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PowerVault™ 50F Commands: Dell™ PowerVault™ 50F 8-Port Fibre Channel Switch Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
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The flashSet command is used to set the switch's configuration parameters. This command may not be
executed on an operational switch. You must first disable the switch using the switchDisable command.
flashShow
The flashShow command prints the switch's configuration status. The display shows remote host and flash
configuration information for flash-0 and flash-1 (a mirrored image of flash-0 and included as a fail safe
device). Table 7-4 describes the command fields.
Table 7-4. flashShow Command Field Descriptions
Field Description
Ethernet
address
Switch's Ethernet MAC address for an Ethernet connection
Nvram data:
Remote host information including Ethernet interface
fl-0
Flash 0 data
fl-1
Flash 1 data contained on the CPU board
version
Reserved (this is not a firmware version)
domain
The domain number. This number uniquely identifies the switch in a Fabric
syslogd_ip
The system log daemon IP address
fc_ip_addr
The Fibre Channel IP address
fc_ip_mask
The Fibre Channel IP subnetmask
bb_credit
The buffer to buffer credit
df_size
The receive data field size
r_a_tov
The resource allocation time out value
e_d_tov
The error detect time out value
op_mode
Operating mode
vc_link_ctl
Virtual channel link control
vc_class2
Virtual channel class 2
vc_class3
Virtual channel class 3
vc_multicast
Virtual channel multicast
vc_tmap
Virtual channel time out map
vc_priorities
The numbers displayed show the priorities assigned to each of the switch's virtual channels. Positions 1 and 2,
starting at the left of the display, are fixed and display 0 or 1.
The first position a 0 shows and indicates that this virtual channel, assigned to handle internal switch traffic,
has the highest priority.
This priority value cannot be changed.
The second position, indicated with a 1, shows the priority assigned by the virtual channel link control.
The third through eighth positions can have only a 2 or a 3, indicating that the channel gives priority to either
Class 2 frame traffic or to Class 3 frame traffic.
csum
Checksum
text off
Text offset in flash
text addr
Text address in RAM
text size
Text size (bytes)
data off
Data offset in flash
data addr
Data address in RAM
data size
Data size (bytes)
magic
The magic number represents the maximum frame size