Brocade Web Tools Administrator's Guide (53-0000194-01, November 2006)

12-2 Web Tools Administrator’s Guide

Publication Number: 53-0000194-01

Using the Trace tab of the Switch Admin module, you can view and configure the trace FTP host target

and enable or disable automatic trace uploads.

Figure 12-1 Trace Tab

How a Trace Dump Is Used

The generation of a trace dump causes a CRITICAL message to be logged to the system error log.

When a trace dump is detected, issue the supportSave command on the affected switch. This command

packages all error logs, the supportShow output, and trace dump, and moves these to your FTP server.

You can also configure your switch to automatically copy trace dumps to your FTP server (see “Setting

Up Automatic Trace Dump Transfers,” next).

In addition to automatic generation of trace dumps on faults, you can also generate a trace dump

manually or when certain system error messages are logged. This is normally done with assistance from

Brocade customer support when diagnosing switch behavior.

For details on the commands, see the Fabric OS Command Reference.