procedures for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module [Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch for VMware vSphere]

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System Messages and Recovery Procedures for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module

PVLAN VEM

PVLAN-VEM

SVS QoS Messages

ipqos-vem

QoS Agent

QOS Failure

SYSLOGDOC_NO_DDTS Messages

NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_INACTIVE

SF Port

SFS Switch Data

VSS Net

System Messages and Recovery Procedures for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module

This chapter includes the system messages for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM). The messages are listed in alphabetical order by the system facility that produces them. Within each system facility section, messages are listed alphabetically by mnemonics. Each system message is followed by an explanation and a recommended action.

PVLAN VEM

This section contains the PVLAN VEM messages.

PVLAN-VEM
Error Message    3, PVLAN-VEM, Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry -- 
%02x%02x:%02x%02x:%02x%02x, please shut/no shut the Veth.
Explanation Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry.
Recommended Action When user sees this warning message, user should do a shut/no shutî on the veth that has the indicated MAC address.
Error Message    4, PVLAN-VEM, %s Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry.
Explanation Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry.
Recommended Action When user sees this warning message, user should do a ìshut/no shutî on the veth that has the indicated MAC address.

SVS QoS Messages

This section contains the SVS QOS messages.

ipqos-vem
Error Message    1, ipqos-vem, function %s Bandwidth change did not take effect for intf 
%s, Class ID %d. Please revert and reapply the bandwidth/queue-limit change, 
__FUNCTION__,(port_entry)?port_entry->ifname:unknown,sf_qos_q_misconfig_l 
classid.
Explanation When VEM is in offline mode, if the bandwidth or queue-limit parameters are modified, they will not take effect.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    3, ipqos-vem, Cannot configure service policy with total bw %llu, bw.
Explanation ìCannot apply the queueing policy as the total bandwidth exceeds 100%. Validate the service-policy configuration to ensure bandwidth percentage for all the class-maps within the policy do not exceed 100.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    3, ipqos-vem, function %s. Couldn't find classmap %d. Explanation: 
Could not find the corresponding class map node in the local datapath tables.
Explanation The system has detected an error.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    3, ipqos-vem, function %s Couldn't allocate† %d filter 
countersExplanation: ìCould not allocate enough memory to save this data 
structure. Possibly system running out of memory.
Explanation The system has detected an error.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    3, ipqos-vem, function %s Pinst doesn't have counters.
Explanation Could not find the stats counters for the specific pinst.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    3, ipqos-vem, function %s Policy not found for table ref %d.
Explanation Could not find the corresponding policy in the datapath tables for the stats request.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.

QoS Agent
Error Message    QoS Agent: Add policy inst failed Trying to apply nonexisting id %u 
[%d], (unsigned)policy_id, session->tbl_id.
Explanation ìFailed to get the local policy id for this session for the corresponding global policy id. This session will fail.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    QoS Agent : add pinst - Out of Memory.
Explanation Failed to allocateate memory for the specific node. The system possibly running out of free memoryî.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    QoS Agent: Configured QoS stats exceed limit that can be retrieved 
(%d), required_memory.
Explanation Memory required for the stats request exceeds the max limit.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    QoS Agent: Failed to find an entry for global to local policy id.
Explanation Cannot create this service policy as it exceeds the maximum limit for the number of policies per vem.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    Qos Agent: Failed to get a free entry for global to local class id. 
Hit the max limit on number of classmaps/policers per VEM.
Explanation Cannot create this service policy as it exceeds the maximum limit for the number of nodes per vem.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    QoS Agent: Failed to get a free entry for global to local policy id. 
Hit the max limit on number of policies per VEM.
Explanation Cannot create this service policy as it execceds the maximum limit for the number of policies supported per vem.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    QoS Agent: Only one queuing policy instance (per VEM) is 
supportedîExplanation: Cannot configure more than one queueing policy on the VEM.î
Explanation The system has detected an error.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.

QOS Failure
Error Message    QOS Failure: Queuing policy can only be installed on a ESX/ESXi 4.1.0 
host.
Explanation A queueing policy can only be applied to a ESX/ESXi 4.1.0 host. Error is due to policy being applied on a 4.1.0 ESX/ESXi host..
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.

SYSLOGDOC_NO_DDTS Messages

NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_INACTIVE
Error Message    1, NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_INACTIVE, Interface %s mapped to sg-id 
%d of port-channel %s has been in-activated as the ingress traffic counters were 
unchanged during current split-network mode.
Explanation The interface identified in the syslog have failed to receive any traffic for the past threshold time. The threshold time is based on the configured tracking threshold and tracking frequency. This combined with ëNW_STATE_TRACKING_SPLIT_DETECTEDí indicates a problem related to configuration or hardware/driver failure along the network path.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    1, NW_STATE_TRACKING_SPLIT_DETECTED, Split-network detected in 
port-channel %s using network-state tracking mechanism on vlan %d.
Explanation The tracking packets sent through the interfaces belonging to the vPC-HM port channel on tracking vlan are not being received back from the network indicating a split in the network. This could possibly be a configuration problem or a hardware problem somewhere along the network path.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    5, NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_ACTIVE, Interface %s mapped to sg-id %d 
of port-channel %s has been activated again.
Explanation The interface mentioned in the syslog are properly forwarding the traffic.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    5, NW_STATE_TRACKING_RECOVERY_DETECTED, Split-network recovery 
detected in port-channel %s using network-state tracking mechanism on vlan %d.
Explanation The tracking packets are looping back to the port channel from the network indicating the recovery in the earlier detected network split.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.

