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CHAPTER 9
The Maintenance Menu
The Maintenance Menu is used to manage dump information and forward database informa-
tion. 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
G8000 after any one of the following occurs:
 The switch administrator forces a switch panic. The panic option, found in the Mainte-
nance Menu, causes the switch to dump state information to flash memory, and then
causes the switch to reboot.
 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
igmp - IGMP Multicast Group Menu
uudmp - Uuencode FLASH dump
ptdmp - Upload FLASH dump via FTP/TFTP
ptlog - Upload file via TFTP
cldmp - Clear FLASH dump
tsdmp - Tech support dump
pttsdmp - Upload tech support dump via FTP/TFTP