Dell PowerVault 56F (16P Fibre Channel Switch) - Manual (Page 106)

5-8 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

 

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NOTE: All ports on the switch must be connected or else the switch shows an error
condition. When running the cross port test, you must set the operating mode value
to 0 or 1. Modes 2 and 3 do not send out the ELP used to discover switches. If the
ELP is not sent, the switch does not know the port is connected to another port on
the same switch and the test fails.
If an error is encountered during the test, the error is displayed on either the front
panel display or during the Telnet session.
An error message would look similar to the following example:
310*11$5310*9%/$31(35310*R 1$5310*$1 (%=$5310*
(//#$0$5310*#$0$#5310*9%/$F/%*5310*30$05310*9%/$0;#($
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The spinSilkTest verifies the intended functional operation of the switch by sending
frames from each port’s transmitter by way of the GBIC and external cable, and back
to another port’s receiver at the full hardware speed of 1-Gbps. It exercises the entire
path of the switch. The switch must be offline.
Because the microprocessor is not comparing data on each frame as with the other
two frame tests, the
310*30$0 error is never reported during spin silk. However,
the other error messages defined for crossPortTest and their corresponding mes-
sages probably causes actions that are applicable to the spinSilkTest.
Pressing <Enter> while spinSilkTest is selected displays a reminder to take the
switch offline, if it is not offline. If the message is displayed, take the switch offline.
Pressing <Enter> starts the Spin Silk Test and displays the following message:
#4 ?9
4'4
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If an error is encountered during the test, the error is displayed on either the front
panel display or by way of Telnet.
NOTE: When running the spinSilk Test, you must set the operating mode value to 0
or 1. Modes 2 and 3 do not send out the ELP used to discover switches. If the ELP is