Clearing UCS Manager fault about unused adapter uplink from C-series

[QPChelpdesk]

I have a number of C240M3 servers in a UCS infrastructure.  They all have two VIC 1225 adapters and when they were initially connected, the technicians accidentally connected the second adapter on some of them to the FEXs.  For now at least, we only want the first adapters used (both ports - one to each FEX).  However, since adapter 2 was connected at one point, UCS Manager won't stop giving these faults:

F0206 - Adapter 5/2 is unreachable

F0209 - Adapter uplink interface 5/2/1 link state: unavailable

It doesn't seem to have a way to clear the faults without reconnecting that second adapter.  Re-acknowledging the server didn't help and I'm not sure I want to try decommissioning them and then getting them to appear in UCS again.

Does anyone know how to manually clear these faults?

[Keny Perez]

So the second PCIe card is not connected anymore?  Do you have the luxury of reack'ing the FEX so that it recognizes that the Adapter is not there anymore?

-Kenny

[QPChelpdesk]

Hi Kenny,

Correct; the second PCIe card is not connected to a FEX anymore.  I tried reack'ing the FEXs but that didn't help, unfortunately.  (If it helps, the fault appears in the individual servers' Faults tab - the FEXs don't show any faults.)

[Keny Perez]

Could be possible you are seeing something like this:

https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCut07072/?reffering_site=dumpcr

[QPChelpdesk]

I don't think so. These faults show up in either view described (in the main Manager interface and in the KVM console, etc.).  So I don't think it's a false error count.

[Keny Perez · Accepted solution]

Open a TAC case and get TAC look at the faults so we can try to clear them out, if they are real error messages.

-Kenny