Does anybody know what "Transfer failure. Reason =5" indicates. I get this whenever I try and do config upload via tftp to Cirrus. This was working and I am not sure what has changed. Can not find error codes anywhere.
Error 5 means that the device is stating that there is no buffer space. I recommend checking to see if the configuration file is larger or if something is occupying more RAM on the device. Also, double-check the amount of free memory on the device.
I checked the buffers on the switches, and they are fine. After some more troubleshooting, I found that the switch sends the TFTP write request and gets a failure. So it seems to me that the server was not responding on port 69. As a test a started the Solarwinds TFTP server App, an low and behold the uploads now work. The troubling thing is the config uploads where working fine up til a couple of months ago and we did not have the seperate TFTP server running. I would have thought the Cirrus had a built in TFTP server so that I would not have to leave the serpate one running all the time. Any thoughts?
The Cirrus installation includes a TFTP Server. You can always start it up by going to Start > Programs > SolarWinds Configuration Management > TFTP Server. When Cirrus needs to perform a config transfer, the TFTP Server in the Cirrus directory should automatically start up. If another application is currently running on port 69, then Cirrus will be unable to start up the TFTP Server. This will cause the TFTP transfer to fail.
Thanks Haley, the problem is I have to manually start the TFTP server in order to upload configs.
When Cirrus needs to perform a config transfer, the TFTP Server in the Cirrus directory should automatically start up This is part that is failing. This was working at one point and the only thing that has changed is we have patched Orion, which is the only other App running on the server.
