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NOTE: The system reboots when the offline diagnostics complete. This is an automatic process. The following
warning message appears when you implement the offline stack-unit command: Warning - Diagnostic
execution will cause stack-unit to reboot after completion of diags. Proceed with
Offline-Diags [confirm yes/no]:y
After the system goes offline, you must reload or execute the online stack-unit <id> command for the normal operation.
2. Confirm the offline status.
EXEC Privilege mode
show system brief
3. Start diagnostics on the unit.
diag
When the tests are complete, the system displays the following message and automatically reboots the unit.
Diagnostic results are printed to a file in the flash using the filename format TestReport-SU-<stack-unit-id>.txt.
Log messages differ somewhat when diagnostics are done on a standalone unit and on a stack member.
4. View the results of the diagnostic tests.
EXEC Privilege mode
show file flash://
The following is an example of taking a stack unit offline.
Dell#offline stack-unit 2
Warning - offline of stack unit will bring down all the protocols and
the unit will be operationally down, except for running Diagnostics.
Please make sure that stacking/fanout not configured for Diagnostics execution.
Also reboot/online command is necessary for normal operation after the offline command is
issued.
Proceed with Offline [confirm yes/no]:
5w6d12h: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %CHMGR-2-STACKUNIT_DOWN: Stack unit 2 down - stack unit offline
5w6d12h: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %IFMGR-1-DEL_PORT: Removed port: Te 2/1-48
Dell#5w6d12h: %STKUNIT1-S:CP %IFMGR-1-DEL_PORT: Removed port: Te 2/1-48
The following is an example of verifying the offline/online status of a stack unit.
Dell#show system brief | no-more
Stack MAC : 5c:f9:dd:ee:ff:c0
Reload-Type : normal-reload [Next boot : normal-reload]
-- Stack Info --
Unit UnitType Status ReqTyp CurTyp Version Ports
------------------------------------------------------
0 Management online S5000 S5000 9-0-1-0 64
1 Member not present
2 Member not present
3 Member not present
4 Member not present
5 Member not present
6 Member not present
7 Member not present
8 Member not present
9 Member not present
10 Member not present
11 Member not present
-- Module Info --
Unit Module No Status Module Type Ports
-------------------------------------------------------
0 0 online S5000-MOD-12XETH10-F 12
0 1 not present No Module 0
0 2 online S5000-MOD-12XETH10-F 12
0 3 not present No Module 0
-- Power Supplies --
Unit Bay Status Type FanStatus
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S5000 Debugging and Diagnostics
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