Administrator Guide

vrf vrf-name (Optional) E-Series only: You can congure a VPN routing and forwarding (VRF) instance
to specify the virtual routing table to which the tracked route belongs.
Defaults None
Command Modes CONFIGURATION
Command History
This guide is platform-specic. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell Networking
OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100-ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000-ON.
8.3.12.0 Introduced on the S4810.
8.4.1.0 Introduced.
Usage Information
Use this command to create an object that tracks the UP and/or DOWN threshold of an IPv4 route metric. In order
for a route’s metric to be tracked, the route must appear as an entry in the routing table.
A tracked IPv4 route is considered to match an entry in the routing table only if the exact IPv4 address and prex
length match a table entry. For example, when congured as a tracked route, 10.0.0.0/24 does not match the
routing table entry 10.0.0.0/8. If no route-table entry has the exact IPv4 address and prex length, the status of the
tracked route is considered to be DOWN.
When you congure the threshold of an IPv4 route metric as a tracked object, the UP/DOWN state of the tracked
route is also determined by the current metric for the route in the routing table.
To provide a common tracking interface for dierent clients, route metrics are scaled in the range 0 to 255, where
0 is connected and 255 is inaccessible. The scaled metric value communicated to a client always considers a lower
value to have priority over a higher value. The resulting scaled value is compared against the congured threshold
values to determine the state of a tracked route as follows:
• If the scaled metric for a route entry is less than or equal to the UP threshold, the state of a route is UP.
• If the scaled metric for a route is greater than or equal to the DOWN threshold or the route is not entered in
the routing table, the state of a route is DOWN.
You congure the UP and DOWN thresholds for each tracked route by using the threshold metric command.
The default UP threshold is 254; the default DOWN threshold is 255. The notication of a change in the state of a
tracked object is sent when a metric value crosses a congured threshold.
Related Commands
• show track – display information about tracked objects, including conguration, current state, and clients which
track the object.
• threshold metric – congure the metric threshold used to determine the UP and/or DOWN state of a tracked
route.
• track resolution ip route – congure the protocol-specic resolution value used to scale an IPv4 route metric.
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