Table 18 Port Type Support; Using The Spinfab And Porttest Commands; Debugging Spinfab Errors - HP SN3000B Troubleshooting Manual

Using the SpinFab and portTest commands

The spinFab command is an online diagnostics command to verify the ISL links between switches
at the maximum speed. It is done by setting up the routing functionality in the hardware such that
the test frames received by E_Port are retransmitted on the same E_Port. Several frames are then
sent to the port attached to each active E_Port specified. These frames are special frames which
never occur during normal traffic and the default action for such frames is to route them back to
the sender. These frames are circulated between switches until the test stops them.
CAUTION
During the spinFab testing, the switch remains in normal operation. However, some performance
degradation occurs due to the ISL links being saturated with the test frames. This test should be
run with caution on a live fabric.
Table 18
command.
TABLE 18
Port type
Loopback
E_Ports
Trunk Master ports
Ports beyond index 255
Ports with swapped areas
Shared-area ports
Ports in logical switches
Ports in base switches
Trunk slave ports
Long distance ports
F_Ports connected to Brocade HBAs
ICL ports
F_Ports connected to Access Gateway
EX_Ports
Ports in an Access Gateway switch
1.
required that the firmware version on the HBA is v2.1.1 or later.

Debugging spinFab errors

Link errors and tx/rx errors are seen when the spinFab test fails.
Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide
53-1002150-02
lists the supported ports for the specified version of Fabric OS when using the spinFab
Port type support
If you use the spinFab command to test F_Ports connected to Brocade HBAs it is
Using the SpinFab and portTest commands
Supported in v6.3.0 Supported in v6.4.0
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No Yes
No Yes
No Yes
No
No
No
No
1
No
No
No
No
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