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a. Right-click in the Available Hosts table and select Expand All.

b. Select the hosts you want to collect data for in the Available Hoststable and click the right

arrow to move them to the Selected Products and Hosts table.

Technical SupportSave data for SAN devices is saved to the following directory:
FTP_Host\ftproot\technicalsupport\

5. Click OK on the Technical SupportSave dialog box.

Data collection may take 20-30 minutes for each selected switch. This estimate my increase
depending on the number of switches selected.

The Technical SupportSave Status dialog box displays with the following details.

6. Click Close on the Technical SupportSave Status dialog box.

Viewing the technical support repository

You can only view technical support save files that are captured in the default location.

Table 118

details the default locations for the technical support save files.

To view the technical support repository, complete the following steps.

1. Select Monitor > Technical Support > View Repository.

The Technical Support Repository dialog box displays.

Field

Description

Name

The name of the product.

IP Address

The product’s IP address.

Firmware Type

The type of product.

Progress

The status of the supportsave. On products running Fabric OS 7.0 or later, this field
shows the percentage complete and is updated every minute. For and Host products,
as well as Fabric OS products running 6.4 or earlier, this field cannot display the
percentatge (only displays whether it is ‘in Progress’ or’ Completed’).

Status

The status of the support save, for example, Ceases or Failure.

TABLE 118

Technical support save defaults

Type

Default location

Default naming convention

Client SupportSave

User_Home/ServerIP/Managed Product
Name/support

DCM-Client-SS-Time_Stamp

Server SupportSave

Install_Home\support

DCM-SS-Time_Stamp

Host (discovered
from the SAN tab)

Install_Home\data\ftproot\technicalsupport\
host

Supporinfo-HostName-Day-mm-dd-yyyy-
hh-mm-ss

SAN Product

Install_Home\data\ftproot\technicalsupport\

Supporinfo-HostName-Day-mm-dd-yyyy-
hh-mm-ss

Auto Trace Dump

Install_Home\data\ftproot\tracedump\

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