VM APAR VM64021 has been opened to address this problem. 
Mary Ellen Carollo
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

On Wed, 10 May 2006 11:23:02 -0500, Brian Nielsen 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>This morning the LAN team was performing maintenance on the external 
CISCO 
>box that my OSA's connect to.  The logs shows the VSWITCH controllers 

>dutifully failing over between the 2 OSA cards each time the CISCO was 

>rebooted.  After several failover iterations I get HCPSWU2832E messages 

>and it never does anything after that.  The log shows this at the end:
>
>
>05:55:36 HCPSWU2830I VSWITCH SYSTEM SWITCH02 status is devices attached.

>HCPSWU2830I DTCVSW1 is VSWITCH controller.
>05:55:36 HCPSWU2832E The connection for VSWITCH SYSTEM SWITCH02 is not 

>active.
>HCPSWU2832E None of the RDEVs are available working QDIO OSA Express 
>devices.
>05:55:36 OSA 0500 DETACHED DTCVSW1 0500 BY DTCVSW1
>05:55:36 OSA 0501 DETACHED DTCVSW1 0501 BY DTCVSW1
>05:55:36 HCPSWU2832E The connection for VSWITCH SYSTEM SWITCH02 is not 

>active.
>HCPSWU2832E None of the RDEVs are available working QDIO OSA Express 
>devices.
>05:55:36 OSA 0502 DETACHED DTCVSW1 0502 BY DTCVSW1
>
>
>Doing Q VSWITCH showed that there was no longer a controller associated 

>with the VSWITCHes and that the devices were in "Error: Detached" status
.
>
>I had to do a SET VSWITCH SWITCH02 CONNECT to bring it back into working
 
>order.
>
>So, my questions are:
>
>1) What conditions in the OSA cause CP to think the RDEVs are no 
>longer "working QDIO OSA Express devices"?
>
>2) Is there anything I can do on the VM side to make this recover more 

>reliably when the LAN team messes with their CISCO box?  I'm not 
currently 
>running PROP, and would prefer not to start just for this.
>
>I'll probably open up a problem with the support center, but wanted to 

>check in here first.
>
>Brian Nielsen
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