Verifying fabric connectivity, Verifying device connectivity – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide

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Equipment status

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The possible fields and their values are outlined below.

Verifying fabric connectivity

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.

2. Enter the fabricShow command. This command displays a summary of all the switches in the

fabric.

The output of the fabricShow command is discussed in

“Domain IDs”

on page 28.

Verifying device connectivity

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account assigned to the admin role.

2. Optional: Enter the switchShow command to verify devices, hosts, and storage are connected.

3. Optional: Enter the nsShow command to verify devices, hosts, and storage have successfully

registered with the name server.

Field

Value

Slot

Displays the physical slot number.

Blade Type

Displays the blade type.
SW BLADE: The blade is a port blade.
CP BLADE: The blade is a control processor.
CORE BLADE: The blade is a core blade (Brocade DCX and DCX-4S only).
AP BLADE: The blade is the FR4-18i blade.
UNKNOWN: The blade is not present or its type is not recognized.

ID

Displays the hardware ID of the blade type.
See

Table 4

on page 44 for a list of blades and their corresponding IDs.

Model Name

Displays the model name of the blade.

Status

Displays the status of the blade.
DIAG RUNNING POST1: The blade is present, powered on, and running the post-initialization
power-on self test (POST).
DIAG RUNNING POST2: The blade is present, powered on, and running the POST.
ENABLED: The blade is on and enabled.
DISABLED: The blade is powered on but disabled.
FAULTY: The blade is faulty because an error was detected. The reason code numbers displayed
are used by Support personnel to assist with problem diagnosis. Review the system error logs for
more information.
INITIALIZING: The blade is present, powered on, and initializing hardware components.
INSERTED, NOT POWERED ON: The blade is present in the slot but is turned off.
LOADING: The blade is present, powered on, and loading the initial configuration.
POWERING UP: The blade is present and powering on.
UNKNOWN: The blade is inserted but its state cannot be determined.
VACANT: The slot is empty.

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