Administrator Guide

Managing a Port Extender
Manage the PEs connected to a parent C9010 through a Telnet session. You can display PE operational status and current stack
configuration or rest the PE.
Starting a Telnet Session
To manage a standalone port extender or a PE stack, start a Telnet session with the PE or the master unit in the stack using the
connect pe command.
● connect pe pe-id
EXEC Privilege
○ pe-id is a port-extender ID number from 0 to 255.
Dell# connect pe 254
Login: peadmin
Password: calvin
Displaying PE Status
To verify the operational status of a port extender attached to a C9010, enter any of the show commands in this section.
In the command output, online indicates that a port extender is up; offline indicates that a port extender is down.
Dell#show pe 255 brief
-- Port Extenders Information --
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PE-id Status Stack-size Type System-MAC Description
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255 online 2 N3048-PE f8:b1:56:33:ee:f2
Dell#show pe 1
Maximum number of PE Units allowed: 80
Current number of PE units in the system: 80 (Online: 0 Offline: 80)
Current number of PEs in the system: 15 (Online: 0 Offline: 15)
Codes: A - Active, I - Inactive
SVC - Software Version Compatible
Reason: CTM - Card Type Mismatch, CAM - CAM ACL Mismatch
SVM - Software Version Mismatch, UE - Unknown Error
Offline Reason: UNP - Unit Not Present, PVE - Port Validation Error
ICE - IPC CP Error, IRE - IPC RP Error
ISE - IPC Setup Error, CVE - Card Validation Error
PE-ID assigned: 1
Status: online
System Mac: f8:b1:56:73:a2:91
PE Up Time: 03:00:27
PE Description:
PE Discovery Status: Provisioned PE
User Configured Cascade Ports: Te 0/16(A)
Cascade LAG: Po 259, Local Status: Up, Remote Status: Down
PE Configuration: Local Status: Present, Remote Status: Not Present
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Stack-id Status Reason Type UnitMac No. of Ports Description
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0 online - N2048P-PE f8:b1:56:73:a2:91 52
1 online - N2048P-PE f8:b1:56:73:a2:89 52
2 online - N3024P-PE f4:8e:38:02:b1:43 30
Dell#show pe statistics
Port Extenders (PEs)
707