Description

This article provides information about the syslog message: ch_set_non_stop_forwarding_cfg:Setting

This message does not impact service. It is harmless and can be ignored.

Symptoms

The ch_set_non_stop_forwarding_cfg:Setting syslog messages are encountered as below:

ch_set_non_stop_forwarding_cfg:Setting non-stop-forwarding to Enabled, source DDL
ch_set_non_stop_forwarding_cfg: non-stop-forwarding enabled but pfeman_reconnect not enabled. Enabling pfeman_reconnect
ch_set_non_stop_forwarding_cfg: non-stop-forwarding enabled but re-failover not enabled. Enabling re-failover
ch_set_non_stop_forwarding_cfg: non-stop-forwarding enabled but failover-on-reboot not enabled. Enabling failover-on-reboot

Solution

Enabling GRES, NSR and NSB triggers these log messages when they are commited.

Example:
When the following is committed, the messages could be seen from syslog.

set chassis redundancy graceful-switchover
set routing-options nonstop-routing
set system commit synchronize

These syslog messages are chassisd traces seen during init time of GRES configuration. They are harmless and can be ignored.

They indicate settings of the non-stop-forwarding configuration, which involves enabling other configuration parameters that are required for non-stop-forwarding to work.