Eventlog Poblem with BayStack 350 ^^

[xyCruiseryx]

Hello all,

i have a little problem by 3 BayStack350-24T.

The management-IP Adress from Baystacks don´t answer on ICMP request alaway. sporadic, i get a answer with high delay. (All hosts an this wichtes works without problems, so that i think it is a management memory problem)

i looked in the event log and see the follow message:
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Entry Number: 362 sysUpTime: 105 days, 16:00:36 Reset Count: 17
The last event exceeded the write threshold. Further write attempts
by this event are blocked. The write threshold will be cleared when
the switch is reset or when the Event Log is compressed.
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A nortel document describe a compressed or reset feature on the baystack RAM. Yesteday, i boot one switch (flash should be empty) but the issue is not fixed and the IP-communication from management is the same and the message from log is still in the event/syslog.

Anybody a idea, how i can fix this error ???

 

[goodingsd]

You didn't state whether you were ICMPing from on or off segment nor what the latency from where you're ICMPing from and switch. If local and not remote then ...

Assuming you've configured the management IP interface properly - IP address, subnet mask & gateway - I'd guess that your switch is busy taking care of business.

Management functions from any Nortel box are low priority relative to its primary function, switching.

 

[xyCruiseryx]

Assuming you've configured the management IP interface properly - IP address, subnet mask & gateway - I'd guess that your switch is busy taking care of business.
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--The IP-Management was running for 5 years without problems. It is strange that the problem exists on 4 switches in same time. ----
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All Switches got the same log entries but the reset brings not change.



---Management functions from any Nortel box are low priority relative to its primary function, switching. -----------------------------------------------------

I know but a sporadic reply is not normaly and the duration from traffic is under 2 %.

 

[anthonyanderberg]

Perhaps you are experiencing a recent increase in broadcast traffic or some other kind of network change that is causing the system's (tiny) main CPU to be extra busy.

I'm not sure what the event is telling us, but it sounds like the event buffer is full... Do you have a remote trap collector setup for the switches?

As goodingsd mentioned, we have seen many people report that devices in that family often fail to respond to pings when under load. As I recall the degree to which the "issue" is seen varies among microcode versions. It might be worth searching this group's history, perhaps it would be best to search for 450-related messages since those boxes seem to be more common.