Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this Document
- Product Overview
- Installing a Brocade MLX Router
- Installation precautions
- Installing 2x100GbE interface modules in Brocade MLX routers
- Installing a Brocade MLX-4 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-8 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-16 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Preparing the installation site
- Brocade MLX-32 router shipping carton contents
- Unpacking your Brocade MLX-32 router
- Installing a Brocade MLX-32 router in a rack
- Installing Brocade MLX-32 router modules
- Brocade MLX-32 cable management
- Accessing modules for service
- Installing power supplies in a Brocade MLX-32 router
- Connecting AC power
- Connecting DC power
- Removing Brocade MLX-32 router DC power supplies
- Final steps
- Attaching a management station
- Activating the power source
- Verifying proper operation
- Installing a NetIron XMR Router
- Installation precautions
- Installing 2x100GbE interface modules in NetIron XMR routers
- Installing a NetIron XMR 4000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 8000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 16000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 32000 router
- Preparing the installation site
- Unpacking a NetIron XMR 32000 router
- Installing a NetIron XMR 32000 router in a rack
- Installing NetIron XMR 32000 modules
- NetIron XMR 32000 cable management
- Accessing modules for service
- Installing NetIron XMR 32000 router power supplies
- Removing NetIron XMR 32000 router DC power supplies
- Final steps
- Attaching a management station
- Activating the power source
- Verifying proper operation
- Using Brocade Structured Cabling Components
- Cable cinch overview
- mRJ21 procedures
- RJ45 procedures
- Cable cinch with one group of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with two groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with three groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with four groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with five groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with six groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with seven groups of RJ45 cables
- Cable cinch with eight groups of RJ45 cables
- Connecting a Router to a Network Device
- Managing Routers and Modules
- Managing the device
- Enabling and disabling a DC Power Source
- Disabling and re-enabling power to interface modules
- Monitoring I2C failures on management modules
- Displaying device status and temperature readings
- Displaying the Syslog configuration and static and dynamic buffers
- MP Presence from LP Detection (Headless Router Operation)
- Rolling Reboot
- Line Module Configuration Deletion in Interactive Boot Mode
- Managing switch fabric modules
- Managing the cooling system
- Managing interface modules
- Monitoring Link Status
- Using alarms to collect and monitor device status
- Displaying MR2 management module memory usage
- Enabling and disabling management module CPU usage calculations
- Displaying management module CPU usage
- Removing MAC address entries
- Simplified Upgrade
- Managing the device
- Maintenance and Field Replacement
- Hardware Specifications
- Regulatory Statements
- Caution and Danger Notices
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Managing the device
Syntax: clear logging [dynamic-buffer | static-buffer]
Specify the dynamic-buffer keyword to clear the dynamic buffer, or the static-buffer keyword to clear the static buffer. If you do not
specify a buffer, both buffers are cleared.
MP Presence from LP Detection (Headless Router Operation)
On entering a state where the MPs go down, the chassis enters a headless state. The LPs are unaware of the MP’s state and continue to
perform. Hardware flooding traffic is processed and traffic is dropped that needs to pass through the MP. To avoid this situation, the LP
maintains the MP state and brings itself down in case no MPs are present as shown in the following table.
To know the presence of MP by LP, accounting of IPC and keep-alive messages from the MP are performed in the LP.
The current state of MP presence is displayed when you enter the ipc show mp-presence state command as shown in the following
table.
MP presence is toggled when you enter the ipc toggle mp-presence command.
Active MP presence is displayed for the LP as shown in the following table.
TABLE 34 MP Presence Detection LP State on Bringing DOWN the LP Card/Port
LP State Description Support MP Presence Detection
DOWN Line cards are
powered off,
when MP
absence is
detected.
LP supports
placing the line
cards in the
DOWN state.
1 LP cards will be power cycled and brought to the
UP state.
2 LP image will SYNC with MP image on boot of
the LP.
INTERACTIVE Line cards are
placed in
interactive mode.
LP does not
support placing
the line cards in
the
INTERACTIVE
state.
1 LP cards will be power cycled and brought to the
UP state.
2 LP image will SYNC with MP image on boot of
the LP.
Administrative
port DOWN
Ports on the line
card are placed in
the DOWN
administrative
state.
LP supports
placing the ports
on the line card in
the DOWN state.
1 LP cards will be power cycled and brought to the
UP state.
2 LP image will SYNC with MP image on boot of
the LP.
3 Ports on the line card are place in the UP
administrative state.
TABLE 35 MP-Presence States for Show MP-Presence State
MP Presence State
MP_ALIVE
MP_SWITCH
MP_SDS_CON
MP_WAIT
MP_ALIVE_DISABLED