You'll need 2 SFMs to keep running normally. The MLXe-4 holds 3 so if you have them all you can remove I've without problem.
Aaron On Apr 12, 2013, at 5:27 AM, Chris Hellkvist <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > currently i have a SFM module in a MLX 4e showing strange errors (FE > Access failure detected on SNM 1/FE 1) in the log, also the SFM > utilization looks a bit unhealthy: > SFM#1 > ----------+-----------+---------+-----------+--------- > last 1 second utilization = 1494.3% > last 5 seconds utilization = 1494.3% > last 1 minute utilization = 1494.3% > last 5 minutes utilization = 1493.4% > > I have a SR with Brocade and they suggested to disable SFM1 and > created a RMA for the module. However they were not really able to > tell me what impact a power-off of SFM1 has on the traffic flowing > trough the device (both routed and switched). > > Has someone on the list experience with disabling SFM modules? Is this > causing any impact on the network or is this fully transparent? > > Thanks, > -Chris > _______________________________________________ > foundry-nsp mailing list > [email protected] > http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
