Troubleshooting Fibre Channel switch onboarding issues

Unified Compute Platform (UCP) Advisor Administration Guide
Version
4.6.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-92UCP119-15
ft:lastEdition
2024-09-24

Use the following guidelines and suggested steps to help resolve Fibre Channel switch onboarding issues.

Condition
Intermittently unable to onboard Fibre Channel switches to the UCP system.
What it means:
Either the Fibre Channel switch SNMP is disabled or enabled, or the HTTPS certificate is expired. The following error might be displayed:
Unable to add Fibre Channel switch <Fibre Channel switch IP address>. Authentication failed. Check your username, password. Authentication failed. Please check your username, password.
Corrective action 1:
  1. Using SSH, log on to the Fibre Channel switch.
  2. Generate the HTTPS certificate. Enter:
    seccertmgmt generate -cert https
  3. Retry onboarding the Fibre Channel switch to the UCP system.
Corrective action 2:
  1. Using SSH, log on to the Fibre Channel switch.
  2. Reboot the Fibre Channel switch, and then try onboarding it to the UCP system.
Corrective action 3:
  1. Using SSH, log on to the Fibre Channel switch.
  2. Verify the SNMP configuration:
    1. If the SNMP configuration is disabled, enable it. Enter:
      snmpconfig --enable snmpv1
    2. If the SNMP configuration is enabled, disable it. Enter:
      snmpconfig --disable snmpv1
  3. Retry onboarding the Fibre Channel switch to the UCP system.