8012 - FC Fabric state FAILED

Severity: CRITICAL

Description: The VC fabric lost all uplink connectivity because of lack of configured ports or all configured ports are in a bad state.

Possible causes:

  • The VC fabric has no configured ports. The user removed all the uplink ports from the fabric.
  • ALL VC fabric ports are in one of the following states:
    • FAILED (hardware error), UNAVAILABLE (not logged in), DISABLED, UNKNOWN (FC module NO-COMM).
    • There is no uplink that is in DEGRADED or OK state.

Action: Configure the uplink ports.