ProLiant BL p-Class GbE2 Interconnect Switch ISCLI Reference Guide
Maintenance Commands 150
Panic command
The panic command causes the switch to dump state information immediately to flash memory and reboot.
To select panic, at the prompt, enter:
>> Switch# debug panic
A FLASH dump already exists.
Confirm replacing existing dump and reboot [y/n]:
Enter y to confirm the command:
Confirm dump and reboot [y/n]: y
A list of messages is displayed:
Starting system dump...done.
Reboot at 11:54:08 Wednesday February 28, 2007...
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Rebooted because of console PANIC command.
Booting complete
Unscheduled system dumps
If there is an unscheduled system dump to flash memory, the following message is displayed when you log on to the
switch:
Note: A system dump exists in FLASH. The dump was saved
at 13:43:22 Wednesday February 28, 2007.
Use show flash-dump uuencode to
extract the dump for analysis and clear flash-dump to
clear the FLASH region. The region must be cleared
before another dump can be saved.