Reference Guide

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://
Examples of the Diagnostics Commands
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
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0 Management online S5000 S5000 9-0-1-0 64
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