E-Series Terascale Debugging And Diagnostics - Dell Force10 C150 Configuration Manual

E-Series TeraScale
Debugging and Diagnostics
This chapter addresses
Chapter 63, E-Series ExaScale Debugging and Diagnostics for information relating to that platform.
In addition to the FTOS high availability features, E-Series and FTOS support several diagnostics and
debug features that are integral components to delivering maximum uptime. These features consist of the
following:
• Overview on page 1198
• System health checks on page 1198
• Runtime dataplane loopback check on page 1198
• Disable RPM-SFM walk on page 1200
• RPM-SFM bring down on page 1201
• Manual loopback test on page 1201
• SFM channel monitoring on page 1204
• Respond to PCDFO events on page 1205
• Inter-CPU timeouts on page 1206
• Debug commands on page 1208
• Hardware watchdog timer on page 1208
• Show hardware commands on page 1209
• Offline diagnostics on page 1209
• Important points to remember on page 1210
• Offline configuration task list on page 1210
• Parity error detection and correction on page 1211
• Enable parity error correction on page 1211
• Recognize a transient parity error on page 1212
• Recognize a non-recoverable parity error on page 1213
• Trace logs on page 1214
• Buffer full condition on page 1214
• Manual reload condition on page 1215
• CP software exceptions on page 1215
• View trace buffer content on page 1215

E-Series TeraScale Debugging and Diagnostics

TeraScale platforms. Refer to
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