Has anyone got an idea of how to unlock SVMI ports without defaulting the card first?I m having a situation whereby power fails and on power restoration the svmi does not start-up but has all its ports locked out.

Have you tried hitting the reset button on the front of the SVMi? It does not default it, just let's it reboot.

I've had that happen when i had too many mailboxes (several thousand) due to telling it to create the spnet mailboxes.

Had to default and reprogram

In port activity type "unlock ports 1-XX" then enter.