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What is this little symbol next to my e0M port?

SEIMTEXTER
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Looks like a little orange house with an x in front of it.

It's on a FAS8040 running ONTAP 9.7, and the GUI screenshot is from ONTAP System Manager, Network Overview tab.

 

Thanks!

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tahmad
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A LIF (logical interface) is an IP address with associated characteristics, such as a role, a home port, a home node, a routing group, a list of ports to fail over to, and a firewall policy. You can configure LIFs on ports over which the cluster sends and receives communications over the network.

for more information, refer to the below document:

What LIFs are 

 

When LIF is not home, this means that LIF was migrated to a different port. LIF is usually migrated, when the port or the node where the LIF exist is down. For more information:

Reverting a LIF to its home port 

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Ontapforrum
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Pic is not very clear,  I am guessing that is a symbol representing 'Home with cross sign', ? most likely the LIF is not on the Home-port (might have moved due to network/port/cable issue)

 

Anyway, first identify if there are any lifs not-at-home.

In the GUI, where you saw that thing, is there a column that says "Is-Home" ? Most likely it will be 'No' next to that port.

 

From cmd line, you can identify non-home lifs:
::> network interface show -is-home false

 

If home-port is healthy, simply revert the lif.

SEIMTEXTER
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There is no Is-Home column on the screenshot I have, unfortunately.  I also don't have access to this array.  What does LIF stand for, and what does it mean for a LIF to be home or not?  These are new concepts to me, I haven't done much administration of c-dot or ONTAP 9 in general.  Almost everything I've done is 7-mode at 8.2 and older. 

tahmad
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A LIF (logical interface) is an IP address with associated characteristics, such as a role, a home port, a home node, a routing group, a list of ports to fail over to, and a firewall policy. You can configure LIFs on ports over which the cluster sends and receives communications over the network.

for more information, refer to the below document:

What LIFs are 

 

When LIF is not home, this means that LIF was migrated to a different port. LIF is usually migrated, when the port or the node where the LIF exist is down. For more information:

Reverting a LIF to its home port 

junwang
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Hi,SEIMTEXTER,

The IP port of lif represented by this symbol is not on the main port. Due to port failure or line issues, it needs to be switched back to the main node port to restore normal operation. Select 'revert' to return to the main port, or enter a command on the CLI interface to return to the main port.
cluster1:> network interface revert -vserver svm_name -lif lif_name
or
cluster1:> network interface revert *

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