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● port all: Displays statistics on all party-bus internal ports.
rp Enter the keyword rp with a command option to display hardware statistics from
the Route Processor. The command options are:
● cpu data-plane statistics: Displays data-plane statistics, including the
HiGig port statistics with input/output counters to which the stacking module is
connected.
● cpu i2c statistics: Displays active i2c-address statistics.
● cpu management statistics: Displays management port counters.
● cpu sata-interface statistics: Displays sata-interface error counter
statistics.
sfm sfm-unit-
num
Enter the keyword sfm with an Switch Fabric Module (SFM) unit number and
a command option to display hardware statistics from the specified SFM on the
Z9500. The range of SFM unit numbers is from 0 to 5. The command options are:
● buffer {total-buffer | unit unit-num {port port-num |
total-buffer}: Displays buffer statistics from the total SFM buffer or from
a specified SFM unit. The range of SFM unit ID numbers is from 0 to 5. The
range of SFM unit ports is from 1 to 128.
● counters: Displays the counters for SFM traffic to troubleshoot an error
condition.
● details: Displays more detailed information on control-plane and protocol
control packet statistics.
● drops: Displays the number of internal drops on the specified SFM unit.
● port-stats: Displays status about why an SFM port is not brought up to
register level.
● register: Displays the internal registers for each switch fabric.
● table-dump: Displays the tables from the bShell.
Defaults none
Command Modes
● EXEC
● EXEC Privilege
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.
Version 9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
Version 9.2(0.0) Modified the drops keyword range, unit keyword range and added the buffer
and cpu management statistics options.
Version 8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
Version 8.3.11.5 Added i2c statistics and sata-interfaces statistics.
Version 8.3.11.4 Added user port information.
Version 8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
Version 8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
Version 7.8.1.0 Modified the stack-port keyword range expanded from 49-52 to 0-52; output
modified for the cpu data-plane statistics option; the following options
were added: drops [unit 0-1 [port 0-27]] and unit 0-1 {counters
| details | port-stats [detail] | register}
Version 7.7.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
Example
(Linecard CPU
Dataplane:
Statistics)
Dell#show hardware linecard 2 cpu data-plane statistics
HANSKVILLE Mib Counters:
TR 64 byte frames = 3
TR 127 byte frames = 358
Debugging and Diagnostics 547