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Cisco 6509 switch

bestsoftware
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I got " global checksum failed " at the end of a sh version on catalyst 6509. I need some help to find out what it is and how to fix it.

Thanks.

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alagrawa
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Hi,

You're most likely hitting bug CSCdx87646. http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCdx87646

Release Notes

Under rare circumstances, the Catalyst 6000 Series Switches may experience

a red status light on the supervisor module due to a NVRAM checksum error.

Under this condition you will observe the following:

"show version" will show a checksum failure of some type

"show test 1" will show the NVRAM:F

This will not have any impact to an operational switch unless configuration

changes are made while the switch is in this condition.

** PLEASE NOTE **

If the switch is reset, it is possible that some configuration data may be

lost.

Before the switch is reset, please make sure that you have a current copy of

your configuration stored on another device. This can be accomplished by

issuing

"show configuration", then copying and pasting to a text file.

WORKAROUND:

A reset of the supervisor module will clear this condition. Please make sure

you have a current copy of the configuration before the switch is reset.

This fix was also ported to 6.4(1) software with CSCdz32620.

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Please be sure to save your config to a tftp server asap. During a maintenance window, reload the switch and that should fix the issue. Will also be a good idea to upgrade the code to one of the codes that has the fix for this bug.

Hope this helps.

regards

-Alok

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