Removing A Fabric Card - Cisco NCS 5500 Series Hardware Installation Manual

Replace Chassis Components
Note NCS 5508 and NCS 5516 chassis requires fully populated second generation fabric cards for fans to perform
at 100%.
To replace a fabric card, you must perform these operations, which are explained in the topics that follow:
1. Remove the fan tray that covers the fabric card that you are replacing.
2. Shut down and remove the fabric card.
3. Install the new fabric card.
4. Install the fan tray over the new fabric card.
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Removing a Fabric Card

Before you begin
• You must wear an electrostatic discharge (ESD) wrist strap or other ESD protective device while handling
• Prepare an antistatic surface or packing materials for each module that you remove from the chassis.
• You must remove the fan tray that covers the fabric card that you are removing.
Step 1
If you are replacing a fabric card, open the packaging for the new module and inspect it for damage.
If the module is damaged, alert the Technical Assistance Center (TAC) and stop this replacement process until you have
an undamaged module to install.
Step 2
To prevent loss of packets during operations, shut down the fabric card as follows:
a) Shut the fabric control plane using the controller fabric plane <plane-id> shutdown command in the sysadmin
mode.
There are six planes and the value of the <plane-id> is between 0 to 5.
When you are replacing the card, shutdown the corresponding fabric plane of the card. For example, when you are
replacing the card in slot 0 (0/FC0), shut down fabric plane 0.
b) Run the hw-module location <loc> shutdown command in admin mode.
c) Verify that the Fabric LED for the slot that you specified turns off. Also, you can verify that the card is in powered
off state running the show platform command to verify the status of the card to be POWERED_OFF.
Step 3 Remove the fan tray that covers the fabric card by following these steps:
a) Unscrew the four captive screws on the front of the fan tray (one on each corner of the front of the fan tray) until
each screw is free of the chassis (see Callout 1 in the following figure).
Replace Fabric Card (Video)
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