
58 IBM PowerVM Best Practices
Network Interface Backup on client LPARs
If you use the Network Interface Backup (NIB) with virtual Ethernet adapters on
AIX, the NIB is unable to obtain a link status because the virtual Ethernet adapter
is always
up. This configuration has a few impacts:
The NIB must ping an IP address that is outside of the Power Systems server.
To avoid the error log from filling up with NIB entries, apply an error log filter
for error ID 5561971C by using the errupdate command.
The error log contains entries about the NIB being unable to perform certain
operations. Best practice is to ping a gateway of a specific network, ...