Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v6.4.0 (53-1001769-01, June 2010)

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SpinFab and portTest
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CAUTION
During the spinFab testing, the switch remains in normal operation. However, some performance
degradation will occur due to the ISL links being saturated with the test frames. This test should
be run with caution on a live fabric.
Table 15 lists the supported ports for the specified version of Fabric OS when using the spinFab
command.
Debugging spinFab errors
Link errors and tx/rx errors are seen when the spinFab test fails.
Link Errors
Once the frame is sent out of the port, the spinFab command monitors the link errors in the ASIC.
If any of the error counters are non-zero, spinFab reports ERROR and the test fails on the port.
ERROR: DIAG ERRSTAT spinfab, pass 6,
Pt0/17(7) Ch0/7 CRC_err Error Counter is 109738997 sb 0,
ERROR: DIAG ERRSTAT spinfab, pass 1,
Pt0/3(33) Ch0/33 Enc_in Error Counter is 32 sb 0,
ERROR: DIAG ERRSTAT spinfab, pass 1,
TABLE 15 Port type support
Port type Supported in v6.2.0 Supported in v6.3.0 Supported in v6.4.0
Loopback Yes Yes Yes
E_Ports Yes Yes Yes
Trunk Master ports Yes Yes Yes
Ports beyond index 255 No Yes Yes
Ports with swapped areas No Yes Yes
Shared-area ports No Yes Yes
Ports in logical switches No Yes Yes
Ports in base switches No Yes Yes
Trunk slave ports No No Yes
Long distance ports No No Yes
F_Ports connected to Brocade HBAs No No Yes
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1. If you use the spinFab command to test F_Ports connected to Brocade HBAs it is required that the
firmware version on the HBA is v2.1.1 or later.
ICL ports No No No
F_Ports connected to Access Gateway No No No
EX_Ports No No No
Ports in an Access Gateway switch No No No