Brocade Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000853-01, June 2008)

Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide 85
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Troubleshooting FICON NPIV
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Symptom Upgraded firmware from v5.0.x to v5.2.1a. The Brocade 24000 crashed when new firmware went
active.
Probable cause and recommended action
RNID processing enhancement in firmware.
The following message will appear in the switches log:
2007/05/13-07:06:56, [KSWD-1003], 78412/24993, FFDC, WARNING, SilkWorm24000,
kSWD: Detected unexpected termination of:
''[4]ficud:0'RfP=712,RgP=712,DfP=0,died=1,rt=87261,dt=36843,to=50000,aJc=35761,aJ
p=19101,abiJc=1942030008,abiJp=1942013308,aSeq=3,kSeq=0,kJc=0,kJp=0,J=50418,rs=2'
, swd.c, line: 462, comp:ficud, ltime:2038/01/18-20:31:28
This problem occurred due to the RNID-processing enhancement in the Fabric OS code. The
mainframe configuration was sending out a lot of RNIDs to the switch and it could not process all of
them in a timely manner.
To fix this issue upgrade to v5.2.2 or v5.3.0.
Troubleshooting FICON NPIV
The user should capture all pertinent data from the “General information to gather for all cases” on
page 80 and “Gathering additional information” on page 82.
NPIV licenses must be installed on v5.0.x. There is no license requirement for Fabric OS v5.1.0 and
above.