ACI - Disabling OOB Mgmt interfaces (or removing faults)

[alastair_holloway]

Building an ACI environment without the OOB-Mgmt interfaces connected. I have the APIC OOB mgmt interfaces connected for build, but eventually the switch they are connected to is going away and no capacity for leaf/spine interfaces.

Currently receiving faults because on all the spines and leafs the mgmt0 interface is down. Is there a way to admin down these interfaces? or preferably remove the fault alerting for them. 

Acknowledging the faults doesn't accomplish anything.There is no "up/down" action in the menus like there are for normal interfaces e1/1-48 etc..

From the CLI there is no shut option available for those interfaces.

Running version 1.2(1k).

About only plan I have at the moment is to run a cable between the mgmt0 interfaces for Leaf1 -> Leaf2, Leaf3 -> Leaf4, Spine1 -> Spine2. Just because might remove the link-down warnings.

[Tomas de Leon · Accepted solution]

Alastair,

The only workaround for the issue to plug your management interfaces into a switch to get link. In previous releases, you could manually change the state of the interface to "Admin Down". The code was changed to make the interfaces to read-only. The following CDET was created to change the behavior back to the original behavior.

CSCux62176 - APIC: eth 1/2 "adminSt" is read-only, cannot be set

The ability to administratively shutdown management interfaces in the next maintenance release.

Thank you for using the Cisco Support Community!

T.

[alastair_holloway]

Okay thanks, just wanted to make sure wasn't missing anything.