There have been a few folks asking me if I know what the following log entry is on their Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 Series, “NVR Audit data initialized – incorrect magic number: 0xffffffff”.
I believe this is documented from Nortel as a bug in their latest software. The switch is throwing an error because the audit data (a new feature in the v5.x software line) is not present in the configuration or NVRAM the first time the switch boots after an upgrade to v5.x. This error could also occur if you’ve just factory reset your switch to the default configuration. I believe the error can be safely ignored as I’ve seen it on all 42 of my 5500 series switches.
I do remember seeing something about this error documented from Nortel, unfortunately I can’t seem to find that reference now.
ERS-5520# show logging Type Time Idx Src Message ---- ----------------------- ---- --- ------- S 00:00:00:00 1 NVR SNTP: Could not sync to NTP servers. S 2007-04-05 17:18:08 GMT 2 NVR SNTP: Could not sync to NTP servers. S 2007-04-05 17:22:07 GMT 3 NVR Audit data initialized - incorrect magic number: 0xffffffff I 2007-04-19 01:21:03 GMT 4 Web server starts service on port 80. I 2007-04-19 01:21:19 GMT 5 IGMP: Unknown Multicast Filter disabled I 2007-04-19 01:21:19 GMT 6 PoE Port Detection Status: Port 1 Status: Delivering Power I 2007-04-19 01:21:22 GMT 7 PoE Port Detection Status: Port 35 Status: Delivering Power I 2007-04-19 01:21:49 GMT 8 Port 0/47 reenabled by VLACP I 2007-04-19 01:21:49 GMT 9 Port 0/48 reenabled by VLACP I 2007-04-19 01:23:05 GMT 10 SNTP: First synchronization successful. I 2007-04-19 01:23:18 GMT 11 Warm Start Trap I 2007-04-19 01:23:19 GMT 12 Link Up Trap Port: 1 I 2007-04-19 01:23:20 GMT 13 Trap: pethPsePortOnOffNotification I 2007-04-19 01:23:20 GMT 14 Trap: bsAdacPortConfigNotification for Port: 47, Config: Applied
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