Users Guide

Debugging and Diagnostics

This chapter describes debugging and diagnostics for the device.

Offline Diagnostics

The offline diagnostics test suite is useful for isolating faults and debugging hardware.

The diagnostics tests are grouped into three levels:

• Level 0 — Level 0 diagnostics check for the presence of various components and perform essential path

verifications. In addition, Level 0 diagnostics verify the identification registers of the components on the

board.

• Level 1 — A smaller set of diagnostic tests. Level 1 diagnostics perform status/self-test for all the

components on the board and test their registers for appropriate values. In addition, Level 1 diagnostics

perform extensive tests on memory devices (for example, SDRAM, flash, NVRAM, EEPROM) wherever

possible.

• Level 2 — The full set of diagnostic tests. Level 2 diagnostics are used primarily for on-board loopback

tests and more extensive component diagnostics. Various components on the board are put into

Loopback mode and test packets are transmitted through those components. Level 2 diagnostics also

perform snake tests using virtual local area network (VLAN) configurations.

Important Points to Remember

• You can only perform offline diagnostics on an offline standalone unit or offline member unit of a stack

of three or more. You cannot perform diagnostics on the management or standby unit in a stack of two

or more; if you do, a message similar to this displays: Running Diagnostics on master/standby

unit is not allowed on stack

• Diagnostics only test connectivity, not the entire data path.

• Diagnostic results are stored on the flash of the unit on which you performed the diagnostics.

• When offline diagnostics are complete, the unit or stack member reboots automatically.

Running Offline Diagnostics

To run offline diagnostics, use the following commands.

For more information, refer to the examples following the steps.

1 Place the unit in the offline state.

EXEC Privilege mode

offline stack-unit stack-unit-number

You cannot enter this command on a MASTER or Standby stack unit.

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