SF Port
Error Message    1, sfport, Removing Uplink Port %s (ltl %d), when vmknic %s (ltl %d) 
is pinned to this port for iSCSI Multipathing.
Explanation This syslog says that an uplink, to which iSCSI vmknic is pinned, is being removed. iSCSI will continue to work as long as there is another uplink carrying the same VLAN.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.

SFS Switch Data
Error Message    1, sfswitchdata, L3 Control and System VLAN configurations not applied 
on vethernet port. VMware Port[%d] DVPortGroup[%s]. L3 Control can be applied only 
on VMKernel port.
Explanation This is a warning that L3 control portgroup is being applied on a non-vmknic port. This configuration is igored.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.

VSS Net
Error Message    1, vssnet, %s: connect - Cannot add uplink %d. Max number of 
uplinks(%d) exceeded.
Explanation Max #uplinks (32) have been exceeded.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    1, vssnet, %s: connect - Cannot add virtual port %d. Max number of 
veths(%d) exceeded.
Explanation ìMax #vethis (216) have been exceeded.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    1, vssnet, %s: Failed setting MTU for VMW port wiht portID %d.\n.
Explanation Failed setting MTU on uplink port.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    5, vssnet, L3Control/ERSPAN: module %d vmknic created with ip address: 
%s
Explanation A new L3Control/ERSPAN capable VMKNic is detected on the specified module, with the specified IP address.Recommended Action: No action.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    5, vssnet, L3Control/ERSPAN: module %d vmknic ip address modified %s
Explanation IP address of an L3Control/ERSPAN capable VMKNic is changed on the specified moduleRecommended Action: No action.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
Error Message    5, vssnet, L3Control/ERSPAN: module %d vmknic removed
Explanation A L3Control/ERSPAN capable VMKNic is removed from the specified module.Recommended Action: If there is an L3Control or ERSPAN configuration on this module, a new VMKNic must be created for proper functioning.
Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.


