Packet loss on one of interfaces

[Varyag]

Check Point 60 with latest HFA, ClusterXL, 2 nodes + management, HA, all servers work under Solaris 9, bge NICs .

We have HP OpenView monitoring system, which every minute ping cluster interfaces. Monitoring system sometimes tell that on of interface unavailable on very short period(I assume that packets going to this interface losts). This is external interface(not Virtual) of active node. Other monitored interfaces available all time.
In SmartView Tracker I see that all packet from monitoring accepted by ruleset and no one of it blocked. In system log and in SmartView Tracker there no record informed that this interface up/down or media changed(10/100/1000).
When I ping from monitoring packet losts no more 5%.
At all time server load no more that 15%.
In SK with Expert access I don't find any article with something like this.

How can I debug this issue? Have anyone problem like this?

[melipla]

Originally Posted by Varyag

In system log and in SmartView Tracker there no record informed that this interface up/down or media changed(10/100/1000).
When I ping from monitoring packet losts no more 5%.
At all time server load no more that 15%.

The ClusterXL is extremely sensitive to interface changes so if any directly connected interface goes down even for a second then ClusterXL will log the state change in SmartView Tracker and it will cause a failover to the secondary member.

I think the fact that you're getting 5% packetloss is the area you need to investigate. If this is strictly on your LAN you should have zero packetloss. If you're crossing the internet to monitor remotely then packetloss is to be expected and your system should be designed to accommodate false positives.

To investigate packetloss, you need to examine every port inbetween the monitoring server and the firewall, looking for duplex and speed mismatches and check for interface errors.

[Varyag]

Thank you for the reply.
I think that very strange when on the other cluster interfaces packet did not losts. I check the media duplex and all interfaces and switch ports, but no problems found.