Testing The System; Verifying The Release And System Type; Verifying Connectivity - Brocade Communications Systems 5600 Quick Start Manual

Testing the system

1. During the boot sequence, press the appropriate key (for example, <F2>) to interrupt the boot
sequence and enter the BIOS setup program for your system.
2. In the boot sequence menu, arrange the boot devices such that the device name for the CD or DVD
drive is first in the list. This arrangement allows the system to boot from a CD or DVD, if one is
present.
3. Save the settings and reboot the system. When the system restarts, it boots from LiveCD.
After the system has booted, confirm that you can access it from your network.
Testing the system
After the system has successfully booted, you see the vyatta login: prompt. This prompt indicates
that the system is operational.
Perform the following procedures:
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Verifying the release and system type

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Verifying connectivity

Verifying the release and system type
We must confirm that the correct release version is running on the system.
To verify the release and system type:
1. Log in with the username and password that you provided during installation. During installation, if
the default user of vyatta was not chosen and a new user was created, then use the new
username and password to log in. Use the default password of vyatta unless you have changed
it.
2. Run the show version command.
• The Version: line displays the version number of the system that is running. Make sure that the
• The System type: line displays the type of hardware on which the system is running and
• The Boot via: line displays the type of system that is running.
Verifying connectivity
After you confirm that the correct vRouter version is running, you must confirm that the Brocade
vRouter can be accessed on the local network. A quick-and-easy way to do this is to configure an
Ethernet interface on the system and then ping the interface from another host on the network.
NOTE
In the Brocade vRouter, a dataplane interface is an abstraction that represents the underlying physical
or virtual Ethernet interface of the systems. The terms Ethernet interface and dataplane interface are
synonymous in this guide.
To test system connectivity:
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displayed result is the version you require.
whether it is in a virtual environment. Make sure that the displayed result is the version you
require.
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