Configuration manual
1268 | E-Series ExaScale Debugging and Diagnostics
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Console output
The console output files contain console output of a line card or RP1/RP2 information to a file on the
internal system flash.
The contents are simple and contain basic failure details for and RPM boot failure or a line card exception
when a core dump was not successfully saved. The files are generated for the following exceptions.
Console output files are located in the NVTRACE_LOG_DIR directory with the name
show
console_lp[0-13]_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.log
.
•
yyyymmdd: year, month and day
•
hhmmss: hours, minutes, seconds
To locate and examine the console output:
• IPC time out • backplane link enable failed
• RPM crash • panda link down
• RPM goes into bootfail mode • short pin problem
• RPM bring-up failed • port-pipe down
• no check-in • heat shutdown
• backplane link not enabled • under voltage
• ping not working • over voltage
• IPC down • version mismatch
• task crash • CAM size mismatch
Step Task Syntax Command Mode
1 List the files in the directory.
dir
EXEC Privilege
Force10#dir
Directory of flash:
1 drwx 8192 Jan 01 1980 00:00:00 +00:00 .
2 drwx 512 Jun 17 2009 12:27:15 +00:00 ..
3 drwx 4096 Nov 09 2007 19:55:38 +00:00 NVTRACE_LOG_DIR
2 Change the directory to
NVTRACE_LOG_DIR.
cd NVTRACE_LOG_DIR
EXEC Privilege
3 List the files in the directory.
dir
EXEC Privilege