There is definitely something going on with the networking to the IMMs. From a BNT switch I issued constant ping commands to of the IMM IP addresses in Prod 2:
sambx13#ping 10.214.15.17
[host 10.214.15.17, max tries 5, delay 1000 msec , length 0]
10.214.15.17: #1 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #2 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #3 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #4 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #5 timed out.
Ping finished.
sambx13#ping 10.214.15.17
[host 10.214.15.17, max tries 5, delay 1000 msec , length 0]
10.214.15.17: #1 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #2 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #3 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #4 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #5 timed out.
Ping finished.
sambx13#ping 10.214.15.17
[host 10.214.15.17, max tries 5, delay 1000 msec , length 0]
10.214.15.17: #1 ok, RTT 0 msec.
10.214.15.17: #2 ok, RTT 1 msec.
10.214.15.17: #3 ok, RTT 1 msec.
10.214.15.17: #4 ok, RTT 1 msec.
10.214.15.17: #5 ok, RTT 1 msec.
Ping finished.
sambx13#ping 10.214.15.17
[host 10.214.15.17, max tries 5, delay 1000 msec , length 0]
10.214.15.17: #1 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #2 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #3 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #4 timed out.
10.214.15.17: #5 timed out.
sambx13#ping 10.214.15.17
[host 10.214.15.17, max tries 5, delay 1000 msec , length 0]
10.214.15.17: #1 ok, RTT 797 msec.
10.214.15.17: #2 ok, RTT 1 msec.
10.214.15.17: #3 ok, RTT 1 msec.
10.214.15.17: #4 ok, RTT 1 msec.
10.214.15.17: #5 ok, RTT 1 msec.