Symptom
Status of RADIUS server is marked as UP while status of individual WNCD instances is marked as DEAD:
RADIUS: id 2, priority 2, host X.X.X.X, auth-port 1812, acct-port 1813, hostname RADIUS_FQDN_X.X.X.X
State: current UP, duration 323s, previous duration 60s <<< Status UP
Dead: total time 60s, count 1
Platform State from SMD: current UP, duration 323s, previous duration 60s
SMD Platform Dead: total time 60s, count 2
Platform State from WNCD (1) : current DEAD
Platform State from WNCD (2) : current DEAD
Platform State from WNCD (3) : current DEAD
Platform State from WNCD (4) : current DEAD
Platform State from WNCD (5) : current DEAD
Platform State from WNCD (6) : current DEAD
Platform State from WNCD (7) : current DEAD
Platform State from WNCD (8) : current DEAD, duration 1861s, previous duration 0s
Platform Dead: total time 1861s, count 16DEAD
Quarantined: No
Authen: request 2, timeouts 0, failover 0, retransmission 0
Response: accept 0, reject 2, challenge 0
Response: unexpected 0, server error 0, incorrect 0, time 217ms
Transaction: success 2, failure 0
Throttled: transaction 0, timeout 0, failure 0
Malformed responses: 0
Bad authenticators: 0
Dot1x transactions:
Response: total responses: 0, avg response time: 0ms
Transaction: timeouts 0, failover 0
Transaction: total 0, success 0, failure 0
MAC auth transactions:
Response: total responses: 0, avg response time: 0ms
Transaction: timeouts 0, failover 0
Transaction: total 0, success 0, failure 0
Conditions
Seen after WLC reload with multiple RADIUS servers learnt by WLC through FQDN resolution.
Workaround
At this time, there is no workaround.