HP Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem p-Class - Manual (Page 102)

102 Routing traffic
Viewing routing path information
The
topologyshow
and
urouteshow
commands provide information about the routing path.
1. Connect to the switch and log in as admin.
2. Issue the
topologyshow
command to display the fabric topology as it appears to the local switch.
The following entries appear:
• Local Domain ID Domain number of local switch
• Domain Domain number of destination switch
• Metric Cost of reaching destination domain
• Name The name of the destination switch
• Path Count The number of currently active paths to the destination domain
• Hops The maximum number of hops to reach destination domain
• Out Port The port that the incoming frame is forwarded to, in order to reach
the destination domain
• In Ports Input ports that use the corresponding Out Port to reach the
destination domain
• Total Bandwidth The maximum bandwidth of the out port
• Bandwidth
Demand
The maximum bandwidth demand of the In Ports
• Flags Always
D
, indicating a dynamic path