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7-16 Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-0000518-09
Backing Up FICON Files
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Identifying Ports
The ficonshow rlir command displays, among other information, a tag field for the switch port. You
can use this tag to identify the port on which a FICON link incident occurred. The tag field is a
concatenation of the switch domain ID and port number, in hexadecimal format. The following example
shows a link incident for the switch port at domain ID 120, port 93 (785d in hex):
Backing Up FICON Files
The FICON file access facility is used to store configuration files. This includes IPL and other
configuration files. The Fabric OS saves the IPL and all other configuration files on the switch. A
maximum of 16 configuration files, including the IPL file, are supported.
You can upload the configuration files saved on the switch to a management workstation using the
configUpload command. If the switch loses the configuration due to a hardware failure or filesystem
error, use the configDownload command to restore previously uploaded configuration files. Because
data uploaded using the configUpload command also contains the IPL, if Active=Saved mode is
enabled, then the switch will ignore the IPL file downloaded via the configDownload command.
To upload the configuration files
Enter the configUpload command.
When you execute the configUpload command, all the files saved in the file access facility are
uploaded to a management workstation (there is a section in the uploaded configuration file labeled
“FICON_CUP” that exists in an encoded format).
switch:admin> ficonshow rlir
{
{Fmt Type PID Port Incident Count TS Format Time Stamp
0x18 F 785d00 93 1 Time server Thu Apr 22 09:13:32 2004
Port Status: Link not operational
Link Failure Type: Loss of signal or synchronization
Registered Port WWN Registered Node WWN Flag Node Parameters
50:05:07:64:01:40:16:03 50:05:07:64:00:c1:69:ca 0x10 0x200115
Type number: 002064
Model number: 103
Manufacturer: IBM
Plant of Manufacture: 02
Sequence Number: 0000000169CA
tag: 155d
Switch Port WWN Switch Node WWN Flag Node Parameters
20:5d:00:60:69:80:45:7c 10:00:00:60:69:80:45:7c 0x00 0x200a5d
Type number: SLKWRM
Model number: 24K
Manufacturer: BRD
Plant of Manufacture: CA
Sequence Number: 000000000078
tag: 785d
}
}
The Local RLIR database has 1 entry.
switch:admin> ficonshow rlir