OSA card problems

[Hans Rempel]

We just lost access to one of our networks. 
I destroyed the vswitch in both LPARs and vary off devices and paths to that 
card. I then disabled the osa card and re - enabled it. I then brought up the 
device and it showed free. I than define the vswitch and receivced error msg 
HCPSWU2830I device not ready. 
Message says Initialization has completed, but the virtual switch controller 
received a response from the device indicating that the device is not ready. 
The connection to the real hardware LAN is not operational.

Is there anything else I can do to reset or ready the osaII card?

hans Rempel   





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Re: OSA card problems

[Roger Lunsford]

My past experience with OSA-2 cards was they may take a couple more cycle
s 
to become READY with their Config/OAT table loaded and available.  The wa
y 
to Reset/load an OSA-2 card is to vary the chpid offline and then back on
 
(which requires the OSA-2 devices to be taken offline first).  Then give 

it a 'little bit' of time and see of the devices are online.  You may nee
d 
to manually vary the devices back online if you manually varied them 
offline. Thats what I have seen with some of the (older) OSA-2 devices.
Best Regards, Roger Lunsford (IBM CP and Perfkit Level2/Level3)

Re: OSA card problems

[Hans Rempel]

Thanks all for your suggestions. Alan, we did vary of the cphids from both
LPARS but maybe we varied them on line to soon. I later found out that when
we try to disable/enable the card port (OSA express) it displayed a hardware
state of LinkMonitor. I searched the web and IBM site and found it but no
explanation of what it means. 

Can you direct me to the manual,URL or an explanation? 

Thanks Hans  

-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: February 1, 2007 5:59 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: OSA card problems

On Thursday, 02/01/2007 at 02:56 EST, Hans Rempel 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 We just lost access to one of our networks.
 I destroyed the vswitch in both LPARs and vary off devices and paths to 
that 
 card. I then disabled the osa card and re - enabled it. I then brought 
up the 
 device and it showed free. I than define the vswitch and receivced error 
msg 
 HCPSWU2830I device not ready.
 Message says Initialization has completed, but the virtual switch 
controller 
 received a response from the device indicating that the device is not 
ready. 
 The connection to the real hardware LAN is not operational.
 
 Is there anything else I can do to reset or ready the osaII card?

To reset an OSA, you must vary the *chpid* offline in all LPARs that have 
it online.  Then vary it back online.  You can use HMC or operating system 
commands to do that.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott