Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise User Manual v10.3.X (53-1001357-01, November 2009)

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IP troubleshooting

NOTE

IP troubleshooting is only available for Fabric OS devices.

You can perform the following operations using IP 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.

To configure IP ping, complete the following steps.

1. Select Configure > IP 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 30 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.

Packet Lost percentage The number of packets lost expressed as a percentage of the packets

sent. This will be 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% for 0, 1, 2, 3, or all 4

packets lost.

Minimum Round Trip Time The shortest time, in milliseconds, of any response. If no response, the

round trip times is 0.