I have been handed a ticket to work an RMA for a failed line card in a Cat6509-E. Not ever having worked with these devices before I had a few questions:
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The config that applies to the ports on the failed line card, do those persist via the Supervisory modules?? Meaning, if we simply rip/replace with the RMA'd linecard the ports will reconfigure themselves as they were?
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Are any commands required after swapping out the failed line card to bring the new card online to the system / restore configuration to those ports? If so, what are those?
Any other best practices when swapping line cards on the 6509-E you may have please feel free to share via comments. Finally – if the community feels this should be broken into separate Q's let me know and I will take care of it.
Best Answer
A line card swap is exceedingly simple. You'll need to make sure that the replacement card is the exact same model as the old one. You can certainly bring TAC on the call with you to do the swap if you want help.
A couple of caveats I've picked up through experience:
Of course, all of this will need to be done in a maintenance window. You should only expect traffic interruption on the line card in question, but leave yourself a "the switch might reset" clause in your maintenance window description.
Best of luck!