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Revert a LIF to its home port

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You can revert a LIF to its home port after it fails over or is migrated to a different port either manually or automatically. If the home port of a particular LIF is unavailable, the LIF remains at its current port and is not reverted.

About this task

  • If you administratively bring the home port of a LIF to the up state before setting the automatic revert option, the LIF is not returned to the home port.

  • The LIF does not automatically revert unless the value of the "auto-revert" option is set to true.

  • You must ensure that the "auto-revert" option is enabled for the LIFs to revert to their home ports.

The procedure you follow depends on the interface that you use—​System Manager or the CLI:

System Manager

Use System Manager to revert a network interface to its home port

Steps

  1. Select Network > Overview > Network Interfaces.

  2. Select Menu options icon > Revert beside the network interface you want to change.

  3. Select Revert to revert a network interface to its home port.

CLI

Use the CLI to revert a LIF to its home port

Step

Revert a LIF to its home port manually or automatically:

If you want to revert a LIF to its home port…​

Then enter the following command…​

Manually

network interface revert -vserver vserver_name -lif lif_name

Automatically

network interface modify -vserver vserver_name -lif lif_name -auto-revert true