How to talk to a standby MSFC


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How to talk to a standby MSFC

See Cisco's "Recover an MSFC Missing from the Supervisor Engine show module Command"

Subject: Re: fl2-3095-c1-gs not quite right
From: David Mitchell
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:25:10 -0600 (MDT)
To: ne@ucar.edu

I poked around on CCO, and there is a whole page devoted to 'missing' MSFC modules. For some reason, it looks like the boot variable on flrb didn't get updated at some point so it's trying to load a non-existent image and failing. When I get thru checking out the roof over at FL4 I'll go plug into the console and try to fix it. Right now, it's perpetually reloading. Since it's just a backup router it's not a big deal. Everything is working fine with just flra online.

The single most important trick to this whole thing is connecting to the MSFC on a standby module. If you want to try it to see what's going on, now might be a good time. You'll have to coordinate since only one person can use the console at a time.

connect to the module 1 console via fl2-3095-c1-ts
issue the command 'switch console 16'
the module 2 console is now talking to the MSFC.

You can use a Cntl-Q x to get back to the menu on fl2-3095-c1-gs.

Note that in step 2, the online help does not indicate that you can specify a module after the 'switch console' console command which kind of sucks.

-David

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