Cisco Cisco Prime Network Services Controller Adaptor for DFA Troubleshooting Guide
Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation Production Troubleshooting Guide
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2. Once the above is completed, the matching profile will be instantiated on the leaf with the parameter instance
obtained (responsibility of Port Profile Manager process [PPM])
2.2 Debugging profile instantiation problems
2.2.1 Verify ADBM is able to talk to the LDAP database
If auto-configuration for a partition/network on a leaf switch(es) is unsuccessful, a syslog explaining why should be
displayed. An example is shown below:
displayed. An example is shown below:
HMM-3-AUTO_CONF_PROFILE_ERROR hmm VDP Host: Remote Database error:
HMM-3-AUTO_CONF_PROFILE_ERROR hmm Data snooping Host: Remote Database error:
This typically happens when ADBM was unable to find an entry in or reach the LDAP database. Start by looking at the
communication between the ADBM process on the switch and LDAP on Cisco DCNM (or external server). The follow-
ing tables are from the perspective of the ADBM process.
communication between the ADBM process on the switch and LDAP on Cisco DCNM (or external server). The follow-
ing tables are from the perspective of the ADBM process.
acorn1%PineForest:Tree1# show fabric database statistics
DB-Type Requests Dispatched Not dispatched Re-dispatched
---------------------------------------------------------------------
network 0 0 0 0
cabling 0 0 0 0
profile 0 0 0 0
partition 0 0 0 0
bl-dci 0 0 0 0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL 0 0 0 0
Per Database stats:
T Prot Server/DB Reqs OK NoRes Err TmOut Pend
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*ne ldap dfa-dcnm1 0 0 0 0 0 0
*pr ldap dfa-dcnm1 0 0 0 0 0 0
*pa ldap dfa-dcnm1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Legend:
T-Type (ne-network, ca-cabling, pr-profile, pa-partition, bl-bl-dci)
*-Active Server
The Per Database stats table displays the requests that went out to the active server dfa-dcnm1.
Section 2.2.2 below will provide examples as to scenarios in which you may see these counters increase.
2.2.2 Manual re-verification via "test fabric database" commands
Manual re-verification can be accomplished via CLI to test the communication between ADBM process on the switch
and the LDAP server (LDAP server is running within Cisco DCNM in the examples within this White Paper, but can be
external to Cisco DCNM if needed).
and the LDAP server (LDAP server is running within Cisco DCNM in the examples within this White Paper, but can be
external to Cisco DCNM if needed).
Note -This is just to test database querying and will not trigger profile instantiation.