Hi, Im setting up 9000v2 satellites in dual home as well as simple ring with ICCP/ORBIT. Hosts are 9904, 9006 running 6.2.3 and 6.4.2  I have been mostly sucesful in bringing up the setup and achieving active/standby, but some things are not clear and did not find answers in the documentation, so would appreciate some help Q1. Under normal conditions, ASR9904 is the active host servicing traffic to/from the satellite/s in my setup. It also seems to be the Primary ICCP device. (see below)   Now if I either change the host-priority for the satellite, or if I fail the ICL from the 9904 to the satellite, failover occurs and Satellite 100 is now active on the 9006 which was previously standby. this works fine.   Question is: The ICCP Group remains "Role Primary" on the 9904 even if the satellite fails over to the other host. I also proceeded to bring down the backbone link on the 9904, and while the logs show that the hosts lost their ICCP connection to each other, the 9904 remains reporting Primary while the 9006 remains reporting secondary. This doesnt sound right. Should the 9006 not become primary ?   RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:A9904-LAB#sh nv satellite status Thu Oct 24 11:14:59.225 CET Satellite 100 ------------- Status: Connected (Stable) Redundancy: Active (Group: 1) Type: asr9000v2 MAC address: 042a.e2c9.8edc IPv4 address: 10.0.100.1 (auto, VRF: **nVSatellite) Serial Number: CAT2025U2SE Remote version: Compatible (older version) ROMMON: 127.1 (Available: 128.1) FPGA: 1.1 (Available: 1.13) IOS: 378.0 (Available: 653.100) Configured satellite fabric links: TenGigE0/0/0/3 -------------- Status: Satellite Ready Remote ports: GigabitEthernet0/0/0-43 RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:A9904-LAB#sh nv satellite protocol redundancy Thu Oct 24 11:15:10.108 CET ICCP Group: 1 ------------- Status: Connected since 2019/10/23 12:11:59.902 Role: Primary (System MAC: 02a7.4201.c15e) Q2. If I setup more than one simple ring topology, ie if I have Satellite#100 connected to 9904 and Satellite#101 connected to 9006 in simple ring, and then I want to setup Satellite #102 and Satellite#103 as a new independent ring, but connect these ICL ports to the same host asr9k routers, on different teng ports on the asr9k of course, should I use a separate ICCP group for this new ring ?  ie is does one ICCP group belong to one MC-LAG bundle, or one simple ring ? Q3. I see from the documentation that the satellite IDs should be in the range 100-230, however asr9k allows you to configure a much bigger range for satellite id, and using ID 300 in fact it works. Is this some limitation in older code that is no longer the case, or should I strictly use only this range even with XR 6.4 ?   thanks   Mark ... View more

Hi, Can I please ask one of the a9k experts on the forum to kindly confirm (or deny) if the PEM tray and PSU PIDs below for ASR9k can be used interchangeably on ASR9006 and ASR9904 ASR9K-AC-PEM-V2 PWR-3KW-AC-V2 The part numbers from a CCW Estmate are the same. I just want to be sure that they can be used on either platform to simplify onsite spares many thanks Mark ... View more