OnTAP 8.1 7-mode on FAS2240.
cf.hw_assist.enable is turned OFF.
There is NO RLM in the filer.
Yet, I get this message:
Wed Sep 5 01:24:28 GMT [head1:cf.hwassist.missedKeepAlive:warning]: hw_assist: missed keep alive alert from partner(head2)
Options:
head1> options cf.hw_assist
cf.hw_assist.enable off
cf.hw_assist.partner.address <some.ip.address.x.x.x.x>
cf.hw_assist.partner.port 4444
Note that cf.hw_assist.partner.address was never set, it looks like that was autodiscovered via DNS (I surmise this because that IP happens to be the IP address of an old filer being decommissioned--
that is, the old "head2").
In other words, the IP address set for that parameter is NOT the partner's IP address, but it is the IP address of head2 in the old filer.
In any case, that's not the subject of this posting, merely an interesting observation.
It looks like there's NO way to blank out this option (either with "", or with 0.0.0.0 as suggested in other threads).
Unless there's some other settings that come into play of which I am not aware, it would appear that the setting of cf.hw_assist.enable is completely ignored,
causing the filer to behave as if that parameter was enabled regardless. Anyone finds this not to be the case?
Does anyone have this setting disabled _and_ never seen a missedKeepAlive warning? Or did I misunderstand the purpose of disabling this option?
"thxkbai"
