NIC agent does not ping check even if NetworkHosts is configured
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Description
Error message
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Cause
Since InfoScale 7.4, the NIC agent checks for faults in /sys/class/net/{nic device}/operstate because it is no longer recommended to check the NIC status using Mii on the Linux side.
A ping check is only performed if this content is unknown and cannot detect failures during network problems where the state of the NIC does not change.
In other words, as long as the NIC is up, no ping check is performed and it is judged as ONLINE.
Resolution
PingOptimize can be set to 2 in the NIC resource. By adding this attribute, the ping check will be executed regardless of the state of the operstate.
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NIC testNIC (
Device = ens161
PingOptimize = 2
NetworkHosts = { "192.168.10.200" }
)
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Issue/Introduction
For example, the NIC agent running on a virtual machine cannot detect a NIC failure on the physical host as shown in the images below. The NIC agent ping check does not work for failures in the following cases.
Error message
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