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FCIP troubleshooting
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1. Select Monitor > Troubleshooting > FCIP > Ping.
The IP Ping dialog box displays.
2. Select a switch from the Available Switches table.
3. Select a port from the GigE Port list.
4. Select an IP address switch from the IP Interface list.
5. Enter the remote IP address in the Remote IP Address field.
6. Click OK.
Ping sends four Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Ping packets to the destination
address and records the time until a response.
The IP Ping Result dialog box displays with two tables.
The top table (FCIP IP Ping Response Details) contains the following statistics:
The bottom table (IP Ping Details) provides details for each ping attempt.
TABLE 81
FCIP IP Ping Response Details
Field or Component
Description
Status
Always displays ‘Completed’. If there is a failure, an error message
displays instead of the IP Ping Result dialog box.
Packets Sent
Always displays ‘4. This is not configurable.
Packets Received
The number of received responses.
Packets Lost
Equal to the number of packets sent minus the number of packets
received.
Packet Lost percentage
The number of packets lost expressed as a percentage of the packets
sent. This will be 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% for 0, 1, 2, 3, or all 4
packets lost.
Minimum Round Trip Time
The shortest time, in milliseconds, of any response. If no response, the
round trip times is 0.
Maximum Round Trip Time
The longest time, in milliseconds, of any response. If no response, the
round trip times is 0.
Average Round Trip Time
The average time, in milliseconds, of all responses. If no response, the
round trip times is 0.
TABLE 82
IP Ping Details
Field or Component
Description
Reply From
The IP address of the device that sent the reply. For a normal response,
this is the destination IP address. Some error responses (such as
"destination unreachable") may come from an intermediate router.
Status
Displays either Success or an error message (such as request timed out
or destination unreachable) from the switch.
Number of bytes
The number of bytes in the data portion of the response. Should be 64,
matching the 64 bytes of data sent in the transmitted packet.