Set maintenance mode when performing regular maintenance of network devices. When a network device is in maintenance mode, error notifications upon changing of the operational status and execution of auto-configuration are suppressed on that device.
Perform the following operations to configure or release the maintenance mode settings of network devices.
Configuring Maintenance Mode
Network devices are put into maintenance mode in the following cases:
When configuring maintenance mode for a management host (IPCOM VX), maintenance mode is also configured for all virtual appliances operating on the management host (IPCOM VX).
When the infrastructure administrator has performed an operation from the ROR console which configures maintenance mode for a network device
Right-click the target network device in the network device tree on the ROR console.
Select [Maintenance Mode]-[Set] from the popup menu.
The [Set Maintenance Mode] dialog is displayed.
Click the [OK] button.
Maintenance mode is configured for the target network device.
When the infrastructure administrator has executed a command that places a network device into maintenance mode
Maintenance mode is configured for the target network device, by using the rcxadm netdevice set command with the -attr mode=maintenance option specified.
When auto-configuration has failed for a network device
Releasing Maintenance Mode
The network device is released from maintenance mode in the following cases:
When the infrastructure administrator has performed an operation from the ROR console which releases the network device from maintenance mode
Right-click the target network device in the network device tree on the ROR console.
Select [Maintenance Mode]-[Release] from the popup menu.
The [Release Maintenance Mode] dialog is displayed.
If the target network device is a management host (IPCOM VX), and when releasing all virtual appliances operating on the management host from maintenance mode, check "The Virtual Appliances' maintenance mode will also be released.".
Click the [OK] button.
The target network device is released from maintenance mode.
When the infrastructure administrator has executed a command that releases a network device from maintenance mode
The target network device is released from maintenance mode by using the rcxadm netdevice set command with the -attr mode=active option specified.
Information
When releasing a network device from maintenance mode, confirm the state of the target network device.
If there is no error in the state
Release the device from maintenance mode and change the operational status to "normal".
If a network device communication error is detected
The device cannot be released from maintenance mode.
When releasing a management host (IPCOM VX) from maintenance mode, if the status of virtual appliances is unknown, the maintenance mode of the virtual appliances cannot be released.
Example
When configuring maintenance mode using a command
# /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxadm netdevice set -name nd01 -attr mode=maintenance <RETURN> |
When releasing maintenance mode using a command
# /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxadm netdevice set -name nd01 -attr mode=active <RETURN> |
The maintenance mode configuration status can be confirmed by using one of following methods:
From the GUI:
Click the network device to confirm in the network device tree.
Select the [Resource Details] tab.
Confirm the maintenance mode status, referring to "Maintenance Mode" of "General".
maintenance
Indicates that maintenance mode is configured.
active
Indicates that maintenance mode is released.
From the Command-line:
Use the rcxadm netdevice list command to confirm the maintenance mode status.
Check the maintenance mode status in the "MAINTENANCE" displayed in the display results of the list subcommand.
ON
Indicates that maintenance mode is configured.
OFF
Indicates that maintenance mode is released.
See
For details on the rcxadm netdevice command, refer to "3.8 rcxadm netdevice" in the "Reference Guide (Command/XML) CE".
Note
When configuring maintenance mode for a network device, auto-configuration is not executed on the network device.
Therefore, when a network device configured for maintenance mode is in a redundancy configuration, it may be unable to keep the redundancy configuration depending on the configuration details.
When configuring maintenance mode for a network device with redundancy configuration, it is recommended not to perform operations (creation, modification, and deletion) for a tenant administrator.
The configuration details for which redundancy configurations cannot be maintained depends on the specifications of network devices configuring the network devices. For details, refer to the manuals of network devices.
Switchover of maintenance mode may not be necessary for performing maintenance, depending on the target network device. For details, refer to "9.5 Network Device Maintenance" in the "Operation Guide CE".