	System Messages and Recovery Procedures for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module
	Download this chapter System Messages and Recovery Procedures for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module Feedback Table Of Contents System Messages and Recovery Procedures for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module PVLAN VEM PVLAN-VEM SVS QoS Messages ipqos-vem QoS Agent QOS Failure SYSLOGDOC_NO_DDTS Messages NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_INACTIVE SF Port SFS Switch Data VSS Net System Messages and Recovery Procedures for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module This chapter includes the system messages for the Cisco Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM). The messages are listed in alphabetical order by the system facility that produces them. Within each system facility section, messages are listed alphabetically by mnemonics. Each system message is followed by an explanation and a recommended action. PVLAN VEM This section contains the PVLAN VEM messages. PVLAN-VEM Error Message 3, PVLAN-VEM, Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry -- %02x%02x:%02x%02x:%02x%02x, please shut/no shut the Veth. Explanation Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry. Recommended Action When user sees this warning message, user should do a shut/no shutî on the veth that has the indicated MAC address. Error Message 4, PVLAN-VEM, %s Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry. Explanation Non-Static PVLAN MAC entry. Recommended Action When user sees this warning message, user should do a ìshut/no shutî on the veth that has the indicated MAC address. SVS QoS Messages This section contains the SVS QOS messages. ipqos-vem Error Message 1, ipqos-vem, function %s Bandwidth change did not take effect for intf %s, Class ID %d. Please revert and reapply the bandwidth/queue-limit change, __FUNCTION__,(port_entry)?port_entry->ifname:unknown,sf_qos_q_misconfig_l classid. Explanation When VEM is in offline mode, if the bandwidth or queue-limit parameters are modified, they will not take effect. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 3, ipqos-vem, Cannot configure service policy with total bw %llu, bw. Explanation ìCannot apply the queueing policy as the total bandwidth exceeds 100%. Validate the service-policy configuration to ensure bandwidth percentage for all the class-maps within the policy do not exceed 100. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 3, ipqos-vem, function %s. Couldn't find classmap %d. Explanation: Could not find the corresponding class map node in the local datapath tables. Explanation The system has detected an error. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 3, ipqos-vem, function %s Couldn't allocate† %d filter countersExplanation: ìCould not allocate enough memory to save this data structure. Possibly system running out of memory. Explanation The system has detected an error. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 3, ipqos-vem, function %s Pinst doesn't have counters. Explanation Could not find the stats counters for the specific pinst. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 3, ipqos-vem, function %s Policy not found for table ref %d. Explanation Could not find the corresponding policy in the datapath tables for the stats request. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. QoS Agent Error Message QoS Agent: Add policy inst failed Trying to apply nonexisting id %u [%d], (unsigned)policy_id, session->tbl_id. Explanation ìFailed to get the local policy id for this session for the corresponding global policy id. This session will fail. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message QoS Agent : add pinst - Out of Memory. Explanation Failed to allocateate memory for the specific node. The system possibly running out of free memoryî. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message QoS Agent: Configured QoS stats exceed limit that can be retrieved (%d), required_memory. Explanation Memory required for the stats request exceeds the max limit. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message QoS Agent: Failed to find an entry for global to local policy id. Explanation Cannot create this service policy as it exceeds the maximum limit for the number of policies per vem. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message Qos Agent: Failed to get a free entry for global to local class id. Hit the max limit on number of classmaps/policers per VEM. Explanation Cannot create this service policy as it exceeds the maximum limit for the number of nodes per vem. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message QoS Agent: Failed to get a free entry for global to local policy id. Hit the max limit on number of policies per VEM. Explanation Cannot create this service policy as it execceds the maximum limit for the number of policies supported per vem. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message QoS Agent: Only one queuing policy instance (per VEM) is supportedîExplanation: Cannot configure more than one queueing policy on the VEM.î Explanation The system has detected an error. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. QOS Failure Error Message QOS Failure: Queuing policy can only be installed on a ESX/ESXi 4.1.0 host. Explanation A queueing policy can only be applied to a ESX/ESXi 4.1.0 host. Error is due to policy being applied on a 4.1.0 ESX/ESXi host.. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. SYSLOGDOC_NO_DDTS Messages NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_INACTIVE Error Message 1, NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_INACTIVE, Interface %s mapped to sg-id %d of port-channel %s has been in-activated as the ingress traffic counters were unchanged during current split-network mode. Explanation The interface identified in the syslog have failed to receive any traffic for the past threshold time. The threshold time is based on the configured tracking threshold and tracking frequency. This combined with ëNW_STATE_TRACKING_SPLIT_DETECTEDí indicates a problem related to configuration or hardware/driver failure along the network path. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 1, NW_STATE_TRACKING_SPLIT_DETECTED, Split-network detected in port-channel %s using network-state tracking mechanism on vlan %d. Explanation The tracking packets sent through the interfaces belonging to the vPC-HM port channel on tracking vlan are not being received back from the network indicating a split in the network. This could possibly be a configuration problem or a hardware problem somewhere along the network path. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 5, NW_STATE_TRACKING_INTERFACE_ACTIVE, Interface %s mapped to sg-id %d of port-channel %s has been activated again. Explanation The interface mentioned in the syslog are properly forwarding the traffic. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 5, NW_STATE_TRACKING_RECOVERY_DETECTED, Split-network recovery detected in port-channel %s using network-state tracking mechanism on vlan %d. Explanation The tracking packets are looping back to the port channel from the network indicating the recovery in the earlier detected network split. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. SF Port Error Message 1, sfport, Removing Uplink Port %s (ltl %d), when vmknic %s (ltl %d) is pinned to this port for iSCSI Multipathing. Explanation This syslog says that an uplink, to which iSCSI vmknic is pinned, is being removed. iSCSI will continue to work as long as there is another uplink carrying the same VLAN. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. SFS Switch Data Error Message 1, sfswitchdata, L3 Control and System VLAN configurations not applied on vethernet port. VMware Port[%d] DVPortGroup[%s]. L3 Control can be applied only on VMKernel port. Explanation This is a warning that L3 control portgroup is being applied on a non-vmknic port. This configuration is igored. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. VSS Net Error Message 1, vssnet, %s: connect - Cannot add uplink %d. Max number of uplinks(%d) exceeded. Explanation Max #uplinks (32) have been exceeded. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 1, vssnet, %s: connect - Cannot add virtual port %d. Max number of veths(%d) exceeded. Explanation ìMax #vethis (216) have been exceeded. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 1, vssnet, %s: Failed setting MTU for VMW port wiht portID %d.\n. Explanation Failed setting MTU on uplink port. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 5, vssnet, L3Control/ERSPAN: module %d vmknic created with ip address: %s Explanation A new L3Control/ERSPAN capable VMKNic is detected on the specified module, with the specified IP address.Recommended Action: No action. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 5, vssnet, L3Control/ERSPAN: module %d vmknic ip address modified %s Explanation IP address of an L3Control/ERSPAN capable VMKNic is changed on the specified moduleRecommended Action: No action. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac. Error Message 5, vssnet, L3Control/ERSPAN: module %d vmknic removed Explanation A L3Control/ERSPAN capable VMKNic is removed from the specified module.Recommended Action: If there is an L3Control or ERSPAN configuration on this module, a new VMKNic must be created for proper functioning. Recommended Action Contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) through the Cisco Support web site http://www.cisco.com/tac.
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