Displaying The System Message Log One Message At A Time; Clearing The System Message Log; Port Log; Viewing The Port Log - Brocade Communications Systems StoreFabric SN6500B Troubleshooting Manual

Displaying the system message log
one message at a time
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the errShow command.

Clearing the system message log

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the errClear command.
3. Repeat

Port log

The Fabric OS maintains an internal log of all port activity. The port log stores entries for each port
as a circular buffer. The range of lines is 32768 to 65536 for the. For all other switches, the
number of lines range from 8192 to 16384. These ranges are for all ports on the switch, not just
for one port. When the log is full, the newest log entries overwrite the oldest log entries. The port
log is not persistent and is lost over power-cycles and reboots. If the port log is disabled, an error
message displays.
NOTE
Port log functionality is completely separate from the system message log. The port log is typically
used to troubleshoot device connections.

Viewing the port log

1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Enter the portLogShow command:
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step 2 on the standby CP for a complete erasure of the message log.
All switch and chassis events are removed from both CPs.
switch:admin> portlogshow
time task
-------------------------------------------------
Fri Feb 22 16:48:45 2008
16:48:45.208 SPEE
16:48:46.783 PORT
16:48:46.783 PORT
16:48:46.783 FCPH
02fffffd,00fffffd,be000000,00000000,02e201bf
16:48:46.783 FCPH
22380000,02e201bf,00000c1e,0000001c,00000000
16:48:46.828 SPEE
16:48:46.853 PORT
16:48:46.853 PORT
16:48:46.853 FCPH
02fffffd,00fffffd,bf000000,00000000,02e301c1
16:48:46.853 FCPH
22380000,02e301c1,00000c1e,0000001c,00000000

Port log

event port cmd args
sn 67 NM 00000009,00000000,00000000
Rx 64 40 02fffffd,00fffffd,02e2ffff,14000000
Tx 64 0 c0fffffd,00fffffd,02e201bf,00000001
read 64 40
seq 64 28
sn 67 NM 00000009,00000000,00000000
Rx 76 40 02fffffd,00fffffd,02e3ffff,14000000
Tx 76 0 c0fffffd,00fffffd,02e301c1,00000001
read 76 40
seq 76 28
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