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WHAT IS A KEEPALIVE TIMEOUT IN FCIP? SHOW PROPERTIES

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Article Number 000012049
Title What is a keepalive timeout in FCIP?
Security Partners/OEM
Status Approved and Published
Description In the simplest of terms a keepalive timeout is a heartbeat packet sent from peer to peer in an FCIP
environment that is unsuccessful.
Answer This is the typical messaging for KA timeout. Note the various priorities, circuits and finally the tunnel.
Each has its own KA timeout.

2016/06/17-16:00:21:308148, [XTUN-2005], 594561/36489, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 High-Pri QoS DOWN (Keepalive Timeout).,
ftnl_cp_vm.c, line: 1743, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:303651

2016/06/17-16:00:21:930759, [XTUN-2005], 594564/36490, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 Low-Pri QoS DOWN (Keepalive Timeout).,
ftnl_cp_vm.c, line: 1743, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:916149

2016/06/17-16:00:21:931139, [XTUN-2003], 594568/36491, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 Circuit 3 DOWN (Keepalive Timeout).,
ftnl_cp_capi.c, line: 2201, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:917593

2016/06/17-16:00:21:931232, [XTUN-2003], 594569/36492, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 Circuit 2 DOWN (Keepalive Timeout).,
ftnl_cp_capi.c, line: 2201, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:918112

2016/06/17-16:00:21:931467, [XTUN-2003], 594570/36493, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 Circuit 1 DOWN (Keepalive Timeout).,
ftnl_cp_capi.c, line: 2201, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:918586

2016/06/17-16:00:21:931595, [XTUN-2003], 594571/36494, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 Circuit 0 DOWN (Keepalive Timeout).,
ftnl_cp_capi.c, line: 2201, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:919314

2016/06/17-16:00:21:939507, [XTUN-2001], 594572/36495, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 DOWN (Network/Remote/Other)., ftnl_cp_capi.c, line:
2111, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:921443

2016/06/17-16:00:21:939737, [XTUN-2005], 594574/36496, FID 128, ERROR,

Node_32, FCIP Tunnel 16 Med-Pri QoS DOWN (Internal Close)., ftnl_cp_vm.c,
line: 1743, comp:bmd, ltime:2016/06/17-16:00:21:924391

By default circuits are set for a 10 sec keepalive timeout. 

Use a 1 sec keepalive timeout when tunnels have multiple circuits. This way, frames can be redriven
down another circuit more quickly. To modify keepalive, use portcfg fcipcircuit 16 modify <circuit ID> -k
1000

A FICON tunnel requires a keep-alive timeout of less than or equal to 1 second for each FCIP circuit
added to a tunnel.

For normal operations over FCIP tunnels, the keep-alive timeouts for all FCIP circuits in an FCIP tunnel
must be less than the overall I/O timeout for all FC exchanges. If the FC I/O timeout value is less than
the keep-alive timeout value, then I/Os will time out over all available FCIP circuits without being retried.

The keep-alive value should be based on application requirements. Check with your FC initiator
providers to determine the appropriate keep-alive timeout value for your application. The sum of keep-
alive timeouts for all circuits in a tunnel should be close to the overall FC initiator I/O timeout value. As
an example, a mirroring application has a 6-second I/O timeout. There are three circuits in the FCIP
tunnel. Set the keep-alive timeout to 2 seconds on each FCIP circuit. This will allow for maximum retries

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over all available FCIP circuits before an I/O is timed out by the initiator.

FCR requires the keepalive timer to be 1.5 seconds to so that FCR does not timeout.

The KA timeout value can be found under the circuit ID of the FCIP portion of the Supportsave.

Circuit ID: 17.0 (circuit 0 of tunnel 17)

Circuit Num: 0
Admin Status: Enabled
Oper Status: Up
Connection Type: Default
Remote IP: 10.251.131.58
Local IP: 10.250.30.58
Metric: 0
Failover Group ID: (Not Config/Active)
Min Comm Rt: 150000
Max Comm Rt: 400000
SACK: On
Min Retrans Time: 100
Max Retransmits: 8
Keepalive Timeout: 1000  <----------------- 1 second
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