3750 and Provisioned mode

[JMoore64]

Hello all, i've been doing some research on issue i had today, but couldn't find the answer so i thought i would run by everyone to see if anyone has seen this or heard of it.

I had a 3750 switch in a stack of 3. All three switches were members of the stack and have been running with no problems for a long time. Then for some reason switch # 3 in the stack went into provision mode(I guess thats what you would call it. If you did a Show Switch: under priorty it would say Provision). I had to cycle the switch for it to be a member of the stack again. Once # 3 was up # 2 in the stack went into provision mode. So then i just cycled the whole stack. Everything was working after that. This also happened with another switch in another stack few hours later. Does anybody know what would kick a switch into provision without touching it?

Thanks
James

 

[vipergg]

It shouldn't do that unless it took a power hit and reloaded itself , might want to keep in the back of your mind any potential power problems . This page is pretty good at explaing the whole stack scenario.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products...s_configuration_example09186a00807811ad.shtml

 

[JMoore64]

Thanks for the reply Vipergg, I don't think they took a power hit. All of the switches in questions are plugged into there own UPS. Any other ideas?


Thanks

James

 

[BoogerMan1]

Hey JMoore64,

Only an hour ago we experienced this same issue.

Cisco 3750's in a stack...plenty of good power....been running for a long time.

We have 6 in our stack, and #1 and #4 both put themselves in provisioned mode at the same time.

I don't think the switches were really in provision mode...commands to take them in and out of that mode did not do anything. (Nor did renumbering commands)

Thanks for the heads up on "pushing the problem down the stack" by just resetting just the "provisioned" switch...that comment probably saved us time and money...so we just reloaded the whole thing and dealt with the aftermath of doing so.

 

[JMoore64]

Glad to hear that we're not the only ones who seen this issue. The voices in my head told me we weren't crazy..