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Commands For Basic FOS Troubleshooting

This document provides commands for basic troubleshooting of Brocade FOS switches. It divides the commands into categories for marginal links, zoning, licensing, firmware download, configuration, and log collection. The commands can be used to check port status, errors, connectivity, configurations, and collect support data.

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Commands For Basic FOS Troubleshooting

This document provides commands for basic troubleshooting of Brocade FOS switches. It divides the commands into categories for marginal links, zoning, licensing, firmware download, configuration, and log collection. The commands can be used to check port status, errors, connectivity, configurations, and collect support data.

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COMMANDS FOR BASIC FOS TROUBLESHOOTING


SAN SWITCH
BROCADE
F. MOHAIDEEN ABDUL KADER

Commands for basic FOS troubleshooting


There are lots of brocade commands that come handy when troubleshooting a fabric related problems.
We divide these into
MARGINAL LINKS

switchshow - Indicators like no light or In_sync will be displayed


portshow <port> - Provides report on errors on a port
porterrshow - provides gist of port errors, look for delta of counters
portstatsshow <port> - Provides details of port errors
fabriclog -s - Helps isolate flapping ports, look out for offline and online sequences
sfpshow - Provides information on SFP and their state, check for power

ZONING

cfgshow - Displays zoning configuration


defzone --show - Shows default zone settings
nsshow -t - Display name server entries with additional details
nodefind <alias> - To find specific device in fabric
nodefind <WWPN> - To find specific device in fabric
fcping <initiator> <target> - helps isolate end to end device connectivity and also an easy
method to validate zoning

LICENSING

licenseshow

FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD

firmwaredownloadstatus
firmwareshow
version

CONFIGURATION

configdefault - To reset switch configuration to default


configdownload - To download a previously uploaded config file
switchshow - Lists connection information as well first indicator of fabric segmentations
errshow -r - Look for config events, match events with list in Brocade Message reference guide
for suitable actions

fabstatsshow - flags any parameter mismatch during merging


fabricshow - Helps identify domain id conflicts and gives an overview of all fabric members
configure - To set correct switch and flow control parameters
portcfgshow <port number> - Display port configuration
portcfgspeed <port number> - Set or show port speed
portcfgdefaults <port number> - Set port settings to default
portcfgpersistentenable <port> - To enable port permanently
portcfgpersistentdisable <port> - To disable port persistently (across reboots)
portdisable
portenable

LOG COLLECTION

supportshow
supportsave

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