NVRAM showed no date

[leyakhath muhammed]

Hi,

Switch 1 and Switch 2 (C6506-E)work as VSS, when i checked NVRAM both switches both switches showed "<no date>" why does it show like that ?is it  wrong, please advice me 

SW001#dir nvram:
Directory of nvram:/

1918 -rw- 49113 <no date> startup-config
1919 ---- 2106 <no date> private-config
1920 -rw- 49113 <no date> underlying-config
1 ---- 345 <no date> persistent-data
2 ---- 0 <no date> rf_cold_starts
3 -rw- 0 <no date> ifIndex-table
4 -rw- 13 <no date> snmpid-file
5 -rw- 574 <no date> IOS-Self-Sig#3901.cer

1964024 bytes total (1907633 bytes free)

SW001#remote login switch-id 1 module 5
Trying Switch ...
Entering CONSOLE for Switch
Type "^C^C^C" to end this session

SW001-sdby-sp# dir nvram
1918 -rw- 49113 <no date> startup-config
1919 ---- 2106 <no date> private-config
1920 -rw- 49113 <no date> underlying-config
1 ---- 370 <no date> persistent-data
2 ---- 0 <no date> rf_cold_starts
3 -rw- 0 <no date> ifIndex-table
4 -rw- 13 <no date> snmpid-file
5 -rw- 574 <no date> IOS-Self-Sig#3901.cer
1964024 bytes total (1907633 bytes free)


Thanks

[educruz · Accepted solution]

Good day,

As far as I know this is not specific to the Cat6500 platform, but in general, the IOS does not store the date for files in NVRAM. I would consider this as an expected behavior.

Do you see any other switch in your environment that does?

Hope this helps.

Eduardo.