Deployment Guide

46 Dell EMC Networking Virtualization Overlay with BGP EVPN
9 Spine switch validation
After connected devices are configured, many commands are available to validate the network configuration.
This section provides a list of the most common commands and their output for this topology.
Note: The commands and output shown below are for Spine1. The output for Spine2 is similar.
9.1 General commands
9.1.1 show interface status
The show interface status | grep up command is used to verify all required interfaces are up and
links are established at their appropriate speeds.
Spine1# show interface status | grep up
Port Description Status Speed Duplex Mode Vlan Tagged-Vlans
Eth 1/1/1 Leaf1a eth 1/.. up 100G full -
Eth 1/1/2 Leaf1b eth 1/.. up 100G full -
Eth 1/1/3 Leaf2a eth 1/.. up 100G full -
Eth 1/1/4 Leaf2b eth 1/.. up 100G full -
Eth 1/1/5 Leaf3a eth 1/.. up 100G full -
Eth 1/1/6 Leaf3b eth 1/.. up 100G full -
9.1.2 show lldp neighbors
The show lldp neighbors command is useful for identifying connected switches by port.
Spine1# show lldp neighbors
Loc PortID Rem Host Name Rem Port Id Rem Chassis Id
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ethernet1/1/1 Leaf1a ethernet1/1/53 3c:2c:30:10:36:00
ethernet1/1/2 Leaf1b ethernet1/1/53 3c:2c:30:10:41:00
ethernet1/1/3 Leaf2a ethernet1/1/25 e4:f0:04:6b:01:42
ethernet1/1/4 Leaf2b ethernet1/1/25 e4:f0:04:6b:04:42
ethernet1/1/5 Leaf3a ethernet1/1/25 e4:f0:04:81:46:cc
ethernet1/1/6 Leaf3b ethernet1/1/25 e4:f0:04:81:3f:cc