UCS ethernet port license

[Amr Hafez]

Hi All,

I found this message in FI about ethernet license port

Is this a problem ?

should I do anything?

[Saurabh Kothari]

Hey Amr,

This error is caused when a fabric interconnect has at least one port in the grace period. One or more ports on the FI are enabled after consuming all default licenses.


You can check the number of ports enabled, which would be the amount of licenses you are consuming.


You can also ssh to your fabric interconnect and run:


UCS# scope license

UCS#/license # show usage detail

Which will give you the total quantity of licenses, as well as the amount used.

If you have several ports enabled which are not actually being used, you can disable the ports to remove this alerts.

Regards,

Saurabh

[Amr Hafez]

Hi Saurabh,

I used only 6 ports active with SFP per FI and our license 12 ports per FI

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and the last 8 ports per FI are FC ports but not insert FC SFP in it

[Saurabh Kothari · Accepted solution]

can you disable any unused ports

[Amr Hafez]

I disabled 4 ports from each FI but no t the error still happening and show cmd tells 14 port used 

[Walter Dey]

Go port by port, and "unconfigure" any unused port !

[Keny Perez · Accepted solution]

Go to the Fabric Interconnect and then go to the "Physical Ports" tab, and disable any port that shows up as enabled but "SFP not present", those will consume a license.

-Kenny