Monitor falsely reports NIC resource as offline when zone is shutting down (2683680)

If a NIC resource is configured for an Exclusive IP zone, the NIC resource is monitored inside the zone when the zone is functional. If the NIC monitor program is invoked when the zone is shutting down, the monitor program may falsely report the NIC resource as offline. This may happen if some of the networking services are offline but the zone is not completely shut down. Such reports can be avoided if you override and set the ToleranceLimit value to a non-zero value.

Workaround: When a NIC resource is configured for an Exclusive IP zone, you are recommended to set the ToleranceLimit attribute to a non-zero value.

Calculate the ToleranceLimit value as follows:

Time taken by a zone to completely shut down must be less than or equal to NIC resource's MonitorInterval value + (MonitorInterval value x ToleranceLimit value).

For example, if a zone take 90 seconds to shut down and the MonitorInterval for NIC agent is set to 60 seconds (default value), set the ToleranceLimit value to 1.