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CHAPTER 9
The Maintenance Menu
The Maintenance menu is used to manage dump information and forward database information. It
also includes a debugging menu to help with troubleshooting.
/maint
Maintenance Menu
Note – To use the Maintenance menu, you must be logged in to the switch as the administrator.
Dump information contains internal switch state data that is written to flash memory on the
RackSwitch G8124 after any one of the following occurs:
 The watchdog timer forces a switch reset. The purpose of the watchdog timer is to reboot the
switch if the switch software freezes.
 The switch detects a hardware or software problem that requires a reboot.
[Maintenance Menu]
sys - System Maintenance Menu
fdb - Forwarding Database Manipulation Menu
debug - Debugging Menu
arp - ARP Cache Manipulation Menu
route - IP Route Manipulation Menu
igmp - IGMP Multicast Group Menu
uudmp - Uuencode FLASH dump
ptdmp - Upload FLASH dump via FTP/TFTP
cldmp - Clear FLASH dump
tsdmp - Tech support dump
pttsdmp - Upload tech support dump via FTP/TFTP