Brocade Fabric Manager Administrator's Guide v6.1.0 (53-10000610-02, June 2008)

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Trace route displays detailed routing information from a source port or area on the local switch to a
destination port or area on another switch. This routing information describes the exact path that a
user data stream takes to go from the source port to the destination port, including all intermediate
switches.
NOTE
Fabric Manager cannot capture the routing information if any of the switches in the path are running
Fabric OS v2.x or XPath OS.
The route information depends on the state of the intermediate switches and their ports. The path
obtained for two ports might not be the same at all times. Also, the reverse path might not be the
same as the forward path.
If one of the ports is inactive, the path shown is the path if the port was active.
Trace route performs a zoning check between the source and destination ports and displays
whether the selected device port WWNs are part of an active zone configuration. Note that if the
selected device port WWNs are part of a zone that is not active, then the trace route displays that
the device ports are not zoned.
Trace route also displays the maximum, minimum, and average round trip time for the data
between the device port WWNs and the domain controller.
Capturing trace route information
1. Select Tasks > Device Management and Troubleshooting > Trace Route.
The Trace Route dialog box displays, as shown in Figure 230.
FIGURE 230 Trace Route dialog
NOTE
IP Traceroute dialogs launched from the right click menu for a GigE port also list
non-FCIP-capable switches in the fabric tree.