Chassisbeacon – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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chassisBeacon

Sets chassis beaconing mode.

Synopsis

chassisbeacon [mode]

Description

Use this command to enable or disable beaconing on a chassis. Chassis beaconing can be used to
locate a failing chassis in a group of chassis. Use portBeacon to locate a failing port, and use
switchBeacon to locate a failing (logical) switch.

When beaconing mode is turned on, the port LEDs flash green at various rates across the chassis.
The beaconing continues until you turn it off.

Beaconing mode takes over the port LEDs. The normal flashing LED pattern associated with an
active, faulty, or disabled port is suppressed, and only the beaconing pattern is shown. Other
commands are still executable and functional. However, if diagnostic frame-based tests such as
portLoopbackTest are executed, the diagnostic LED pattern is interleaved with the beaconing
pattern.

Note

The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.

Operands

This command has the following operand:

mode

Specify 1 to enable chassis beaconing mode or 0 to disable beaconing mode.
This operand is optional. If no operand is specified, the current value is
displayed.

Examples

To turn chassis beaconing mode on:

switch:admin>

chassisbeacon 1

Chassis beacon success 1

To turn beaconing mode off:

switch:admin>

chassisbeacon 0

Chassis beacon success 0