Brocade Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v6.1.0 (53-1000853-01, June 2008)

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Chapter
12
Working With Diagnostic Features
This chapter provides information on diagnostics and how to display or save system, port, and
specific hardware information. It also describes how to set up system logging mapping (syslogd)
and how to set up the offloading of error messages (supportSave).
In this chapter
This chapter contains the following topics:
•About Fabric OS diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
•Diagnostic information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
•Power-on self test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
•Switch status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
•Port information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
•Equipment status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
•System message log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
•Port log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
•Syslogd configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
•Automatic trace dump transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
•Automatic trace dump transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
•Diagnostic tests not supported by M-EOS 9.6.2 and FOS 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . 106
About Fabric OS diagnostics
The purpose of the diagnostic subsystem is to evaluate the integrity of the system hardware.
Diagnostics are invoked in the following two ways:
• Automatically during the power-on self test (POST)
• Manually using Fabric OS CLI commands
The error messages generated during these test activities are sent to the serial console and
system message logs, whose output formats may differ slightly.
Use the diagHelp command to receive a list of all available diagnostic commands.
See the Fabric OS Command Reference for a complete description of each command.