Using Diagnostic Commands - ProCurve 9304m Diagnostics Manual

The HP diagnostic commands are tools that you can use to gather information about HP devices. The diagnostic
commands start with de, debug, mm, phy, and ptrace.
de Displays information about CPU buffer allocations.
debug Reports debugging information that you can use to resolve configuration problems.
mm Displays the contents of a specified address on every module. (Available on Chassis devices only)
phy Displays information about PHY (hardware) registers for a specified port.
ptrace Displays information on the console when a specified kind of packet is transmitted or received.
In addition, the show ip bgp debug command reports information about resource allocation and errors in a BGP
configuration.
These commands are available in Privileged EXEC mode on the Command Line Interface (CLI) only. You cannot
use them in the device's Web management interface. For complete syntax information for the diagnostic
commands, see the next chapter, "HP Diagnostic Command Reference" on page 3-1.
Many of the diagnostic commands are meant to be used in conjunction with calls to HP technical support. If you
report a problem, the support engineer may ask you to execute one or more of the diagnostic commands
described in this guide. Some of the diagnostic commands report information about internal hardware settings
and registers that is relevant primarily to HP engineering staff. Consequently, this information is not described in
detail here.
The following table lists some of the tasks you can perform using the diagnostic commands:
Task
Tracing packets
Displaying AppleTalk information
Displaying BGP information
Displaying IPv6 information
Displaying OSPF packet information
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Relevant Commands
ptrace
debug appletalk
ptrace appletalk
debug ip bgp
show ip bgp debug
debug ipv6
debug ip ospf packet
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