Reference Guide

N8406-022A 1Gb Intelligent L2 Switch Smart Panel Reference Guide  88 
Maintenance Menu 
Introduction 
The Maintenance Menu is used for debugging purposes, enabling you to generate a technical support dump of the 
critical state information in the switch, and to clear entries in the Forwarding Database and the Address Resolution 
Protocol (ARP). This menu is available only from an administrator and operator login. 
Menu information 
Command: /maint  
[Maintenance Menu] 
 sys - System Maintenance Menu 
 fdb - Forwarding Database Manipulation Menu 
 debug - Debugging Menu 
 arp - ARP Cache Manipulation Menu 
 igmp - IGMP Multicast Group Menu 
 uudmp - Uuencode FLASH dump 
 ptdmp - tftp put FLASH dump to tftp server 
 cldmp - Clear FLASH dump 
 tsdmp - Tech support dump 
 pttsdmp - tftp put tech support dump to tftp server 
The following table describes the Maintenance Menu options. 
Table 85 Maintenance Menu options 
Command 
Usage 
sys 
Displays the System Maintenance Menu. 
fdb 
Displays the Forwarding Database Manipulation Menu. 
debug 
Displays the Debug Menu. 
arp 
Displays the ARP Cache Manipulation Menu. 
igmp 
Displays the IGMP Maintenance Menu. 
uudmp 
Displays dump information in uuencoded format. 
ptdmp 
Saves the system dump information via TFTP. 
cldmp 
Clears dump information from flash memory. 
tsdmp 
Dumps all switch information, statistics, and configuration. 
pttsdmp 
Redirects the technical support dump (tsdmp) to an external TFTP server. 
System maintenance options 
Command: /maint/sys  
[System Maintenance Menu] 
 flags - Set NVRAM flag word 
The System Maintenance Menu is reserved for use by NEC technical support. The options are used to perform 
system debugging. 
The following table describes the System Maintenance Menu options. 
Table 86  System Maintenance Menu options 
Command 
Usage 
flags <new NVRAM flags word as 
0xXXXXXXXX> 
Sets the flags that are used for debugging purposes by 
NEC technical support. 










