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How to detect if SEA ent adapter is not working right in VIO AIX

Hello,
This is a bit dumb and confusing question/inquiry.

I have a dual vio setup in my environment on which i have several Lpars.
I am planning on upgrading my Vio's from 2.1 to 2.2

My colleague told me before he left for vacation that there is an adapter issue on vio1 and NIC card for ent15(SEA) needs to be replaced, before i begin the vio upgrade process.

However i am unable to determine the error or issue that he saw in the system for any issues with ent15(SEA).

I need assistance in troubleshooting this SEA and seeing if there is something wrong with it.

Thanks.

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woolmilkporc

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Hello wmp.

The issue is that ent15 is in standy mode.
I was going to fix that status with sudo chdev -l ent15 -a ha_mode=auto but i was told not to do so by my colleague who went on vacation, who mentioned that the NIC for ent15 needs to be replaced.

[padmin:/home/padmin]lsdev -dev ent15 -attr
attribute value description user_settable

accounting disabled Enable per-client accounting of network statistics True
ctl_chan ent9 Control Channel adapter for SEA failover True
gvrp no Enable GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GVRP) True
ha_mode standby High Availability Mode True
jumbo_frames no Enable Gigabit Ethernet Jumbo Frames True
large_receive no Enable receive TCP segment aggregation True
largesend 0 Enable Hardware Transmit TCP Resegmentation True
netaddr 0 Address to ping True
pvid 601 PVID to use for the SEA device True
pvid_adapter ent8 Default virtual adapter to use for non-VLAN-tagged packets True
qos_mode disabled N/A True
real_adapter ent14 Physical adapter associated with the SEA True
thread 1 Thread mode enabled (1) or disabled (0) True
virt_adapters ent8 List of virtual adapters associated with the SEA (comma separated) True
[padmin:/home/padmin]errlog -ls | grep -p ent14 | more
[padmin:/home/padmin]

I did not see any errors in errlog for ent14 the real adapter of ent15.

Please advise on how further it can be determined to see there is an issue with ent15, that it requires the NIC for ent15 be replaced.

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[root]lsdev -Cc adapter |grep -i ent15
ent15 Available Shared Ethernet Adapter

[root]netstat -v |grep -i link
Link Status: Up
Link Status: Up

Link Status: Up
Link Status: Up
Link Status: Up

Link Status: Up
Link Status: Up
Link Status: Up

[root]entstat -d ent15 |grep -i link

Link Status: Up
Link Status: Up
Link Status: Up

[root]entstat -d ent15 | grep -i media

Media Speed Selected: Auto negotiation
Media Speed Running: 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
Media Speed Selected: Auto negotiation
Media Speed Running: 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
Media Speed Selected: Auto negotiation
Media Speed Running: 1000 Mbps Full Duplex

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Thank you