Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v11.1x (53-1002167-01, May 2011)

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FCIP troubleshooting

NOTE

FCIP troubleshooting is only available for Fabric OS devices.

You can perform the following operations using FCIP troubleshooting:

• Ping. Use to confirm that the configured FCIP tunnels are working correctly.

• Trace Route. Use to view the route information from a source port on the local device to a

destination port on another device and determine where connectivity is broken.

• Performance. Select to view FCIP tunnel performance between two devices.

Configuring IP ping

NOTE

IP Ping only supported on Fabric OS devices running Fabric OS 5.2 or later.

NOTE

IP Ping is not supported on the Fabric OS 8 Gbps Extension Switch or Blade.

You can also verify IP connectivity when configuring an FCIP circuit. For more information, refer to

“Adding an FCIP circuit”.

To configure IP ping, complete the following steps.

1. Select Configure > FCIP Troubleshooting > Ping.

The IP Ping dialog box displays.

2. Select a switch from the Available Switches table.

3. Select a port from the GigE Port list.

4. Select an IP address switch from the IP Interface list.

5. Enter the remote IP address in the Remote IP Address field.

6. Click OK.

Ping sends four Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Ping packets to the destination

address and records the time until a response.

The IP Ping Result dialog box displays with two tables.

The top table (FCIP IP Ping Response Details) contains the following statistics:

TABLE 44 FCIP IP Ping Response Details

Field or Component Description

Status Always displays ‘Completed’. If there is a failure, an error message

displays instead of the IP Ping Result dialog box.

Packets Sent Always displays ‘4. This is not configurable.

Packets Received The number of received responses.

Packets Lost Equal to the number of packets sent minus the number of packets

received.